Language: Silent movie
Genre: Comedy/Crime/Thriller
Cast: Kamal Hassan, Amala, Tinu Anand, Farida Jalal
Direction: Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Music: The background score is enchanting and adds to the charm of the movie.
Reasons to watch: Amazing movie, simple and very humorous, brilliant acting and direction
Reasons not to: No song and dance show, no skin show, no car chases, in short – a purely entertaining movie.
Storyline: An educated unemployed young graduate male (Kamal Hassan) comes across a drunken male (Sameer Khakkar) with a lot of cash in a briefcase. Hassan, being a poor , educated-but-unemployed fellow, falls for the money. He keeps Khakkar in captivity, and steals his identity to enjoy life lavishly. He moves to the hotel where Khakkar was staying and enjoys the luxuries of his newly borrowed life, albeit he’s grossly misfit. Love eventually enters his life as he falls for the Hotel’s visiting magician’s daughter, head over heels. But with money, comes perils, and he discovers that someone is after his life, well, after his borrowed life that is.
As the burden of his deeds lands on his shoulders, he must now choose between love and truth, happiness or reality. Does he survive this test? Well that is the crux of the movie.
Climax Handling: The end of the movie is brilliantly filmed, touching yet didactic.
Points: No dialogues yet extremely captivating, symbolism and humor in its purest and best form, this movie has few of the most comic sequences ever shot.
Rating: 9.5/10
Comment: A worthy portrait of India in the eighties, this movie is a milestone in Indian Cinema. Don’t miss this movie for anything!
