"Lion King you Lionk King (read it to the tune of -Baa baa black sheep), have you any awards?Yes sir, yes sir, three trophies full!One for the master of stupid films, one for the master of idiotic films,And one for the director who used to live down the lane".
Has any one watched the movie 'Clerk'? Its an 80's ka movie starring Heart-oj Kumar, Re-Eat and A-Mourning(Shok) Kumar. There is a classic scene in the movie whereby Shok Kumar suffers a heart attack and calls his young (60+) son Heart Kumar and says "Nahi beta mujhe doctor ki zaroorat nahi hai, mujhe bas two cell la do". Heart Kumar rushes to a nearby shop, gets the cell and plays this song on transistor - "kadam kadam badaye ja..." Shok Kumar listens to that song, starts dancing and within seconds the heart attack is gone! I wonder why do we have specialized heart clinics for something which can be easily cured by a song. Actually this is it...this is the solution that the US government is looking for to reduce their healthcare costs, just buy a transistor for all Americans. May be instead of "Kadam Kadam", the transistor there can play " We will we will rock you...". Heart Kumar has produced such other wonderful gems like Kalyug aur Ramyan, Shor and Maidan-e-Jang.
A few years back, I was watching an interview in Congress Ne (ko) Bech Chuke (CNBC) IBN in which a young and charasimatic boy was telling media about his new movie. "See its a simple story of a boy meets girl and they falling in love. We are introducing a new girl, 17 yr old xyz in the movie" "And who is that boy in this movie" - the journalist asked shamelessly. "Its me, who else" - said the young man. The only problem was that the young man was a 75 year old Babe Anand and that poor gurl should have been launched along with Babe saab's Great great grand son. Babe saab has amused and enchanted (though most of the time unintentionally) the audiences of all generations with movies like Awwal Number, Censor, Gangster and so on.
I don't know but whenever I hear the word "Dad" ( I call my father Papa), I am reminded of the scene in the movie Yalgaar where the 60 year old Fi-daily Khan calls the 40 something Bhisham Pitamah-Rishi "Dad". Fi-daily has been referred to as "Clint Eastwood of India" by some of the US newspapers as part of his obituary and Daily Khan made such gems as Prem-Aggan and Janasheen.
The common thread across these three wonderfully talented people is that actually they made really useless movies such as Pukaar, Hare Rama Hare Krishna and Qurbani early in their careers but then they had "Moksh ki prapti" from inside and they started producing these gem of the cinema like Clerk which has engraved their names on the history of great indian cinema in "Sunhare Akshar"
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