Shaheed (1948)Dilip Kumar! ♥ He's so handsome and young in this. This was even before
Andaz with Nargis and Raj Kapoor came out!
Before I talk about the movie I must point out that Shahrukh Khan looks a lot like young Dilip Kumar and I gotta wonder if Shahrukh Khan is a big Dilip Kumar fan because wow, Dilip's acting in this serious role is pretty much the same as Shahrukh Khan's acting in a serious role. I didn't really notice it before with other Dilip Kumar films I've seen.
I couldn't really find much out about this movie. The Wikipedia page has barely anything, and IMDB has even less. I don't even know the name of the actor who played Vinod. I thought I saw Shashi Kapoor as young Ram, but upon further reflection and comparing Shashi Kapoor as young Kewal in
Aag (also 1948) I see that it's not him. The kid playing young Ram in
Shaheed does look familiar though...
Ram (Dilip Kumar), Vinod, and Sheela (Kamini Kaushal) grew up together. As a child in the 30s, Ram believed in independence from the British. Vinod always said that one day he would arrest Ram because of these ideas. Both of them had feelings for Sheela, with Sheela always favoring Ram over Vinod. Now grown up, Ram is a revolutionary choosing the way of violence over non-violence, and Vinod is the crooked police officer fueled by jealousy of Ram and Sheela's love for one another trying to capture him.
Yes, another film of the revolution. I think I've seen too many of them. I find myself going, "INQUILAB ZINDABAD!" along with the people in the films...
Now, I'm not going to pretend that this is the greatest film ever, because really - it's not. It was a really good watch, but nothing I'm really itching to watch over again anytime soon, and I'm not really even reccing it. If you like Dilip Kumar and are a completist, than sure. Or if you're really into films about revolution.
Rating: 3.5/5
The Wonderful World Of Oz (1910)Oh yes... I went there.
The earliest surviving film adaptation of the novel clocking in at 13 minutes.
Now, it was... odd. Definitely not award winning. As a movie in general it's not that great, but I gotta give it credit for trying because... well... It was 1910 lol.
Like uhh...
A Trip To The Moon (1902). I don't think it's a particularly great film. I love it, I think its greatness comes from the fact that it was the first real sci-fi film
ever, and was about them going to the moon. This was 55 years before Sputnik-1, and 67 years before Niel Armstrong actually set foot on the moon.
I'm fascinated by these kind of things.
I can't give this one a rating, sorry. Just go
WATCH IT YOURSELVES.