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Despite this indulgent direction, the film has moments of brilliance and grace. The wide Indian countryside is mistily evoked without calling undue attention to itself. Shashi Kapoor gives ironic strength to the role of the rich young Indian who mocks Hamlet's indecision but cannot force himself to choose between women. Felicity Kendal manages to be pathetically believable as the ingenue of innocence and insight. But it is Madhur Jaffrey as the film star who dances away with the show. Pale and supple as an ibis, she slithers through the film like an erotic ivory temple carving come...
...recently, Freelance Journalist Rajinder Kapoor dropped in at New Delhi's Coffeehouse, and lingered most of the morning. When he called for his bill, it totaled one rupee. He was astounded to find that the price of a cup of coffee had gone up from 45 to 50 paise, making two cups an even rupee (21?). Kapoor shouted the grim news to friends. "This is the last straw!" cried someone. "No, the last cup!" yelled someone else. Suddenly the customers were on their feet, protesting against the rising prices and calling for a boycott. Hastily finishing their coffee, customers...
Prem, a teacher at Mr. Khanna's Private College, finds settling down a most delicate matter. His family, he complains to a colleague, "have married me to a girl. She doesn't cook. She is not house-proud." As brightly played by Shashi Kapoor, Prem faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains...
Director Raj Kapoor's hero and heroine are two orphaned children, living with their sadistic prostitute aunt in the slums of Bombay. At her command, they spend their days in the streets and trams of the city, begging money in a squeaky singsong chant. But an old, kindly bootlegger urges them to the slum child's equivalent of the higher life: "You have been given two hands to work with. Start with small things first, and bigger things later...
...startling virtuosity. From her scrawny, seven-year-old frame, Actress Naaz somehow sums up the whole history of her sex, chattering happily as she works with her brother, huddling against him for warmth, patting his arm in a crisis and reassuring him, "I'll manage it somehow." Raj Kapoor trains his camera on them almost without a break, and they have rewarded him by endowing his film with the gentle luster of a miniature masterpiece...