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comments on movie 'Kagaz ke Phool'

Kagaz ke Phool is an old classic film directed by Gurudutt. Gurudutt himself with Waheeda Rehman are in lead roles.
The story is about a succesful director who loses his success and zest for living when love is lost from his life both in the form of lover and daughter. The different shades of life from success to failure are shown for this character.
The movie highlights the hyprocrisy and double standards prevailing in society and how success and money are much more valuable than human beings and their emotions. The importance of social stigma in those times is evident such that to match society expectations, people would even ruin their lives.
The movie brings out true love and longing between the main characters in a quiet and beautiful way. The subtle style of conveying our failure as a society to accept and nurture people rather than money & materials is typical of Gurudutt.

Overall, the movie conveys important messages and portrays true love in a serene way.

The movie also has its imperfections. It stretches a little towards the end. There are places where the characters are simply reactive to situation and behave helpless, where a dialogue or an action seem to be required from present point of view. However, we should not forget that the movie is 50 years old and society was different in previous days.

I would recommend this movie as a 'CLASS watch'. Please, be aware that it shall need some patience and respect towards olden times.

Here is a link to a beautiful song from the movie : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-IuqqqxEdE

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