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Baazi |
Directed by | Moni Bhattacharjee |
Produced by | Tony Walker |
  | Starring Dharmendra Waheeda Rehman Johnny Walker Helen Shammi Keshto Mukherjee Manmohan Chand Usmani Nazir Hussain |
Music by | Kalyanji-Anandji |
Release date | 1 November 1968 |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Baazi is a 1968 Bollywood thriller film directed by Moni Bhattacharjee. It stars Dharmendra, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Helen. The music of the film was composed by Kalyanji-Anandji.
Storyline
The film (which, incidentally, was delivered by Johnny Walker's sibling, Tony Walker otherwise known as Kamaluddin Kazi) raises a ruckus around town running. This story is set in Goa. With hardly a pause in between, we are acquainted with an entire pack of characters. There's Joe (Johnny Walker), for example, who is a protection specialist and a seriously women's man. Joe stays at a lodging show to a Lucy Fernandes [Shammi, in a terrible hairpiece — awful hairpieces are the thing to get done in Baazi, (dis)gracing everybody from poor Waheeda Rehman to Manmohan]. Lucy is stricken by Joe, absolutely uninformed that her more youthful sister Susan 'Suzie' [Helen, who some way or another figured out how to steal away even quite terrible wigs] is additionally infatuated with Joe — as well as the other way around.
Joe with Lucy and Suzie
The film starts with Joe talking with his manager at the protection office. The supervisor is dubious about an insurance contract which has been purchased by a specific Mr de Silva. De Silva has protected himself for the incredible amount of Rs 2.5 lakhs, and the recipient of his strategy is his niece, Elizabeth de Silva. Elizabeth de Silva, ponders Joe? Why, there's an individual tenant at the Fernandes sisters' housing house, named Elizabeth de Silva (Waheeda Rehman). Might it at some point be a similar lady? Joe's supervisor says this should be explored in light of the fact that it sounds off-putting.
Joe and his manager have a talk
In the interim, the scene movements to Ajay (Dharmendra), a Representative Director of Police. Ajay is Elizabeth's beau [and, in a strange takeoff from the standard, we aren't blessed to receive endless scenes of phony contending, following masked as-charming, and an excessive number of insights regarding the movement of their romance]. Ajay goes to a cause show in which Elizabeth 'Liz' and Suzie are moving [respectively as Snow White and her evil stepmother]. After the show, Joe turns up, trimmed in misleading facial hair and hairpiece, making himself look like a writer and attempting to get a meeting with Liz.
Joe interviews Liz
The meeting, incredibly and disturbance, ends up being more about her uncle than her. Joe doesn't learn a lot, and is before long thrown out.
There's a concise recess where Ajay and Liz get drawn in [not at an extravagant party with Liz as well as Ajay playing the piano, yet near the ocean, without help from anyone else, with Ajay slipping a ring on to her finger]. Neither of them understands that an evil somebody taking cover behind an improved boat is watching them meanwhile.
A passerby watches Liz and Ajay
Accentuated by a few pointless and bothering scenes in regards to Joe, Lucy and Suzie and their monotonous circle of drama, the story presently continues huge amounts at a time. The day after they get ready for marriage, Ajay gets a wire from Liz, trailed by a call from her. Liz is upset and lets him know that the past night, after she'd returned home, she'd got news that her uncle was sick. At the point when she arrived at Uncle's home, she found that he'd had a coronary failure, and presently he's dead.
A call from a troubled Liz
Ajay gets Uncle's location from Liz, and sets off on the double. Little does he understand that he's being watched by somebody [Ulhas; we are never informed this man's name, and since there are others of his kind springing up from time to time, I will for arbitrary reasons appoint names. This one, along these lines, I name Obscure Character#1]. Further along, Obscure Person #2 (Jagdish Raj) has flung attaches the street; Ajay drives on, has a punctured tire, and is thusly deferred to some degree.
Driving on after fixes, Ajay prevents to request bearings from a passing motorcyclist . Obscure Person focuses him to a forcing and fascinatingly memorable looking manor down a somewhat desolate path.
Ajay asks a bystander for headings
When Ajay shows up at Mr de Silva's home, it is past dusk. Inside, he can't track down Liz, however he requires her. All things considered, a specialist [NA Ansari, so you can securely expect this is Obscure Character#3] shows up, and shows Ajay Mr de Silva's cadaver. Ajay has had the opportunity to gesture unfortunately when the doc likewise shows him Liz, who has fallen with the shock and is as of now done for. Zero chance of her assisting with Uncle's memorial service.
The specialist consoles Ajay
Ajay asks how he might help, and the specialist recommends he go to the congregation close by and search out the minister to sort out for the burial service: the sooner it's finished, the better, since Uncle's cadaver won't keep going longAjay is sufficiently lucky to track down the cleric (Nasir Hussain) outside the congregation. They have a speedy visit, Father Gonsalves communicates his compassion, and consoles Ajay that he will sort out for the casket, the pall carriers, everything.
