Angoor is being screen at the Kalaghoda Art Festival. For those of you who enjoy comedies of the likes of Jane Bhi Do Yaaron and the origional Golmaal, this is a must watch. From what I collect about bollywood comedies, I can clearly put Angoor into the cult.
Strangely enough Gulzar did not repeat his work at comedy film making after Angoor. Today while I was reading the schedule of KGAF I hit Angoor again. I had seen it for the first time exactly four years back on a dilapidated CROWN TV sitting over dinner with my family and it was a laugh riot. Then again once when my father insisted on revisiting Angoor and we bought the cd from our local vedio library to watch the movie on my PC, which he still cannot operate with ease. So he waits for me to visit him in my hometown so that we sit and watch movies. Angoor is one of the few for which I can get his company.
Coming back to Angoor, it is an adaption of the Shakespearean work “The Comedy of Errors”. Here is a summary of the comedy of errors from spark notes:
The Comedy of Errors-Plot Summary
The part of the confusion between the two separated twin brothers and their slaves has been depicted in the most hilarious manner within natural settings of a small town. Sanjeev Kumar plays the confused brother coming from a different city, who has been mistaken for someones husband and has been dragged into the bedroom of his brothers wife. While he is stuck in this situation his slave Deven Verma is facing a similar situation with the housemaid who is supposedly in love with his own twin and a companion of Sanjeev’s twin brother. All this while the real husband is out trying to get a Nau lakha Haar made for his wife. He is angry and frustrated and etcetra etcetra. In all the confusion the naulakha haar gets misplaced and the famous Indian police gets involved. Misunderstandings at their best.
The dialogues are minimal and timely. The early experimentation of the cult lines:
“Kya tumhare Baayein kandhe par til hai?”…
“Nahi!”
“arrey mere bhi nahi hain. Waah to fir hum dono bhai hue!”
A bespectacled Deepti Naval plays Sanjeev’s sister in law has her own charm in the movie. Utpal Dutt has the Fathers part to play. Moushumi Chatterji is the beautiful nagging wife. While the name ANGOOR comes from the fact that the twin brother of married Sanjeev is traveling to Dinkapur to buy grape farms. And even though this is his first visit to the town, everyone seems to know him including the Ticket Checker at the Railway Station, the taxi-driver, the Hotel Manager, local Police, a Jeweler. And thanks to that he is caught in twisted erroneous situations.
Therapy for a relaxing weekend. ANGOOR.
Random Musings 
Yeah…i watched the movie a couple of years back..liked it a lot!
Angoor was made after a bengali movie called ‘Bhranti Vilas’ which is based on Shakespeare’s famous novel.
@anirban : really!..i dint know.. nice movie..isnt it?
I love to watch this movie. I salute Sanjeev Kumar for his play in this movie…. His both roles were very consistent…