When I first pick my pen and sit down to write a response on the Hindi film Ijazat' a picture of a certain train and a railway track appears in my mind.The green and yellow train coming on a platform where a certain passenger is waiting.The romantic feel of a journey, an association long being attached with it.Life is a journey,love is a journey, and humans are the passengers.
The easiness with which Gulzar "the director of the film" brings these concepts all in one film, is amazing.It has romance attached to it,tragedy,but not that tragedy that will spoil your romanticism with the train and railway track.He keeps the concept with the conventional feel but at the same time goes out off the box as well.A film whose name comes out off the last dialogue of the film in which the wife is asking for permission to step out off her husband,s life.And the director also explores the bond of love without the need of conventionality just like explored in Shakti Samantas film
" Amar Prem".
The film revolves around a separated couple who quiet coincidently meets again in the rest house of a railway station.And then in flashbacks and with the moment revisted and re explored we discover a new evolving relationship.It might look as a harsh night with regret and cries but it is totally opposite.Their interaction involves humor,warm and cold emotions, and rediscovery of themselves as humans,and now, objectively.
They both break the cletiad of a strict conservative,very cultural,subcontinental,type of a couple.In fact they have a very openkind of relationship in which they are possessive and liberal at the sametime,For example the wife allowing the memories of her husband,s ex relationship, to live with them under the same roof.The film gives an ideal image of a modern liberal subcontinental couple who moves back and fourth in between there history and moment of re discovery.
Humour keeps the tragedic element of the story outside.For example amidst the cold and raining environment surrounding them and the husband willing to have a cup of visky, his wife stops him from drinking,in reply he says' visky na peejiyeh,jacket phen lijiyeh,aray aesa bhi kahan hota hai'"Don't drink visky,wear a jacket,think about it does it happens anywhere".A joke which comes out very naturally.And who can forget the poetic feel to the film enhanced with the songs for example "Meray kuch samaan lota do.We are introduced to romantic poetry back fourth,reminding us that gulzar is a poet.
It is a film in which the struggle and obstacles faced by the character won,t take you out off the romantic feel,won,t make you cry.The film is poetic,so are the characters,so are the songs and so is the director.
The easiness with which Gulzar "the director of the film" brings these concepts all in one film, is amazing.It has romance attached to it,tragedy,but not that tragedy that will spoil your romanticism with the train and railway track.He keeps the concept with the conventional feel but at the same time goes out off the box as well.A film whose name comes out off the last dialogue of the film in which the wife is asking for permission to step out off her husband,s life.And the director also explores the bond of love without the need of conventionality just like explored in Shakti Samantas film
" Amar Prem".
The film revolves around a separated couple who quiet coincidently meets again in the rest house of a railway station.And then in flashbacks and with the moment revisted and re explored we discover a new evolving relationship.It might look as a harsh night with regret and cries but it is totally opposite.Their interaction involves humor,warm and cold emotions, and rediscovery of themselves as humans,and now, objectively.
They both break the cletiad of a strict conservative,very cultural,subcontinental,type of a couple.In fact they have a very openkind of relationship in which they are possessive and liberal at the sametime,For example the wife allowing the memories of her husband,s ex relationship, to live with them under the same roof.The film gives an ideal image of a modern liberal subcontinental couple who moves back and fourth in between there history and moment of re discovery.
Humour keeps the tragedic element of the story outside.For example amidst the cold and raining environment surrounding them and the husband willing to have a cup of visky, his wife stops him from drinking,in reply he says' visky na peejiyeh,jacket phen lijiyeh,aray aesa bhi kahan hota hai'"Don't drink visky,wear a jacket,think about it does it happens anywhere".A joke which comes out very naturally.And who can forget the poetic feel to the film enhanced with the songs for example "Meray kuch samaan lota do.We are introduced to romantic poetry back fourth,reminding us that gulzar is a poet.
It is a film in which the struggle and obstacles faced by the character won,t take you out off the romantic feel,won,t make you cry.The film is poetic,so are the characters,so are the songs and so is the director.
Cast
- Rekha as Sudha
- Naseeruddin Shah as Mahender
- Anuradha Patel as Maya
- Dina Pathak as Principal
- Shammi Kapoor as Mahender's grandfather
- Sulbha Deshpande as Sudha's mother
- Ram Mohan
- Rita Rani Kaul
- Ashok Mehta
- Rajesh Bombaywala
- Ashfaq Ahmed
- Bhupinder Sharma
- Sunil Advani
- Monish Prem
- Shashi Kapoor as Sudha's husband
Crew
- Director: Gulzar
- Producer: R K Gupta, Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Co-Producer: Sweety Mehta
- Story: Subodh Ghosh (Jatugriho)
- Screenplay: Gulzar
- Dialogues: Gulzar
- Lyrics: Gulzar
- Music: R D Burman
- Editing: Subhash Sehgal
- Cinematography: Ashok Mehta
- Art Direction: R K Handa
- Costume Design: Leela Daru
Music
| Ijaazat | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by R D Burman, Asha Bhosle, Gulzar | |
| Released | 1987 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | Sa Re Ga Ma |
The film has four songs sung by Asha Bhosle, who is the only playback singer in the film soundtrack. The songs were composed by R D Burman. Two of the four songs are Ghazals:
- Khaali Haath Sham Aayee Hai
- Mera Kuchh Saamaan
- Katra Katra
- Chotisi Kahani Se
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