So the next best thing is to fake it till you make it. Vidyapati sings and Bhola lip-syncs. But Bhola is tone deaf and can’t sing to save his life. And that is what Bhola will be trained to charm his way into Bindu’s artistic heart through singing. Vidyapati (Kumar) is tasked with assisting Bhola in winning over the headstrong, loose-tempered and difficult Bindu. The only way, apparently, to woo her is through music. Rajinder Krishan’s screenplay creates two camps – the young man’s groupies and the woman’s groupies. While Mehmood plays a caricature of a South Indian man, Kumar plays a pan-chewing caricature of a Bengali theatre director. With its bare-bones plot about an innocent naïve young man Bhola (Sunil Dutt), who falls in love with his dancer-singer neighbour Bindu (Saira Banu) and wins her over in a not-so-honest but oh-so-charming way, the focus in Padosan is entirely on scene mechanics and individual performances.Įnter comedic giants – Mehmood and singer-star Kishore Kumar. When he decided to produce his first film, he chose something that was entirely his domain - a delightful physical comedy coupled with some endearing screechy Indian caricatures that surprisingly never make you cringe, even if you are the type who frowns upon Kapil Sharma jokes today.Īlso read: Comedy king Mehmood who earned more than the lead actors of his filmsīased on Bengali writer Arun Choudhary’s short story Pasher Bari (House Next Door), Padosan is an unlikely love story between two young neighbours. The trademark innocent lunacy of the lovable film turned 50 this year (last week, if you’re confident enough to trust Wikipedia).Ĭomedian Mehmood was a rare star, a supporting actor who was an industry unto himself.
This is an even more remarkable trophy because such a movie cannot be made again in today’s Republic of the Easily Offended, i.e., India. Neeche se (Bhole, please sing from a lower octave).”īhola quietly gets down and sits on the floor, only to resume singing terribly.Īs cult comedy films go, Jyoti Swaroop’s Padosan is one of the few in Hindi film history to never run out of laughs. Cult comedy Padosan features Hindi cinema’s most popular duet and never runs out of laughs.
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