Tere Ghar Ke Samne

Ver well written. Superbly shot and edited. Terrific performance s, especially by Nutan and Om Prakash. Immensely enjoyable song picturisation. Even the climax comes in a superbly picturised and edited song. Timeless. Not much you can suggest to better it, even today.

You sometimes have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince, and over the years I've fidgeted through more than my fair share of Bollywood Blockbusters in the interest of film scholarship as they interminably stretched on and on into the small hours of the morning on Channel 4; usually taking an absolute eternity to tell a very simple story. The songs to me all sound alike, so I just fast forward through them. But as a stuffy Brit, I was never the audience these films were meant for in the first place...

However, my diligence paid off about twenty years ago when I stumbled across this beauty, which I absolutely loved! Even more remarkably it actually contains a song which I'm capable of humming! It's called 'Dil Ki Manzil', a vibrant cabaret number sung by Asha Bhosle and performed on screen by a statuesque young dancer named Helga.

Ironically, because of it's age - and it's in black & white - most of my Hindi co-workers have either never seen it or are only very vaguely aware of it. But it certainly gets my vote!

Though not very different from the many hindi love stories, this movie will always be remembered for its music. The songs mostly sung by Lata and Rafi are molodius and naughty. Dev Anand has Nutan opposite him for change and they work charm together. If you are a Dev Anand fan, do not miss this movie; if you are not, this movie has the potential to make you one.

Tere Ghar Ke Samne is all time enjoyable movie. Though it is black and white, it is very interesting movie. I appeal all people of all age to watch this movie at least once. The story is superb with happy end. Songs are also fantastic and will be liked by those who have got Rafi and Lata in their list of favorite singers. Devanand and Nutan are at best in their performance. Om Prakash and Harindranath have also performed well in their comedy roles. Music by S.D. Burman is very melodious. The dialoges are very comedy and film has been excellently directed. It has been directed by Vijay Anand. Vijay Anand has also directed other successful films like Guide, Jewel Thief, Jhony Mera Naam etc. Worth watching once.

Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963) : Brief Review -

One of the finest rom-coms from the 1960s and a great influence on Indra Kumar's Dil (1990). Vijay Anand has written a script that's not very popular but has been remade and adopted too many times. That's how influential it is, and it definitely stands the test of time. You must have seen Indra Kumar's Dil, where a boy and a girl fall in love, but their fathers are great rivals. Well, Vijay Anand did it long ago and much better, I feel. The film is about an architect, Rakesh Kumar (Dev Anand), who is hired to build a house by Sulekha (Nutan). They fall in love, but the problem is that their fathers hate each other and always try to put each other down. What's more is that Rakesh is building both houses, one for Suli's father and the other for his own father, and interestingly, both finalise the same design. That's how the title came, I guess-Tere Ghar Ke Samne. It was easy to get the song done with the same lyrics, but getting such a beautiful song wasn't that easy. There is another lovely song in the film that I know has become a cult: Dil Ka Bhawar Kare Pukar, and that too in Qutub Minar. Just wow. The film has some hilarious segments that I believe are some of the best for any comedy movie back then. The auction scene in the beginning, Rakesh being misunderstood as a goon by Sulekha, Rakesh trying to have a conversation with both parties at the same time, and so many others. The film has a fantastic comedy in the first half but lacks the same impact in the second half. Things go a little slow towards the end, but it was important to have such a climax for the 60s. You know that many parents think that they are smarter than their children, even though the children are much more educated and socialized. Letting them know that they were backward was the need of the hour. Vijay Anand did that for us, and that too through a romantic comedy. He balanced both commercial and social cinemas to very well. Enjoy it.

RATING - 7/10*

By - #samthebestest.