Saturday, July 19, 2014

Jaanwar (1965)

Sunder (Shammi Kapoor) and Mahendra Srivastav (Rehman) are two sons of a vainglorious businessman (Prithviraj Kapoor) and his loving wife (Achala Sachdev). Here you can see Mahendra hemmed in by his unreasonable father and a bust of his father,


and here a framed picture looms over his girlfriend, Seema (Shyama), whom he has not gotten the courage to bring to his father yet.


Sunder, the younger son, is the sort of guy that girls at college fight over who gets to pick up his fallen books.


He is less abused by their father, but even he is intimidated. He uses another bust, this one in their home, to practice saying things to his father.


Even with the practice, he still only barely gets out what he wants to say between his father telling them all about his plans for them.


Still, he does get the permission, and he heads off with his goofy friend Chintu (Rajindernath) to Kashmir for his tournament. On the train, he gets off to refill his water bottle, and accidentally gets on in the wrong compartment -- a compartment full of pretty girls! They give him a hard time, but he still makes a good impression.


It turns out that the girls are going to the same tournament Sunder is going to, and a little room mix-up occurs at the hotel as well. Sunder is put in room 209, but as the door shuts the 9 flips upside down so it looks like a 6, and the girls are, of course, supposed to be in room 206. Sapna (Rajshree), mistakes Sunder's room for hers and comes in and takes a shower. Sunder gets back at the girls by having them apologize before he lets Sapna go.


Not long after that, Sunder begins romancing Sapna, who is still annoyed at him for giving her a hard time.


Meanwhile, Chintu wins over Sapna's adorable friend Radha (Madhavi),


and it doesn't take too long before Sunder get's Sapna to admit she like him, too. She also admits that she's poor and has only been wearing borrowed finery for her trip. Sunder assures her he doesn't care about that.


Unfortunately, his father will.

Chintu and Radha's romance goes off without a hitch, but not even Mrs. Srivstav's interference can stop Mr. Srivstav from blowing up when he learns of the romances of his two sons.


Mahendra, who has always been abused and is rather weak, eventually cracks while on a business trip in Calcutta, (where his father's portrait still looms overhead).


His associate takes him to a brothel, where Mahendra dives headlong into vice to try to hide from his problems.


Sunder, then, is left with the task of rescuing his family, but this puts his own romance in jeopardy.


Does he save his family? Does he win his love? Watch the movie to see! (But, obviously, of course he will!)


I think it's pretty fun. Enjoy!

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