There was a distributor who had bought the distribution rights for Gadar. Jab sab accha hoga, tabhi ek acchi picture banegi.”ĭirector Anil Sharma, whose son played Tara Singh’s child, says, “We had over 50 trials and the film was not getting sold. You have to make it your own, raise it well. A film is like a child that belongs to an entire team. If the film needs it, it will come from my core.
I don’t believe in the concept of showing off how much I know and what all I am capable of. I have done so many films and I always like to go with my heart.
To this day, the film works great numbers on TV and people still enjoy the innocence and the heartfelt emotions of the movie. By the time Gadar: Ek Prem Katha was released, I was already shooting something else. Sharmaji and I are not the kind of people who go to places and discuss a film. Despite the box office numbers, no one acknowledged the film at any award show that year. The industry and the critics didn’t like our film. They took a piece of it home and today, it’s their film. But the day the film was up in the theatres, it won the hearts of the audience. I would have owned two territories’ distribution rights if my friends whose sense of judgement I trusted hadn’t thumbed it down. The initial reaction was, ‘Yaar yeh dated lag rahi hai’. But it didn’t shake our belief in what we had made.
Picture lagne se pehle, yeh sab ho raha tha.
At a trial that we had, I was advised to dub the film in Hindi before releasing it. When the film was shown to select sets, people found the music and the look of the film outdated, but we loved it. Bring this up and Sunny says, “Humne toh ji wo banaya jo humein accha lag raha tha. (Rather similar to Yeh ladki hai ya shola from Silsila.)Īll in all, if you're of the hip crowd, you might not hop for Gadar.Two decades ago, Sunny and Anil faced severe heat and criticism from the industry and critics for their patriotism-meets-romance story set in the pre and early post-Independence years. There is one such enjoyable unnamed number by Preeti Uttam. Those familiar with traditional Punjabi music are no strangers to tappas, which are basically wedding songs teasing the bride and the groom. Ajoy Chakrabarty joins famous singer Parveen Sultana. A rather half-baked track in the voices of Udit Narayan, Preeti and Rakesh Pandit.Īan milo sajna is a classic. Hum judaa ho gaye is beset with melancholy. Nostalgia is the only noteworthy factor in this otherwise average track. Remember Dharmendra prancing around fields singing Main jat yamla pagla deewana in Pratigya? Three- and-a-half decades later, eldest son Sunny laments, Main nikla gadi leke in similar vein. Musafir jaane wale is another heart-warming track in the voices of Udit Narayan and Uttam Singh's talented daughter Preeti Uttam. Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik and Nihar S lend their voices perfectly, with just the right nuances for each mood.
The fourth and the last interpretation is Victory. The search version (as the cover says) is about lost love and misery. The basic folk number with minimal acoustics. The opening number, Udja kale kawan, has four versions. Gadar has nine tracks with stirring lyrics by Anand Bakshi. And Uttam Singh ( Dil Toh Pagal Hai and Dushman) delivers, delightfully. True to its setting, Punjab, much emphasis has been given to the Punjabi flavour. But then again, the film isn't your regular 'commercial' fare in the first place.Ī love story during the Partition, Gadar (mutiny), stars Sunny Deol and Amisha Patel. That's the music of Gadar - Ek Prem Katha. , Movies: The music review of Gadar-Ek Prem Katha