Oh Julie, How Fortunate You are.....

Everyone will be wondering whatever has happened to me to be writing about such an old movie, that too back from 1975, but at least am a bit peaceful at heart because it's about the super-duper hit of those times, ya, i am talking about none other than the then-too-cute Laxmi starrer, JULIE. Actually, this movie had been aired many times on TV, but i never really bothered about watching a love story, that too something that carries the same cute girl falls in love with the cute guy+parents raising hell+she getting pregnant+he leaving the scene kind of movie. To tell the truth, that's what i'd thought about this movie previously but not now. It's kind of a charming movie showing the agonies faced by an 18-year-old in those times and rarely even now. Julie is the central character and Laxmi has done real justice to the character. She portrays the fantasies of an adolescent.

What i really loved about the movie was something that was very unlikely to happen in orthodox families like that of the Bhatacharya's. They accept the girl to their family in the end even though the girl has already suffered a lifetime's miseries by having to leave her baby in someone else's care in a far off place. But it was a very charming ending by showing the reunion of everyone.

The character that i liked the most in the movie was not Julie but that of her mother Margaret. She has portrayed the image of a real Anglo-Indian woman who fancies that her motherland is England and not this bloody India in her view. She carries an air of grandeur around her even when her husband walks with her as a drunkard. Her only dream is to go and live in England, her dream land. She loves her daughter so much but the mental torture she had to go through when she left her pregnant daughter at her aunt's place for a long 9 months and the time when she had to close her eyes to her daughter's pain on losing the child is all so beautifully portrayed. We only look at the angry side of her character which makes us dislike her but if we look deeply we can see a very compassionate mother. Nadira really reminded me of my mother who loves us so much but never shows that. Nadira is Jewish in origin. She had won Filmfare's Best Supporting Actress for the character that she played in Julie. Something that i learned after doing a bit of research on her is that she was the first Indian actors to have owned a Rolls-Royce (Oooh!Wow!that's pretty cool!).

I think the movie is pretty good but that would be an understatement because my forefathers have already given the movie such an appraisal that what i say doesn't count any more, right? So Hip Hip Hurray to the director Mr. Sethumadhavan for whom i dedicate this article (was this last appraisal a bit cheesy? Hey, am serious people) !!!