Manzil | Hindi | 1979

A few days ago, I just saw a beautiful post about this movie’s very popular song on an Instagram feed. Certain songs are inevitable in the rainy season. This song is one of them. One way or another you do hear this song as soon as the monsoon season starts in India. As someone’s radio’s ‘Farmaish’ or Ravish Kumar’s primetime news show or on the loudspeaker of some guy’s house who lives in the corner in your society. 

Many of you like me may have heard the song before watching the movie, even many of you have not watched this movie yet! So, today I am suggesting the 1979’s movie Manzil where a very young Amitabh Bachchan plays the role of Ajay who falls in love with Aruna and pretends to be rich in hopes of impressing her and her father. 

Now let me tell you something about the director Basu Chatterjee. If you are watching any of Basu Chatterjee’s films, take 'Baton Baton Mein' or 'Rajnigandha' or 'Chhoti Si Baat', take any movie where you would observe that the location, the city plays a vital part in the story. Most of the time he shoots in a real location. If the character is from Bombay, you see one or two things about Bombay, like Kali-Peeli taxis, red best buses and my favourite traditional name board of the shops. 

Even in this film, in the songs, where Ajay and Aruna roam around different parts of Mumbai holding each other’s hands and walking on the wet roads, while there is the rain going on, it still inspires many lovers and makes Mumbai rain more beautiful!