Adolescence - an age
which is most difficult to deal with - for the parents as well as for
the one who has just outgrown being a child and yet has not reached the
age of being treated like an adult.
Gulzar's Kitaab was a
movie about that difficult age when nothing really makes sense to that
growing up child. Add to that the growing discord between his sister
& brother-in-law, played by Vidya Sinha & Uttam Kumar, and the
child, Master Raju, could not think of
anything but to run away from home. The movie, aptly named Kitaab, was
like a book with childhood memories - bitter & sweet both.
This was one such movie where the kids were cast as kids and performed
like a kid too. There was nothing precocious about them. For the
audience weaned on the angry young men days, where their childhood roles
would also be about the ill treatment at the hand of the society or
villains, a movie like this was an anti-thesis. This could be one of the
reason why it did not fare well.
Despite movie being a debacle
when it was released, the songs turned out to be quite a hit. The
movie, with no major star cast, allowed Pancham to create unusual
compositions. Dhanno ki Aankhon men was one such song - played a couple
of days ago here.
Another popular song had RD using an array
of tables, with varying heights, to create the basic tune for the song.
The lyrics itself were unusual, a mish-mash of verse yet the language
which normal children, influenced with their surrounding, would probably
sing impromptu.
Here it is, to take you, on this 100th post, to your own childhood memories:
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