Reviews

This film was made during action, violence and cheap Mahala films' age, but it was the guts of Rajesh Khanna who performed in such a nice film during totally negative environment. The character of a honest postman was portrayed by him superbly and the song Dakia Dak Laya can only match with him in Indian cine world. A real all time family household film, which can be watched with daughter to grand-mother without any hesitation. In my opinion today's generation of stars never think over to perform in such type of sober films, which has no cheap duologue, song or item dance etc. No such type of film is found in the career of the so called Big B (?), or SRK or Hrithik etc. Actually no director can even imagine them to perform in such type of sober characters.

Dard is a completely standard social movie produced during the age of action, sex, violence era. The story of the film is so emotional that fully justifies its title Dard. And to portrait its central character: a double role of Father-Son in a versatile manner, there is no alternative except Rajesh Khanna himself. There is no doubt that nobody else except him can justify the emotional father and stylish foreign returned son so effectively and life like natural way. After Aradhana, Rajesh Khanna again played a double role of Father-Son with tremendously brilliant touches of inner feelings of human being. In the total film, it is unbelievable that the old prisoner/gardener and the foreign returned lawyer are the same person; what a classic performance by a classic actor. The other performers of the film are as usual as per their limitations; but Late Mazhar Khan deserves special mention. He also performed very well in aged role villain. Overall the film is excellent in term of story, songs, direction, and above all classic characterization of Father-son by Rajesh Khanna.

Yes, this is the grand film of the Super star Rajesh Khanna, which brought him back commercially in the lime light during the most down trodden trend of Hindi commercial film world. About 90% films were picturised during that time on action, sex, violence without acting, especially Amtibah brand cheap entertaining films. During completely adverse environment,Super Star Rajesh Khanna characterized a glorious characterization in this film with a completely brilliant depth touches of human feelingsand proved that the genuine extraordinary talent can not be suppressed longer. The character played by him in this film is slightly with negative touch and most of the scene performed by him were simply excellent. Special mention is required here to signify the scene, where he returned his own home after being insulted by Sabana Azmi and he went upstairs; his facial expression is classic in this scene.

Actually this particular scene is based only his classic extraordinary excellent facial expression as there was no dialogue in the scene. Apart from this, he entered an excellent glamour in the character, which only suited on him. The overall story of the film is most ordinary, but the class acting of Mr. Khanna made this film extra ordinary. Other performers of this film are also very good with their limitations/scope. But this film is basically centrally oriented around Rajesh Khanna and he proved the fact that he really deserves for this. It is surprising why Best Actor Award has not been extended to him for this film.

It is one of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee classics of all time Hindi film world. The storyline of this film is of very high standard in comparison with usual Bombay films. It is a very sober social film with simple living and high thinking. There have been a lot of discussions, controversies, etc. about Rajesh-Amitabh comparison in terms of acting calibre. In my opinion in this film, Rajesh Khanna has very ably portrayed the middle class character of Somu, who is completely depended upon his rich friend financially and later changed as a serious factory mechanic and gradually turns as trade union leader,called Chander when mixed up with labourer society. Rajesh Khanna always proves himself as an unparallel actor when different shades of one particular character is characterized by him. And the Namakram is not an exception. On the other hand Amitabh usually repeats his angry young man image, little bit more loud. However, he has shown some standard expression in one or two scenes at Jail. In brief in this film we find Rajesh Khanna as usual as a complete character called Somu/Chander, but Amitabh as the well known Angry Young Man, just like Janjeer, Deewaar, etc.

The film contains very good story with classic performance of Rajesh Khanna in a negative role (till interval) and then as a changed person with positive thinking. Rajesh Khanna played both the contradictory shades of the character in this film as a superb performer with brilliant depth touches of inner feelings of human being and it is beyond doubt that no other Indian actor/star would have been able to do real justice with this character in his comparison. The proudy look, which he reflects through his facial expression is an outstanding example for Indian film world. At the same time his facial expression in the Hospital, where he was admitted during his blind-ness, occurred due to an accident, is simply brilliant, wherein he shows his helplessness due to non-availability of pair of eyes to be transplanted in him. This scene can not be expressed with words, it is only a depth feeling of any human being.

