Parvarish

Review By Kamal K

Superb, superb, superb .... A great entertaining film by great director, Manmohan Desai. He was the King of masala entertaining movies and this movie is full of his marks throughout! Excellent script, catchy camera work, extra ordinary shot takings, and engrossing direction, thrilled to watch action scenes. Superb acting by all. Great musical score by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Jaate to jaane jana is a treat to watch!

I had seen this movie so three times, and enjoyed it every time. It's a family drama, action packed thriller film.

Even new generation would find it interesting.

Watch it and enjoy it. It will also bring you out from bad mood, if any!

Vinod Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, the two biggest superstars of the 1970s in one film, a sureshot formula for success at the time. Amitabh was fabulous as the honest police officer who could do anything for his line of duty. However, the real star who steals the show is Vinod Khanna. His screen presence could not be matched by anyone, he meticulously did justice to his role of a suave, stylish but ruthless criminal bound by revenge. His dialogues, emotions and humour, all overshadowed Amitabh in the film. Both VK and AB, great actors with a great supporting cast in Shammi Kapoor, Kadar Khan (in his earliest villian role), Amjad Khan played their parts well. The only flip side is the presence of some boring scenes with both the actresses.

The movie was brilliant for its time. After the success of Deewar and Sholay, most of the directors kept the best roles in the movies for Amitabh Bacchan. Here as well, Manmohan Desai projected Amitabh as the honest good cop, intending all the sympathies and attention from the viewers but who steals the show? It's Vinod Khanna! Vinod Khanna was fabulous in the movie, he always stole the show even if the roles written for him may or may not be bigger than his co-actors. He is the ultimate grey shade hero of the Indian cinema. No one can beat his personality, his charisma, his style, the panther walk and his brilliance in adopting any role thrown to him. He clearly beats Amitabh here. The movie was the great Indian entertainer with the top two superstars of the 70s.

Parvarish (1977) : Brief Review -

Another instant mass connect film by Manmohan Desai in his or any director's most memorable year. 1977 belonged to Manmohan Desai like no other Bollywood director in history. 4 out of the of the top 5 highest grossing movies (Amar Akbar Anthony, Dharam Veer, Parvarish, and Chacha Bhatija) that year were directed by him (Hum Kisise Kam Nahin was by Nasir Hussain, another mass film-making it a mass year by all means). Has any Bollywood director ever seen a phase like that? Post release, Parvarish belonged to those chawl days of the 80s when two-hero films were trying to attract in the cinemas, while this one was a huge hit on VCR and later on TV. My father used to watch it in Chawl, then I saw it during my childhood when we were in Chawl, and now today, when I am shifted to a building flat 2 decades ago, this film still feels entertaining. The rift between brothers or the son and father was not new by 1977, so Parvarish does feel repetitive. We had Deewar and so many other films trying to initiate the same emotional breakdown between blood relatives, whereas a few other films tried the adopted son formula. Parvarish is a mix of both. It does the right thing to justify its title by making the adopted son stand against his own father because he has learned to stand with justice from the good upbringing he received from his foster father. The job by script was done, and the screenplay plays with the idea nicely and also adds some crisp with those two heroine characters with all that con stuff. You need a couple of hit songs, and we have "Jaate Ho Jaane Jaana," but the second one, I am not sure. Desai makes it formulaic for the audience's sake, and he was right with his conviction. It doesn't matter if Parvarish is not termed a great film over the years-deservingly-but it is a good entertainer-deservingly. "Duniya ka koi bhi kanoon ek patni ko apne pati ki jeb katne se nahi rok sakta" was an inspiration to the crores of wives. Crying emojis.

RATING - 6.5/10*

By - #samthebestest.

Brilliant movie, trend setter for the future movies to follow. It was a huge blockbuster and had two of the biggest superstars who were ruling the box-office at that time. Amitabh and Vinod. Great performances by Shammi Kapoor, Kadar Khan and the rest of the cast. Nitu Singh and Shabana were good as well, however the one who stood out was Vinod Khanna. His role was more important than Amitabh's. Amitabh's role had just one shade into it, Vinod had to change the shades and emotions as the movie runs to the climax, he surely portrayed it meticulously. The grey shades in his role were captured by him perfectly. His screen presence, his persona, his acting, he really gave Amitabh a tough time. He was a trend setter and an icon which he proved in this movie. The movie rocked, surely some scenes look dated now but that is because of the fact that they have been copied over and over again by other movies in the last 40 years.