Barsaat

Barsaat (1949) - 70%

Not One Of The Best Works Of Raj Kapoor By Any Standard, But Still A Fine Watch... "Barsaat" Has All The Ingredients Of A True-Blue Romantic Musical, Including Chartbuster Soundtrack (Shankar-Jaikishan), Beautiful Locations (Kashmir), Memorable Performances (Kapoor, Nargis, Prem Nath, Nimmi) & A Heartfelt Story (Power Of Love), But What It Lacks Is An Engaging Screenplay, Which Prevents It From Becoming An Evergreen Classic Like Awaara, Shree 420, Sangam Or Mera Naam Joker, But As I Said Earlier... The Plusses In The Film Majorly Overpower The Negatives & Leave You Satisfied In The End.

One of the loveliest and beautiful romantic movies of all time. Nargis and Raj Kapoor are so beautiful together they're really the best romantic partners. And I love this movie's song

Story: Senseless & Predictable The film tells two love stories: Pran and Reshma's true love, and Gopal and Neela's tumultuous relationship.

The story was predictable right from the interval. The story was unnecessary made emotional. In many parts the story didn't made any sense, just unnecessary overdramatic scenes. Story had a message of love over lust.

Screenplay: Overdramatic & Slow The screenplay was too sluggish, some scenes could be trimmed. The major drawback was too much amplification of senseless story. Some scenes had songs going together with story.

Characters: Average Reshma: She was a simple mountain girl who fell for Pran. She was shown very innocent who loved pran unconditionally.

Pran: He was a rich person who loved Reshma unconditionally.

Gopal: He was rich man who just wanted lust from women. As the film progressed his character changed.

Neelam: She was a mountain girl who was madly in love with Gopal. Her character was totally senseless & illogical.

Rest all characters were irrelevant.

Dialogues: Good

Performances: Good Raj kapoor: He did a fabulous performance especially dialogue delivery & expressions were superb.

Nargis: She did a impressive performance especially in emotional scenes aced in expressions.

Prem nath: He did a good performance.

Nimmi: She did her part well.

Rest all actors had a small role.

Direction: Good The direction was superb. Some scenes were shot beautifully.

Editing: Satisfactory

Music and BGM: Good All. Songs were melodious & BGM was superb.

Production value: To the point

Ideology: The writer aimed to convey the message that love triumphs over lust, but in doing so, some scenes were exaggerated and overly sentimental, while others lacked logical coherence. The narrative's emotional resonance was amplified at the expense of realism, resulting in an inconsistent viewing experience.

Final verdict: The film had a senseless story & sluggish overdramatic screenplay with good performances & dialogues to balance. Director had shot some beautiful locations along with melodious songs.

0.25- Story 0.25- Screenplay 1- Performances 0.25- Characters 0.25- Editing 0.5- Direction 1- Music and BGM 0.5- Production value.

Barsaat (Rain) is an Indian Hindi-language film directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Ramanand Sagar. This movie stars Raj Kapoor as Pran, Nargis as Reshmna, Premnath as Gopal, and Nimmi as Neela. Gopal and Pran are best friends with diverse perspectives of love; this movie revolves around two love stories, Gopal and Neela, which could be considered one-sided, and Pran and Reshma, which is regarded as more natural and genuine. Honestly, this movie is so good, with great dialogues and superb acting, and includes all types of emotions that the audience can try to feel. The soundtrack is outstanding, along with addicting songs and addictive lyrics.

i've been in a Raj Kapoor mood lately.first of all i consider the man my mentor because everything that he's done,i want to do.i eventually want to be and actor/director for my films.i want great music for my films.i want people to appreciate my work.

on with Barsaat.this film has been done so well.forget the Barsaat of 1995 and 2005.if you want to see a film called Barsaat,than you must go all the way back to 1949.when the credits show at the beginning of the movie it says Starring Nargis before it says Raj Kapoor and i have to say that it is true.this is Nargis's film.she's acted brilliantly.she's the life and soul of this movie.Nargis is Reshma.you can see it in her eyes,her expression,and everything she says.this is probably her best performance to date.i hope eventually someone will put this film into color.

Raj Kapoor did a fabulous job acting,directing,and producing this film.this is amongst his best performances.you can tell in the scene when him and Nargis go on their first boat ride.Shankar Jaikishan's music is up to par.

the only fault in this film is the fact that there's a song every 15 to 20 minutes.too many songs.otherwise a brilliantly made film.

9.5/10