New Post (145) : Dev’s Charming old world.
There will only ever be ONE Dev saab.
The evergreen Indian movie actor Dev Anand decided to add colour to his LAST black-and-white film and has just re-presented his 50-year-old film to the current generation.
It looks like it was shot in colour. It was 34 mm and now it has been transformed to cinemascope with latest digital sound.
Reason enough to look forward to the classic from a bygone golden era.
Two names that make Hum Dono worth a watch are (of course) heartthrob Dev Anand and his hugely talented bother writer Vijay Anand.
Set in the period of World War 2 with the backdrop of the India-Burma war, Hum Dono is NOT an out-and-out war film but …more of an emotional drama.
The central plot had classic conflicts ranging from the rich-girl-poor-boy formula to the highly memorable, stamped in time, identity interchange in the double-role premise.
However, while these may appear as clichés today; in the scheme of things in1961 these were still one of those newfangled plot-points which went on to be trendsetter and subsequently stereotypes in Hindi cinema.
Hum Dono in color brings back the “old world charm of cinema”.
Go watch it while it’s still on at a theatre near you.
But ( I catch myself asking with some sadness n hope mingled with angst ) will it bring back ---“the charming old world” ?
[…sadly no]
Watch it nevertheless !
I just did and enjoyed ...each moment.
Charlie Brown
