Mera Gaon Mera Desh

okay, lets just put it this way: if you enjoyed sholay, you will definitely love this movie. if you watch the film you will see many similarities with sholay. sholay is considered to be one of the all time great indian movies because of its successful adaptation of a spaghetti western, great performances by the two main characters, and a super villain in amjad khan(gabar singh). this movie is also an "indian western", but instead of two heroes it only has one, dharmendra. his characters personality is a blend of veeru, and jai in sholay. this movie also has a villain, played by vinod khanna, in one of his finest performances, who is incidentally named "jabbar singh". may not be as good as sholay, but comes extremely close. if it were made after sholay, you would think of it as a nice rip off; however, it was made before sholay, therefore it is a trend setter. by the way this movie is complete on all accounts of indian cinema: it has a great story, excellent performances, and great music. satisfaction is guaranteed. also for some reason pratiggya, another super "indian western" is not listed in IMDB, check it out also.

Dharmendra has given one of the finest performances of his career in this movie.Its a hidden fact that Sholay, the epic of Indian cinema was partially copied from this movie. Mera gaon mera desh is a complete movie in itself including music, dialogue, story and action. I am die hard fan of Indian cinema and have not restricted myself to new movies only but love old movies as well. Trust me,this is a great movie. The songs of this movie were super hit during those days. The coin sequence of Sholay was originally taken from this movie. take my word and enjoy this movie. Once you will see this movie you will realize how much under rated Dharamendra was in terms of his acting.People loved his Greek Gods looks and considered his acting skills as above average. But after watching this movie and his other classics like pratigyaa, yakeen,aankhein, anupama,chupke chupke etc you will realize how versatile an actor he was.

This film is pure fun. In fact this is the picture on which great 'Sholay' was based. If Sholay had Gabbar Singh, this movie has Jabbar Singh as villain and that is Vinod Khanna, who looks every inch a bad man. Film is shot in a realistic manner and there is hardly any scope for superfluous dance sequences. Whatever music is there, is hummable. A song 'Maar diya jaye ya…'performed by Laxmi Chhaya near the end is one of the most popular melodies in Indian movie history.

Film has a good tight script, performances are also nice. The climax shot where hero Dharmendra stands in the heart of the village and challenges Jabbar Singh is scintillating. Camera work there is wonderful. Director Raj Khosla deserved to be among the very best of Bombay filmmakers of his era, it's a pity that he wasn't given his due. He has left an impressive body of work, though last few films of his career failed, yet his mark was there. This film is among his very best.

And a few words about great Laxmi Chhaya. This film has the best performance from her. She had a regrettably short film career and is not even remembered today. But see her here and you will never forget her. What a natural she was...

9 out of 10.

Mera Gaon Mera Desh is an action drama film, directed by Late Raj Khosla. The film stars Dharmendra, Asha Parekh, Late Laxmi Chhaya, Late Jayant and Late Vinod Khanna.

A former prisoner comes to a village and gets to know about the terror of Jabbar, he decides to stand up against him.

Wow!! What a film. I thoroughly enjoyed this stunning and somewhat underrated masterpiece from the great Raj khosla. This was probably one of the rarest film of Hindi cinema where the role of Villain is more loved and admired than the main leads.

The plot of the film is good and execution is superb. This was the film which probably gave birth to another masterpiece and legendary film Sholay.

The screenplay if the film is good and will keep you engaged. The film has some of the melodious songs such as "Apni Prem Kahaniyan", "Aaya Aaya Atariya Pe Koi Chor", "Sona Lai Ja Re", "Kuch Kehta Hai Yeh Saawan" and "Maar Diya Jaye Ke Chhod Diya Jaye"and another rarest instance where all the songs of the film were big hit and is still heard.

Acting in the film was another strong aspect of the film as all the characters were very impressive and were spot on in their respective roles. Climax of the film is good.

A must film for great songs and powerpacked acting.

There was time when in Bombay during ganpati festival we use to have road shows of movies for whole ten days, how eagerly we use to wait for this all the year. MGMD was one of the movies we watched sitting on ground in open air enjoying the dacoits. There was a time in bollywood when movies were made on dacoits on horses and that was so much of fun. Today's generation must be wondering what it must be all about. MGMD can be said one of the best dacoit movie made except Sholay which is a magic completely incomparable. Here we had Vinod khanna dashing handsome equally good compare to hero Dharmendra. Asha parekh as usual is good with her typical village girl costumes which was her trade mark. Location was different interesting, action compare to that period is terrific, music is good but here two songs "mar diya jai... " " Hai sharmau... " Is block buster and even today people remember it, mar diya jai.. Is well choreographed. After watching as a kind I wonder who this girl is, latter came to know she was laxmi chayya who will be remembered for years for this songs. Sadly she is no more. Dharmendra as usual looked dashing and this movie can be said will be one of his best movies. Even the song " Aya aya ataria... " Is well choreographed it can be said one of the best item numbers of 70's. If you want to enjoy bollywood dacoits dont miss it.