This film is one of the high standard films based on the life of Police officer. But this film is completely different in comparison with other formula Hindi films, which mostly contain unnecessary sex, violence, action, etc. It is a pure social film which highlights the clean image of a police officer in true sense. To characterize the character of a honest and duitiful Police Officer with high moral, Super Star Rajesh Khanna was the most deserving choice of the Director of the Film. Mr. Khanna characterize this character with great depth as usual according to his extra-ordinary acting calibre, which makes any character life like and natural. No other actor would have been able to establish the personality of Mr. Ashok Sharma, a great Police Officer on the silver screen, with such high quality performance.

This is an another classic film of Rajesh Khanna with the same director (Mr. Mohan Kumar) after all time classic Avataar. But the most significant fact is to watch in this film, the classic performance of Mr. Khanna in a completely different way of characterization that no body can say that this is the same old man of Avataar. This 'otherness' can only be seen in Rajesh Khanna so far as Indian movies are concerned. It is so because his way of expressing a character just comes directly through heart, which makes every character natural and life like. The characterization of Mr. Amrit Lal is not an exception. Here we again watch our beloved Super Star Actor with a very strong performance played with the another great Late Smita Patil instead of another great Shabana Azmi (Avataar).I rate this movie as an excellent one, as it truly portrays the social image of average Indian family in real sense.

This film is inspired on the real life tragedy of Late Guru Datt Saheb. While viewing this film, one has to feel by heart that the character portrayed by Mr. Khanna is a landmark for a classic performance Indian cinema has ever produced. One can not even imagine this character to be characterized in such depth except Mr. Rajesh ji. It is not out of place to mention here that he has won the Best Actor Award at Ujvegistan for this film, for which he is most genuinely deserved. Moreover, in every angle, this film must be categorised under the all time classic artistic Indian films. I must appreciate the fact especially because it is the capability of only Mr. Khanna that he had shown his boldness to accept this challenging role without thinking its box report result, when cheap trend Amitabh brand multi starry formula films were dominating the box office.

The Film Red Rose contains nothing except to an extraordinary characterization of a completely negative mentally disturbed character. To characterize this character, Rajesh Khanna has been able to show his infinite range of acting calibre owing to the particular reason that he characterized this totally negative tone character without any help of make-up or light effect and any kind of artificial technique, except to his classic facial expression. And this makes him an unparalleled classic actor of Indian cinema, who can not be compared with any body. Being the First super star of the nation with historic world famous romantic image, it is an unique example for the Indian film world that up-to what extent any actor can reach with sheer dedication to be able to break shackle of his own image. The last scene of this film where the character played by Mr.Khanna became abnormal mentally and was behind the bar, was an landmark example of facial expression for any actor.

I have seen several times this film and every time I feel through my heart that without the super performance of the Super Star of the Indian cinema, the film would have not such solid impact on the audience. A number of scenes are especially appreciable where the super performance word fits most genuine. The Railway Platform scene, The Airport scene and the ending shot taken on the facial expression of the greatest super star-actor of all time of the Indian film world.It is a truth that nobody except Mr. Rajesh Khanna can perform and present such excellent facial expression on the silver screen. The story/plot is also most uncommon in comparison to the main stream films of that era. Overall I judge this film as one of the Rajesh Khanna Standard films of Golden Era.

This is an excellent movie central characterized by the Super Star Actor and Pride of the Film Industry- Mr. Rajesh Khanna, the king of love and emotion. The character characterized by him in this film as a Riksha Pooler is an unique example of classic performance. No body in the Indian cinema would have been able to do justice with this character, which is full of emotion and human relation based only on humanitarian ground. In my opinion, it is one of the landmark films of Rajesh Khanna, where he performed a character, which is totally non-glamorous character. It is unbelievable that it is the same performer who performed in the glamorous characters in Prem Nagar, Amar Deep, Dhanwaan, Red Rose, etc.

This film was the true Rajesh Khanna standard film just like other standard movies of the First Super Actor of Hindi movie. It is also appreciable because this high standard film was made during most disgraceful period of Hindi movie production, consisting of sex, violence, cheap comedy,etc. of Amitabh Brand films. It is only the credit of Super Star Rajesh Khanna to perform in such a beautiful film during action and cheap dialogue based formula films' era. The subject as well as performance of all performers of the film especially Rajesh Khanna and Smita Patil were excellent. Overall I judge the film as an excellent film because it contains very good social message for its viewers.