Amar Prem is a memorable Indian classic. Director Shakti Samanta gracefully romanticizes The Great Indian City's social struggle with itself via the relationship between its two heroic faces - the charming businessman and the slick woman of the street. Samanta is nonjudgmental and overtly exposits his characters with deft.
The film shows its characters facing a raw reality beginning to depend on each other more by the day. Fate does not agree with this new deal and tragedy strikes with the lovers being seperated. The pair however, gets reunited after a very long time at an old age for all the saddening loss that has struck them.
There is an excellent performance by both Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna. Khanna is often caught playing to the gallery if and when the film demands so. The script hovers on a haunting and brilliant soundtrack but the dialogues are slow and dry though gradually engaging.
The symbolism is poor and missable and here Samanta falls short in lifting and imposing the film as the chief commentary on nascent Indian ambition. Set in free Calcutta, Amar Prem preaches a kind of personal independence and human character in this newly born city.
The film shows its characters facing a raw reality beginning to depend on each other more by the day. Fate does not agree with this new deal and tragedy strikes with the lovers being seperated. The pair however, gets reunited after a very long time at an old age for all the saddening loss that has struck them.
There is an excellent performance by both Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna. Khanna is often caught playing to the gallery if and when the film demands so. The script hovers on a haunting and brilliant soundtrack but the dialogues are slow and dry though gradually engaging.
The symbolism is poor and missable and here Samanta falls short in lifting and imposing the film as the chief commentary on nascent Indian ambition. Set in free Calcutta, Amar Prem preaches a kind of personal independence and human character in this newly born city.