#nostalgia Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966) wouldve been Guru Dutts swan song as director — it was completed by Shahid Lateef (incidentally Ismat Chughtais husband) after his death. Of course, if he had lived, it arguably wouldnt have been his swan song at all, he wouldve probably continued to make his poetic melodramas lightly brushed with the kiss of death. Returning to the Dutt fold after her breakout film Pyaasa, Mala Sinha played a rich heiress whose unrequited love for her sisters lover (Tanuja and Dharmendra lay on the puppy love with cloying looks and secret notes, that for some inexplicable reason Sinha feels are intended for her) leads her to insanity in one final overwrought scene, full of hysterical laughter and incoherent ramblings, that reduces the film to irredeemable kitsch. No doubt Sinha was looking forward to chewing the scenery (considering she doesnt get the man), but it is a denouement that Dutt, known for subtlety even in the shrillest scenes (for example, the high pitched but hyper real Chhoti Bahu segments in Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam), would never have allowed. ✑ VP
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:25:21 +0000
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