Parvarish (1977) :
Brief Review -
Another instant mass connect film by Manmohan Desai in his or any director's most memorable year. 1977 belonged to Manmohan Desai like no other Bollywood director in history. 4 out of the of the top 5 highest grossing movies (Amar Akbar Anthony, Dharam Veer, Parvarish, and Chacha Bhatija) that year were directed by him (Hum Kisise Kam Nahin was by Nasir Hussain, another mass film-making it a mass year by all means). Has any Bollywood director ever seen a phase like that? Post release, Parvarish belonged to those chawl days of the 80s when two-hero films were trying to attract in the cinemas, while this one was a huge hit on VCR and later on TV. My father used to watch it in Chawl, then I saw it during my childhood when we were in Chawl, and now today, when I am shifted to a building flat 2 decades ago, this film still feels entertaining. The rift between brothers or the son and father was not new by 1977, so Parvarish does feel repetitive. We had Deewar and so many other films trying to initiate the same emotional breakdown between blood relatives, whereas a few other films tried the adopted son formula. Parvarish is a mix of both. It does the right thing to justify its title by making the adopted son stand against his own father because he has learned to stand with justice from the good upbringing he received from his foster father. The job by script was done, and the screenplay plays with the idea nicely and also adds some crisp with those two heroine characters with all that con stuff. You need a couple of hit songs, and we have "Jaate Ho Jaane Jaana," but the second one, I am not sure. Desai makes it formulaic for the audience's sake, and he was right with his conviction. It doesn't matter if Parvarish is not termed a great film over the years-deservingly-but it is a good entertainer-deservingly. "Duniya ka koi bhi kanoon ek patni ko apne pati ki jeb katne se nahi rok sakta" was an inspiration to the crores of wives. Crying emojis.
RATING - 6.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.
