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.
