Naya Din Nai Raat

Watched this movie on doordarshan well today's generation won't know that doordarshan played one movie every Sunday and TV was luxury the entire family use to sit together, including neighbours and kids from locality who did not own TV use to join. Sanjeev kumar is only actor in bollywood even though with average look & personality did some brilliant job, no doubt he was a good actor but can be said he was lucky too, no actor can match varieties of roles he played. He was paired with almost all top actresses of his time, he was the only bollywood actor who played hero, grand father, father, villian, comedian in movies releasing same time. NDNR can be appreciated for trying some thing different with sanjeev kumar playing multiple roles. This movie can be said is fun to watch. Jaya bachaan who with average look and personality mainly doing a simple girls role got to do some thing different here, bubbly with few comedy scenes.

Sanjeev Kumar's nine roles here represents 'Navras', the different moods of man as per the Indian art ethos. This is his film all the way. He play lover, a brave hunter, an epileptic, a coward, a transvestite, a drunkard, a poetic heart and so on. Now more than twenty years after his death, when one reassess Sanjeev Kumar, this film certainly stands among his best. Yet the sense of dissatisfaction remains as what else could be called among his best. Apart from 'Dastak', 'Andhi', 'Koshish', 'Arjun Pandit', 'Shatranj ke Khiladi' and a few others, his repertoire is not that full as it should have been.

Anyway, in this one you will find all that satisfy your entertainment gene. Film is an amalgamation of all the drama, a Bombay spicy movie is supposed to have. Being a Sanjeev Kumar show, there is hardly any scope for anyone else to do something, yet Jaya Bhadhuri is in good form here and its through her character the story is told.

Nice Sunday treat.