Magic Sitar. How I love such bright, sincere, kind, naive, cute, touching films! It is completely shot in the genre of classical Indian cinema, in which the feelings of the main characters are the most open, the actions are the most honest, love is the most loyal. And the villains are the most insidious, the most greedy and the most envious. Movies in which good always conquers evil. This is a unique spirit of an era that, alas, no current Bollywood film can replicate. The atmosphere of warmth and warmth. Happiness and joy. But in advance, everything has been known for a long time, and you just enjoy the beautiful songs, the beautiful actors and the beautiful feeling of love that reigns there. Enjoy and dream and strive for the same devotional, airy, all-embracing love ... which can not be broken by any difficulties and adversity. You understand and understand that it is love. This kind of love is strong...
Classic films, beloved and familiar since childhood, I still watch only in the Soviet dubbing. Oh my God, what a dubbing that was! Separate art form! This is aerobatics (like the translation of books translated into the USSR by Soviet translators). You have to feel the actor. Dubbing foreign films in the Soviet box office was so professional, the actors picked up the timbre and intonation so that the voice merged with the screen image. Indian films were often given for dubbing at the Kiev studio. Dovzhenko
By the way, new films also prefer fully professionally translated and voiced (although recently the voiceover is not always high-quality and sometimes simply impossible to watch, but there are people who try in their work, and let the voiceover is one-voice, but made with feeling and responsibly, I also watch such films with pleasure. Thank you very much and give them a little thanks. Separately, listen to the voices of artists. But! But in order to watch and subsequently love the film, I need the film to be high-quality, professional, translated and voiced in Russian, period. I know all the arguments for the original, I know. But I reserve the right to watch Indian films only professionally translated and voiced! Especially when it comes to your favorite classics! The voice of our Hope Rumyantseva, immediately sounds in her ears with a crystal bell, when she duplicates actresses in films of those years, and how she laughs! Without this unmatched dubbing, the film would have lost some of its charm! It’s a pity that some movies don’t translate at all or only have subtitles.
Well, I was glorifying my favorite Soviet dubbing. I’m just really happy to always watch movies like this with such a great voiceover. But I'm moving on to the movie.
In 1984, all South Indian men fell in love with this 17-year-old girl with huge eyes. She played a major role in the telugu film "Sitara", which became a real classic, and the title track from it was recognized as a hit of all time. The film received three National Film Awards and was shown at several film festivals, including in Moscow.
The plot fits perfectly with the description made here on KP, which doesn't happen very often here. Apparently, many people know and remember this film from childhood, and therefore made a high-quality annotation for the film. That's good. Just all the stars agreed on this film and it turned out to be unforgettable.
I didn’t realize right away that I had seen this movie as a kid (it reminded me of the movie somewhat remotely). Very sad story" with Kamal Hasan and Sridevi in the lead roles. Just one episode, towards the end of the film, helped me understand that. In general, it can be considered that I watched it for the first time, because I do not remember anything about it except this episode, her amazing dance on the river bank, etc., and the title song, which is called "Sitaara".
By the way Bhanupria, the younger sister of another famous actress of the time - Shantipriya, and starred in films from the age of 14 (just like Divya Bharti). Bhanu was engaged in Indian classical dance in the style of Kichipudi and for this film was perfect.
I do not know the actor who played Devadasa, and I do not know any of the actors of this film, I have seen all of them for the first time, except for Bhanupria, of course.
The film is amazing. Beautiful plot, artists, just magical music, composer Ilaya Raja, which fascinates, and I want to listen to each song separately, slowly, listening to the smooth flow of notes.
A great movie to watch with the whole family: there is something to think about, and there is someone to watch. A very colorful, beautiful film! Bhanupria is a beauty, a real Indian beauty. Well, there are such beautiful women. And she plays as softly, tenderly, femininely, very professionally and thoughtfully, very thoughtful in the smallest details, how feminine she is and at the same time how masculine.
It seems to me that in the Soviet box office, the footage of the plot has been thoroughly curtailed, and from this the finale seems crumpled, and the heroine of Bhanupria is hysterical. And yet this is a very instructive film about family, about true love, about true friendship and nobility, about eternal human values for all time.
10 out of 10