27 down : the only film of Avtar Kaul

अवतार कौल की पहली और आखिरी फिल्म 27 DOWN , हमेशा मन करता रहा की एक और फिल्म बना पाते।
कहानी मुंबई की एक रेलवे टिकट वाले की , वही लोकल ट्रैन और ट्रैक,
1974 जब बच्चन की जंजीर और राज कपूर की बॉबी को छोड़ किसने देखा होगा 27 DOWN
उनको भी सलाम  ......

M  K  रैना लीड एक्टर थे , विश्वास नहीं होता राखी हीरोइन होगी। ---

AWARDS

• National Award for Best Film (1975)
• National Award for Best Cinematography (1975)

CAST

• M.K. Raina ———————— Sanjay
• Rakhee —————————– Shalini
• Rekha Sabnis ———————- Sanjay’s wife
• Om Shivpuri ———————– Sanjay’s father
• Madhavi Manjula
• Sadhu Meher
• Sudhir Dalvi ———————– Sanjay’s friend
• Nilesh Vellani ——————— Young Sanjay

27 Down by Awtar Krishna Kaul, who died in an accident soon after its completion, is one of the great Mumbai films, featuring unforgettable journeys on the local train, a lustrous Raakhee, and some of the best black and white vistas of the city, including an unforgettable sequence of commuters spilling out of a train as it pulls into a station. Celebrated cinematographer Apurba Kishore Bir, who shot 27 Down and several parallel films, also directed a handful of titles, includingAranyaka, a Rules of the Game-influenced tale set in a tribal part of Orissa and featuring an ex-royal, his guests and a hunt that goes badly wrong. Aranyaka isn’t wholly successful in its depiction of the tensions between the ruling class and indigenous people, but it’s a curio nonetheless, on a par with Aribam Syam Sharma’s Manipuri filmSanabi. The story of a stolen horse and the role it plays in a budding romance is less interesting than the rural Manipuri landscape, lovingly photographed by renowned Malayli cinematographer Sunny Joseph.

ANAND A FILM BY RISIKESH MUKHERJEE

आनंद
बाबू मोसाय का आपने घर में नाईट लैंप के पास डायरी लिखना।
सुनील देव थे गार्डन चेयर पर बैठ कर चाय पीना
फ़िल्म के शुरुआत में मुंबई की सड़क रोजाना की ज़िन्दगी  था हाई राइज
सुनीता सान्याल की मुस्कान और संवाद विहीन रोल
मुंबई के बीच

Cast[edit]

• Rajesh Khanna as Anand Sehgal
• Amitabh Bachchan as Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee a.k.a. Babu Moshai
• Sumita Sanyal as Renu
• Ramesh Deo as Dr. Prakash Kulkarni a.k.a. Dost
• Seema Deo as Suman Kulkarni
• Lalita Pawar as Matron
• Durga Khote as Renu's mother
• Johnny Walker as Isa Bhai
• Asit Sen as Bhaskar's patient
• Dara Singh as Pahalwan

Production[edit]

Anand was originally supposed to star actors Kishore Kumar and Mehmood in lead roles.^[2] One of the producers, N.C. Sippy, had earlier served as Mehmood's production manager. The character Babu Moshai was to be played by Mehmood. Mukherjee was asked to meet Kishore Kumar to discuss the project. However, when he went to Kishore Kumar's residence, he was driven away by the gatekeeper due to a misunderstanding. Kishore Kumar (himself a Bengali) had done a stage show organized by another Bengali man, and was involved in a dispute with this man over financial matters. He had instructed his gatekeeper to drive away this "Bengali", if he ever visited the house. The gatekeeper misunderstood Mukherjee to be this "Bengali", and refused him entry. The incident hurt Mukherjee and he decided not to work with Kumar. Consequently, Mehmood had to leave the film as well. Both Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor were offered the lead before Rajesh Khanna.^[3]

Film expert and musicologist Rajesh Subramanian says that Mukherjee shot the film in 28 days.^[4] The screenplay of Anand was written by Gulzar (who also wrote dialogues and lyrics of a few songs), Bimal Dutt, D.N. Mukherjee and Hrishikesh Mukherjee.^[5] The character of Anand was inspired by Raj Kapoor, who used to call Mukherjee "Babu Moshay".^[6] It is believed that Mukherjee wrote the film when once Kapoor was seriously ill and Mukherjee thought that he may die.