Shaukeen

Film : Shaukeen

Director: Basu Chatterjee

Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja

It stars Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt, A. K. Hangal, Mithun Chakraborty and Rati Agnihotri.

Dadamuni and BASUDA and MITHUNDA

Well its not everyday that bollywood plans a suave sophisticated party and invites mithun , ashok kumar , a.k.hangal and uptal dutt along with rati agnihotri at her glamourous best , so I decided to gatecrash this great comic event and my my man was I amused , i laughed my head off and fell off the chair but thanks to god I still am blessed with my head and sustained no injury as my host saved the day ..

The host is an extremely talented bollywood chef basu chatterjjee and he makes the best dishes in bollywood and this is almost like eating a really good three course gourmet meal and the ingredients are extremely talented and spicy too  , and there are enough gags here for a comic series .

The plot concerns  three old men who fall in love with the same nubile young mata hari lookalike rati , who has a very handsome but penniless young beau [mithun chakra borty ]chasing her around while the three oldies who are goldies as well , seem to be infatuated with her without her knoweledge initially but later she shrewdly exploits their crush on her as only a woman can with tactics which will make a corpse burst out laughing .

Anymore revelations will spoil the broth as there are too many good cooks here to intrigue even people who are not too hungry for stylish sophisticated comedies which basuda made in his later days .

The movie does suffer from a lack of great  soundtrack which is at best [by R. D BURMAN ]only above average , compared to other basuda movies but there are some good songs like jab ki koi kangna bole  and the song sung by great dada muni in his own voice [kishore kumar was his younger brother ]but the background score makes up for it and the cinematography is really good for an eighties movie ,

Watch the swimming p...