Tere Ghar Ke Samne

You sometimes have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince, and over the years I've fidgeted through more than my fair share of Bollywood Blockbusters in the interest of film scholarship as they interminably stretched on and on into the small hours of the morning on Channel 4; usually taking an absolute eternity to tell a very simple story. The songs to me all sound alike, so I just fast forward through them. But as a stuffy Brit, I was never the audience these films were meant for in the first place...

However, my diligence paid off about twenty years ago when I stumbled across this beauty, which I absolutely loved! Even more remarkably it actually contains a song which I'm capable of humming! It's called 'Dil Ki Manzil', a vibrant cabaret number sung by Asha Bhosle and performed on screen by a statuesque young dancer named Helga.

Ironically, because of it's age - and it's in black & white - most of my Hindi co-workers have either never seen it or are only very vaguely aware of it. But it certainly gets my vote!

This is a Hindi language film starring the charismatic on-screen couple of Dev Anand and Nutan.

An amazing wholesome family entertainer indeed! The film falls under the romantic comedy genre. And the romance is equally cherishable with the on-screen chemistry of the lead couple. As is the comedy led by Om Prakash and Harindranath Chattopadhyay. The film has an undertone of a great message encouraging friendly relations among neighbours.

How an architect walks the thin line of building a home for his father and his (unknowingly) his arch enemy (who also happens to be his love interest's father) promises for an entertaining plot.

Add to that the music that lives on till today and excellent performances by all the support cast to boot ensures you have nothing to complain about after watching a perfect film. Hats off to writer - director Vijay Anand whom his brother Dev rightly considered a genius.

Enjoy!

The movie is really good.the best part of movie is music of S D Berman and the direction of Vijay Anand.Vijay Anand has given us some of the best movie of that time like guide, Teesari Manzil, Rajput and jewel thief that show the versatility of director. this movie is romantic comedy and u will love to see it and till climax u will not able to know how Nutan's family and Dev's family going to accept each other. some serious moment come at the end of film otherwise film was pure comedy.

story is Dev Anand is architecture who is making a bungalow of Nutan's father but the same design is like by his father who is rival of Nutan's father and he insist to make bungalow in front of Nutan's bungalow.think's start going more funnier when both family like Dev and Nutan but they don't know they are rival's children. when they know put restriction which is worthless. one of the most emotional ending where both family agree for marriage of their children for sake of their children's future and love.

Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963) : Brief Review -

One of the finest rom-coms from the 1960s and a great influence on Indra Kumar's Dil (1990). Vijay Anand has written a script that's not very popular but has been remade and adopted too many times. That's how influential it is, and it definitely stands the test of time. You must have seen Indra Kumar's Dil, where a boy and a girl fall in love, but their fathers are great rivals. Well, Vijay Anand did it long ago and much better, I feel. The film is about an architect, Rakesh Kumar (Dev Anand), who is hired to build a house by Sulekha (Nutan). They fall in love, but the problem is that their fathers hate each other and always try to put each other down. What's more is that Rakesh is building both houses, one for Suli's father and the other for his own father, and interestingly, both finalise the same design. That's how the title came, I guess-Tere Ghar Ke Samne. It was easy to get the song done with the same lyrics, but getting such a beautiful song wasn't that easy. There is another lovely song in the film that I know has become a cult: Dil Ka Bhawar Kare Pukar, and that too in Qutub Minar. Just wow. The film has some hilarious segments that I believe are some of the best for any comedy movie back then. The auction scene in the beginning, Rakesh being misunderstood as a goon by Sulekha, Rakesh trying to have a conversation with both parties at the same time, and so many others. The film has a fantastic comedy in the first half but lacks the same impact in the second half. Things go a little slow towards the end, but it was important to have such a climax for the 60s. You know that many parents think that they are smarter than their children, even though the children are much more educated and socialized. Letting them know that they were backward was the need of the hour. Vijay Anand did that for us, and that too through a romantic comedy. He balanced both commercial and social cinemas to very well. Enjoy it.

RATING - 7/10*

By - #samthebestest.

Though not very different from the many hindi love stories, this movie will always be remembered for its music. The songs mostly sung by Lata and Rafi are molodius and naughty. Dev Anand has Nutan opposite him for change and they work charm together. If you are a Dev Anand fan, do not miss this movie; if you are not, this movie has the potential to make you one.