Uran Khatola (1955) :
Brief Review -
Dilip Kumar and Nimmi's iconic love story with a spiritual and fantasy touch. Just a year before Uran Khatola, Bollywood was blessed with a similar love story, Nagin (1954). The same idea of Filmistaan's blockbuster was brought again by S. U. Sunny, but he added a slight touch of spiritual and fantasy elements to it. Those love stories you hear about getting together after death were established in this period, and Uran Khatola can be counted among those films. Sunny's film has a tragic ending followed by a spiritually happy ending, which we all dream of but can't experience since it's not a mortal world. The film is about Kashi, who, after a plane crash, lands at a tribal place called Sanga. Soni saves him from the plane and falls in love with him. Since the return ways are blocked for a while, Kashi has to stay in the village, and for that, he must get the permission of the queen, Raj Rani. However, things become messy when Rani falls in love with Kashi while he and Soni are planning to get married. With Rani ruling the place, Kashi and Soni must obey her orders, but a conspiracy by Shanu, who is willing to marry Soni, makes things take a tragic turn. We have a lot of high-voltage drama here that might seem outdated but was quite relatable for the 1950s. The film looks slow, and there are many reasons for it, with the major one being the quantity of songs taking over the quality. Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Jeevan, and Surya Kumari have done fine in their roles. The visual grandeur is noticeable. What we see in the first scene-that fantasy world of horror-should have been kept for a longer period of time. Sunny's direction is brilliant, as he brings a perfect commercial film with eternal and immortal romantic segments that were being loved at the time. Overall, a fantastic fantasy romance for its time.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
