Amar (1954) :
Brief Review -
Mehboob Khan and Dilip Kumar's pathbreaking attempt at changing the innocent image of the quintessential Hindi movie protagonist. You might have seen many movies based on raped women, right? Well, here's the film about the man who raped the woman. Had he been a bad man already, he would have enjoyed it and killed the woman. But what if the man who raped the woman was not bad? That one wrongdoing, that one bad night, and even a man with great principals is destroyed over the course of one night. Amar is about that immortal guilty conscience he is going to carry for a lifetime. To make it dramatic and very well done, there is a love triangle too. The man falls in love with a teacher and is set to be married. But then, that one night changes his human conscience forever. He is not willing to marry her without informing her about his own sin because he doesn't want to feel tormented all his life. On the other hand, the raped woman is actually in love with him and is trying everything to save his dignity. She becomes pregnant and is ready to get killed, humiliated, and whatnot, just to save the dignity of the man she loves and respects a lot. Now, this part didn't go well with me. I mean, why would that girl respect and defend a man who has raped her? It wasn't consensual. Amar has a lot of drama in the last 40 minutes that might bore you today, but I guess, almost every Bollywood movie in the 50s had to go through this because the standard of filmmaking was such and it suited the contemporary audiences. There are too many songs that make it slow, again using the same contemporary filmmaking standard. So, as a whole, Amar still finds its way as a pathbreaking Hindi drama that broke the myth of a quintessential innocent protagonist who can never do wrong things. Gutsy, but very well attempted. I would have preferred a negative ending for timeless impact, though. Dilip, Madhubala, Nimmi-it couldn't get better than this.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Mehboob Khan and Dilip Kumar's pathbreaking attempt at changing the innocent image of the quintessential Hindi movie protagonist. You might have seen many movies based on raped women, right? Well, here's the film about the man who raped the woman. Had he been a bad man already, he would have enjoyed it and killed the woman. But what if the man who raped the woman was not bad? That one wrongdoing, that one bad night, and even a man with great principals is destroyed over the course of one night. Amar is about that immortal guilty conscience he is going to carry for a lifetime. To make it dramatic and very well done, there is a love triangle too. The man falls in love with a teacher and is set to be married. But then, that one night changes his human conscience forever. He is not willing to marry her without informing her about his own sin because he doesn't want to feel tormented all his life. On the other hand, the raped woman is actually in love with him and is trying everything to save his dignity. She becomes pregnant and is ready to get killed, humiliated, and whatnot, just to save the dignity of the man she loves and respects a lot. Now, this part didn't go well with me. I mean, why would that girl respect and defend a man who has raped her? It wasn't consensual. Amar has a lot of drama in the last 40 minutes that might bore you today, but I guess, almost every Bollywood movie in the 50s had to go through this because the standard of filmmaking was such and it suited the contemporary audiences. There are too many songs that make it slow, again using the same contemporary filmmaking standard. So, as a whole, Amar still finds its way as a pathbreaking Hindi drama that broke the myth of a quintessential innocent protagonist who can never do wrong things. Gutsy, but very well attempted. I would have preferred a negative ending for timeless impact, though. Dilip, Madhubala, Nimmi-it couldn't get better than this.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.