Samadhi (1950) :
Brief Review -
Brother vs Brother, Sister vs Sister, Boyfriend vs Girlfriend in Bollywood's most ICONIC Spy Action Drama. First of all, let me finish with the two iconic songs. "Baake chore" is an evergreen stage song, and "Kadam Kadam Badhaye Jaa" is an arousing patriotic song forever. The third is not an audio hit but a video phenomenon. "Netaji ka jeevan hai" is a pathbreaking video number that glorifies Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's work and his legacy. Now, let me get back to the iconic storyline. It's a patriotic brother vs. A British officer brother; it's a patriotic sister vs. A Gaddar sister (who is against Japanese); and then it's a girlfriend vs. A boyfriend (twice). At the end, "nothing is bigger than the nation." Show me any spy action drama with so many conflicts and so many beautiful screenplay segments. In today's time, you only have to get one thing right to make a good movie, and then there is this movie, which got 4-5 things right and also added a superb emotional and patriotic touch. The film sees Ashok Kumar as a member of Azad Hind Sena, who is working for Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, but his own brother is working for the British army. He falls in love with Lily, whose elder sister is working for the British government. The brother is pitted against the brother, and the sisters are pitted against each other. What's more interesting is that these four are linked to each other and always face each other in war-type situations, only to blame their "fate." Can they change it? The beginning, the first big twist by the intermission point, the second half plotting, and then the climax-the film has perfect set-up, perfect flow, and perfect execution of the event. After Shaheed (1948), this was a perfect follow-up vehicle for direct Ramesh Saigal. Such films were so important at that time when the youth were just getting started with the enjoyment of freedom and weren't really aware of the sacrifices made by the martyrs.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.
