"RANGEELA" -
Classic Hindi Movie Review By "Your Prabhu"
"RAM GOPAL VERMA" Presents
"RANGEELA". URMILA, AMIR KHAN, JACKIE Stars in
a two and half hour entertainment movie. Music by A.R.
REHMAN. A movie that broke all Block Buster records and
was listed in Top 10 Movies for more than Six months, A movie
that boosted Hindi movie Culture in South, A movie that
Entertained every one from Six to Sixty with its not stop action.
Enjoy my movie review on "Block Buster hit of Last
Decade" URMILA in "RANGEELA".
OVERVIEW:
I think i watched this movie in "DEVI
theatre" in Madras with my friends after seeing
"YAYE RE YAYE RE" song. The theatre was full
of action and each and every single person in the theatre really
enjoyed the movie. Only after this movie the "HINDI MOVIE
CULTURE"
started in Madras. Before this movie people who know HINDI or
People who are from North used to watch Hindi movies going to
theatre. But after RANGEELA all these Rickshaw Guys, Auto
Guys, PERAMBUR LE "PAL ATHRAVAN" and even the guys who
used to sell SUNDAL in Marina Beach started watching HINDI
Movies. If you dont know "RANGEELA
URMILA" there is no point being in MADRAS and people will
stare at you from top to bottom.
STORY:
The story starts with a dream song by a sweet girl whose dream
and aim is to become a super heroine one day and who is doing
Extra characters in Mumbai movie industry. URMILA comes with a
Rose short gown and A.R. REHMAN starts his action with
his Life time hit song "YAYE RE YAYE RE Song" and
URMILA dancing with few extras. That's it the theatre was full of
Sound and Papers flying here and there and Madras Whistle... I
think this one song is enough for the money you paid for the
ticket. AMIR KHAN gets introduced as a Person who sells movie
tickets and who is friend of URMILA. The movie runs for another
half hour projecting the dream of a sad girl and the relation
between "AMIR & URMILA". A touch
of class by "RAM GOPAL VERMA" who
Projects the relation in a friendly way but both falling in Love
with each other. JACKIE gets introduced as a "Super
Hero" in the movie industry and who acts as a hero in a
movie in which URMILA
is acting as an extra artist.
JACKIE happens to meet URMILA when she was practicing her dance
in a sea shore and he recommends her to be the heroine of the
movie. URMILA runs to AMIR to say that she got a chance to act as
an heroine .. and AMIR who shows his disinterest as he starts to
feel that she is going away from her. The Scenes were made in a
real way that anyone who watch the movie will just get involved
in it. Slowly JACKIE starts to move closely with URMILA and AMIR
feeling odd about it. And a life time "MAST" song for
our Jollus and Lollus comes as a dream song as URMILA runs in her
famous beach wear with Jackie driving a sports bike in my life
time favorite song with Asha's sweet voice "THAN HA
THAN HA YAHAN KO BE HE KOYE BATH HAIN....." What
else can you expect in a movie with AR REHMAN, ASHA and a Dance
by URMILA in a Sea Shore.
URMILA becomes a big artist with JACKIE supporting her in each
and every way. But URMILA still had that Soft corner on AMIR her
old friend and She even does'nt know that she is in Love with
him. AMIR feeling odd for what ever URMILA says as he thinks that
he was more happy with her when she was a small artist and he
thinks that JACKIE is taking over....
At last the movie gets over and Urmila gets a letter from Amir
saying that he is leaving the city when Jackie was about to
Propose Urmila. Then the same usual search and Urmila and Amir
pairs giving a big Thirunelveli halwa to Jackie.
URMILA:
A mind blowing female of Last decade who captured hearts of
millions of Young Indian Movie fans although she is not up to the
mark
of big artist like Sree devi or Maduri and who was still able to
compete with them. I think RAM GOPAL VERMA and URMILA combination
worked out pretty good and they gave lots and lots of hits like RANGEELA,
MAST, DAUD and lot other Telugu movies. After this movie
if you walk in Madras without knowing "RANGEELA URMILA"
people will stare at you and you will be listed as "
VICE PRESIDENT OF ALL INDIA FROOT ASSN" and you will be
stamped as NCFFM PRESIDENT. For those who doesnt know
what is NCFFM Its a Kind of Fruit Category and it is
called as "NO CHANCE FOR FIGURE MADUCIFY" that
is those guys who come under NCFFM has no change of getting hold
of a female in their life.