So — while Liz actually rests on — Ajay goes to Uncle's burial service [at night? Not something I've seen] and sees Uncle ceremonially entombed, while the cleric clatters on in Latin and a lot of grievers stand around looking grave. Out of nowhere, an alcoholic gatecrasher (Manmohan, in a terrible hairpiece) shows up, sobbing and peering extremely awkward among the fit booted brotherhood. Ajay murmurs to the man next to him, asking who this rookie endlessly is informed that he's an unfortunate man whom Mr de Silva had been excellent to.
There's more available for Ajay. Back at Uncle's house, he finds Liz, presently cognizant; subsequent to reassuring her and telling her that Uncle has been given a fitting goodbye, he resigns to his room. Furthermore, watching through of the window some time later, sees a lady rushing away towards the close by burial ground. From this distance [and in the evening, as well? Ajay has extraordinary eyesight] she gives off an impression of being Liz, so Ajay trails behind… and thinks that she is sobbing on Uncle's grave. Poor Liz!
Yet, no. At the point when Ajay connects and contacts her shoulder, the lady whips around, and Ajay understands he's mixed up. The lady (Chand Usmani) is a finished outsider.
The following morning, when Ajay tells Liz of this odd experience and ponders resoundingly who this unusual lady grieving Uncle could be, Liz had heard bits of hearsay that Uncle had been having an illicit relationship with somebody. Who, she doesn't have the foggiest idea.
What Liz is more keen on, it ends up, is the cash she will acquire since Uncle has copped it. [For a Hindi film champion, Liz is shockingly hired soldier; she's out shopping and celebrating over her recently discovered abundance excessively soon for solace. With regards to lamenting for the beloved kindred, our young lady clearly trusts more in quality than in amount; one day's focussed sobbing and swooning away is enough].
Ajay, having called his chief and requested a couple of days' leave, stays on to comfort Liz [who, regardless, is more keen on going out to shop, whenever she's gotten a development on her legacy from the lawyer].
Liz starts to have a good time
While Ajay is there, a novice shows up: Joe, short his mustache [and with the expansion of a really terrible wig], considering himself Liz's cousin Joe from Britain. He tells Liz that Uncle had believed both of them should get hitched, which is the reason he's come. Liz owns up to Ajay that she has a cousin Joe in Britain, yet she's never at any point seen a photograph of the man, so this likely could be him. Anyway, allows Joe the opportunity to remain on [and apparently examine the case, however the scriptwriter appears to fail to remember that that is the justification behind Joe's coming here].
Cousin Joe turns up
When Liz appears to have adequately recuperated, Ajay reports back on the job and is given a case to be examined. A troubled elderly person (Nazir Kashmiri) had revealed that his senior child, Prakash, had disappeared. Prakash has a more youthful sibling named Rakesh, a rotter who had ventured out from home quite a while back. As of late, trying to take the lost sheep back to the overlap, Prakash had ventured out to meet Rakesh — and has vanished. No one knows where he is. The elderly person had detailed this to Ajay's chief, who had requested that he give a photograph of Prakash.
An elderly person records a report for someone who has gone missing
Presently the elderly person comes to meet Ajay, holding on for him a photograph of the missing Prakash. Furthermore, who would it be a good idea for it be, yet — Mr de Silva, whom Ajay has himself seen covered! Ajay is so floored, he poses a few senseless inquiries about whether this truly is the elderly person's child, a Hindu named Prakash, not a Mr de Silva? The elderly person is excessively sweet to punch Ajay and affirms that indeed, difficult to accept as it might show up, this is Prakash.
Ajay sees an astounding photograph
Also, Liz, when shown the photograph, excuses it. That isn't Uncle, not by any stretch. Also, she hasn't seen this man previously.
So who is it Ajay covered? [yes, well; Prakash, clearly, yet how could he wind up taking on the appearance of Mr de Silva?] Where could Uncle be? Furthermore, what in the world is continuing — since this isn't the first of a few baffling passings…
So far, Baazi is really engaging. A genuine whodunit, and one which brings up heaps of delightfully bewildering issues. Who are the obscure characters keeping an eye on Ajay as he headed to Uncle's house? Who was the puzzling lady crying over the fake Uncle's grave? How did Prakash wind up covered as Mr de Silva?
The miserable part is, the final part of the film — dedicated to the disentangling of the plot, really permits the plot to unwind. Totally, until one doesn't have the foggiest idea where's what. Significant plot focuses drop off the radar, openings conundrum the story, and you understand that there's a motivation behind why Baazi, regardless of having a good cast, is never referenced in the rundown of extraordinary Hindi tension movies.
What I preferred about this film:
Dharmendra and Waheeda Rehman, who look perfect, the last option in spite of a few not extremely complimenting hairpieces. Helen is wonderful, however unfortunately squandered in what is too short a job.
Dharmendra and Waheeda Rehman in Baazi
Also, a portion of the tunes, which were created by Kalyanji-Anandji. Baazi isn't one of those movies with a splendid score. However, several the tunes — like Aa simple hurricane slack jaa or Fundamental haseena
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Song |
Singer |
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"Aa Mere Gale Lag Ja" |
Lata Mangeshkar |
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"Main Haseena Nazneena, Main Sameena Mahjabeena" |
Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle |
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"Dil Toota, Roye Naina" |
Asha Bhosle |
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"Pyar Ki Yeh Baaten" |
Asha Bhosle |
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"Ek Anar, Do Beemar" |
Manna Dey |
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