He survives only long enough to remind the weeping Vandana, at his bedside, of his dream of having a son named Suraj (“sun”) who, like him, will become a pilot and range the skies he extracts from her the promise to make this dream come true. The film’s most erotic song picturization thus simultaneously manages to encode the key elements of a perfectly dharmic Hindu marriage ritual, although it necessarily remains a scandalous secret, unsanctioned by family and “society.” The obvious ensues (off-camera, of course) and though the virtuous Vandana worries about it the next morning, Arun assures her that they will be formally wed in just a few days, when he returns from a flying trip to Delhi.īut alas, Fate is cruel, and the young airman’s plane crashes. Their paths soon cross in her hometown, where Arun begins to woo her more ardently and although she is the very model of maidenly modesty and deferral, her jovial and progressive father proves to have no objection to a “love match.” As she rides the narrow-gauge train through the mountains, she hears a young airman, Arun Varma (Khanna) on the adjacent motor road singing the amorous song Mere sapnon ki rani (“Oh Queen of my dreams, ”) while he eyes her flirtatiously. As it opens, Vandana is returning from college to her hill-station home, where she lives with her father, Gopal Tripathi, a medical doctor and widower. One need not have taken Hindi Cinema 101 to grasp that she is doubtless Innocent, but the film will defer explaining her “crime” for its first half, which unrolls as a flashback from her lonely prison cell. Its dramatic success as a “golden jubilee” film (one that played for more than fifty weeks in major urban centers) made Khanna a superstar and led to a string of hits in which he starred (many directed by Samanta or by Hrishikesh Mukherjee) between 19-when the actor’s career went into abrupt decline due to the advent of the Next and Bigger Thing, Amitabh Bachchan.Īs the credits roll, we see a radiant, white-clad Vandana being denounced in a courtroom, and (after tearfully refusing to speak in her own defense) being sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. When thinking of the dynamics of gender relations in India, I sometimes recall Garrison Keillor’s description of his fictional hometown of Lake Woebegone, Minnesota: “…Where the women are strong and the men are good-looking.” This could serve as a kind of summary- sutra for ARADHANA, a weepy drama of female self-sacrifice, buoyed by a famous Bakshi-and-Burman score, that casts Sharmila Tagore as the ill-starred heroine Vandana (a name that, like the film’s title, connotes “praise” or “worship”) and Rajesh Khanna in the double role of her lover and then son. Burman Art Direction: Shanti Das Cinematography: Aloke Das Gupta It is a big thing that the statue will be placed with lot of actors like Shammi Kapoor and Raj Kapoor," he said.Story and screenplay: Sachin Bhowmick Dialogue: Ramesh Pant Lyrics: Anand Bakshi Music: S. "It is not only a great moment for the family but for everyone.
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I know that he was great and still stays next to me."Īkshay said the unveiling of the statue was not just an important event for the family, but for everyone who knew the superstar, who breathed his last on Jfollowing prolonged illness. I don't know what happened to him and I still don't know. He had forgotten everyone, but remembered me. The note read: "I remember 10 days before my nana passed away, he was in bed. He was very close to him (his grandfather)," he said. "My son has written something and I want to read it out. Life with him was like a rollercoaster," she added.Īkshay read out a note penned by his son Aarav for the event.
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His courage, bravery and fearlessness even in the time of death can't be forgotten. His contribition to cinema was unparalleled. "I feel honoured to have known him and for being the mother of his two children," Dimple said while addressing a press conference here. Photo by Bhaskar Paulĭimple thanked everyone for "gracing" the event in honour of "Kakaji", as Rajesh Khanna was lovingly called. (L) Akshay Kumar, Twinkle Khanna, Dimple Kapadia and Zeenat Aman.