In this movie in most of the scenes she comes with a two piece
made of two hand Kerchief One at the top and another one at the
bottom and dances like "LORD MURUGA dances with his
KOMANAM In PALANI" when he came in a Peacock to PALANI
fighting with his brother "LORD GANESA". But that Saree
song "PAYR YE JANA KAISA HAIN KYA KARE KYA KUCH HAISA
HAIN".. She was excellent with her Plain Green, White Sarees
dancing on a rock. Man it was really cool for our Jollus. Vazga
Urmila !!!
Here is one "C" IF LOOP I wrote few months before !
.... Enjoy
IF LOOP FOR HEROINS IN INDIA !!!IF LOOP FOR HEROINS IN
INDIA !!!
IF ( ARTIST = ' SIMRAN') THEN
SHOW_HIPS ;
ELSIF (ARTIST = 'RAMBHA') THEN
SHOW_THIGHS;
ELSIF (ARTIST = 'NAGMA') THEN
SHOW_FRONT_END;
ELSIF (ARTIST = ' MADURI DIXIT') THEN
SHOW_BACK_END;
ELSIF (ARTIST = 'URMILA') THEN
SHOW_EVERY_THING;
ELSE
THE MOVIE IS FLOP. LOOK FOR NEW HEROIN's FROM MUMBAI....
END IF;
AMIR KHAN & JACKIE:
Amir who came big after his first movie "Qwyamat Se Qwyamat
Thak" is still an accepted hero with his good acting and not
much
of
over action. I think he is one of the best looking heros in the
industry. In this movie he comes as a sad lover of URMILA and has
done a great job. JACKIE who started with his hit movie HERO in
1984 is another good hero compared to any other Heros in Mumbai.
But i still hate that flute song in HERO in which Jackie will be
holding a Flute and singing a sad song. He exactly looked like a
snake catcher in that movie."MYLAPORE LE MAGUDI
ODARAVAN MADIRI IRUNDAN". He looked like a person
who plays MAGUDI to catch snake in Mylapore. But he really
improved a lot after his first movie and he is one of the ARNOLD
of MUMBAI.
LOLLU COMMENTS:
A very simple story made into a big hit. Its possible only by big
directors like RAM GOPAL VERMA or SUBASH GHAI or
MANIRATHNAM. They know what people like and they exactly
deliver in the way people want. Regarding RAM GOPAL VERMA he gave
lots and lots of hits with SREE DEVI in telugu and then he found
URMILA and this combination really works good although we don't
know what's happening in the back gound. AR REHMAN came out big
in this movie and i think it was his first step in Hindi movie
industry. All songs were simply superb especially that "THAN
HA THAN HA" and "PYAR HEY JANE KAISA HAIN SONG"...
I still remember a PERISU which was sitting right next to me in
the theatre was laughing and singing and dancing. I think that PERISU
was 60 years old and he hardly had two teeth to bite that POP
CORN which he got for 1 RS 50 Paise in the interval and was
saying "SUPER BA.... RANGEELA BA...... URMILA BA....".
He was wearing a Vesti and a white shirt and it seems that he got
his ticket in block... Magane ... I think we need to shoot these
kinds of Perisu's who are roaming in Madras. "Savara
Kalathile Perisu ku RANGEELA thevaya'
At the same time one must appreciate the wave this Movie created.
URMILA posters were hanging around everywhere in Auto, Bus, Cycle
etc etc. Enjoy the Rangeela wave if you find time. Its worth
watching again in a video cassette and you will have real fun. I
grade this movie to be a superb movie with lots of fun and
entertaining stuff and Its worth to give 80/100 for this movie.
WITH LOVE,
PRABHU,
AUTHOR LOLLU EXPRESS,
COLUMBUS, OHIO, USA
www.lolluexpress.com
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