![]() Besides winning him the Best Director trophy from Filmfare, RKAM is keenly remembered for Laxmikant-Pyarelal's super hit songs like Hai hai yeh majboori and Main na bhoolunga. ![]() Roti Kapda Aur Makaan Manoj Kumar roped in Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman and Moushumi Chaterjee for his socially relevant Roti Kapda Aur Makaan which is about a man's eternal struggle to provide the three basic necessities of life in a world filled with unemployment, poverty and strife. Manoj Kumar plays a small but important role as Simi Garewal's beau in Mera Naam Joker, with his keen understanding and profound words (which he wrote himself), which influence the joker's (Rishi Kapoor in his screen debut) younger years and chart the entire course of his life. Mera Naam Joker Though the film's central focus is on Raj Kapoor's poignant life and times as a clown, the characters touching it are rendered equal importance. The actor lends the tense murder mystery some of his infectious energy with lighthearted moments opposite Nanda and Mehmood. Gumnaam In this reworking of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Manoj Kumar shares screen space with the likes of Nanda, Pran, Mehmood, Helen and Madan Puri playing stranded individuals on a remote island following a plane crash. Its hit songs Aye watan aye watan humko teri kasam, Sarfaroshi ki tamanna and O mera rang de basanti chola by Prem Dhawan and its leading man's gripping delivery continues to resonate nationalistic sentiments to this date. Audiences lapped the simplistic ideas of his script so long as Manoj Kumar packed it with catchy patriotism and mouthed applause-friendly punchlines to make his point.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |