Friday, March 19, 2010

The greatest movie ever made- GUDDU

I have to write about this movie before everyone forgets about it.
A cult classic released in 1995, which I had the (mis)fortune of watching in a movie theater.
It had songs like,
"Sardi mein pasina chhute,
na bhukh na pyaas lage!
Yaar yahi pyaar to nahi??
Daddy, se pu..chhunga"
I dont even want to translate it in English. It would make a movie buff say, "The horror, the horror"
Yes, the classic movie is "Guddu" starring Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala with Mukesh "Shaktimaan" Khanna as his daddy and Deepti Naval as his overtly religious Mummy.

Synopsis:
Guddu Bahadur is only child in the Bahadur family, consisting of Advocate Vikram, and his wife, Kavita. While Kavita is a devout and a religous Hindu, Vikram is not. Guddu and Salina Gupta are in love. One day, while driving, they meet with an accident, and Salina loses her sight. Guddu blames himself, and so do Salina's parents, and he is asked to keep away from Salina. Salina herself knows that the accident was not Guddu's fault, but would not like to meet Guddu and be a burden on him. Then Guddu overhears a conversation between their family doctor and his dad, and he comes to know that he has brain tumor, and has only a few more months to live. He wants to donate his eyes to the hospital so that Salina can benefit from them, but his dad will not even consider this. Things take a turn for the worse, when Guddu decides to go to court to assert his right to donate his eyes, not knowing that his decision will change everyone's lives.

Ending (spoiler): Shah Rukh Khan (Guddu) goes into operation and his mother locks herself in the temple built in their home. For 3 days and 3 nights, she prays continuously. Shah Rukh Khan makes miraculous recovery. Goes to her temple (he does not need bed rest- he is SRK) with a small bandage on his head-more like a bandana (he has had a major opn-show some sympathy).
And sees that she is dead n before dying had left a letter in which her face speaks in Hindi as a watermark from that document. Her eyes to be donated to heroine.
Happy ending (for God knows who?)
3 hours of my wasted life never to return!