Remember seeing Vertigo? Remember the Woman in white? Well, mix the two in a screwed up mixer grinder, add fungus and bad breath as condiments, and presto, we have something called Ghungroo ki Awaz. Sir Alfred Hitchcock would have certainly moved in his grave if he ever saw this pathetic reproduction of his classic by the once classy filmmaker Goldie Anand. Sure somebody has said 'All the glitters is not gold. Here Goldie's gold has been sold to horror merchants the Ramsay's, and they churn out an experience which is horrible and intolerable.
We knew Goldie had a few positive traits: He could elegantly shoot songs and weave them into the fabric of a film, he could handle large scale outdoors, he could inject suspense in the manner very few Bombay filmmakers have been able to do (remember JewelThief, Johnny Mera Naam, Teesri Manzil, and who can forget Guide)..frightfully, Ghungroo ki awaz has Goldie playing nothing but the lead character, some vague thakur (landlord) , enjoying the grand opulence even today without having to do anything, falling in and out of love with the same girl (a la Vertigo), having haunting nightmares of the girl (a la Woman in white), finally discovering it's one girl after all (who does no keep souvenirs from killers, the killer played by Dr Shreeram Lagu, probably his worst role till then).
Goldie is also the producer of this film. He himself would have agreed that this is undoubtedly his worst production ever. Good script (how can something inspired by Hitch be bad?) ruined left right and center by bad screenplay, inept direction, frame less editing, pathetic acting .. the only silver lining is Rahul Dev Burman's music..,the title song "O mere humraaz" is a masterpiece, sung to perfection by Kishore Kumar.
Else.. avoid the film at all costs.. definitely not more than 1 out of 10 in my books..if you want to listen to the songs, buy them from your local CD store..
We knew Goldie had a few positive traits: He could elegantly shoot songs and weave them into the fabric of a film, he could handle large scale outdoors, he could inject suspense in the manner very few Bombay filmmakers have been able to do (remember JewelThief, Johnny Mera Naam, Teesri Manzil, and who can forget Guide)..frightfully, Ghungroo ki awaz has Goldie playing nothing but the lead character, some vague thakur (landlord) , enjoying the grand opulence even today without having to do anything, falling in and out of love with the same girl (a la Vertigo), having haunting nightmares of the girl (a la Woman in white), finally discovering it's one girl after all (who does no keep souvenirs from killers, the killer played by Dr Shreeram Lagu, probably his worst role till then).
Goldie is also the producer of this film. He himself would have agreed that this is undoubtedly his worst production ever. Good script (how can something inspired by Hitch be bad?) ruined left right and center by bad screenplay, inept direction, frame less editing, pathetic acting .. the only silver lining is Rahul Dev Burman's music..,the title song "O mere humraaz" is a masterpiece, sung to perfection by Kishore Kumar.
Else.. avoid the film at all costs.. definitely not more than 1 out of 10 in my books..if you want to listen to the songs, buy them from your local CD store..