• Movie Songs In Telugu

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Album. Refrains of S.D. Burman's 'Sun Mere Bandhu Re' ('Sujata', 1959) can be heard in this 1973 film.

The refrain also appeared in an otherwise songless film the same year, 'Achanak', which had Vasant Desai's score. Anuradha Paudwal made her singing debut for this movie albeit for the rendition of a very small Shiv shloka. Her husband, Arun Paudwal, who assisted S.D. Burman in the film had recorded her voice for the scene in which Amitabh Bachhan's character first hears Jaya Bachhan's character's voice. It was supposed to be recorded over with Lata Mangeshkar's voice but S.D. Burman liked it so much that he decided to use Anuradha's voice for the final cut. Director Hrishikesh Mukherjee based this film on the real-life story of Pandit Ravi Shankar and his first wife Annapurna Devi.

Their wedding was arranged by renowned Hindutani instrumentalist Baba Alauddin Khan, the father of Annapurna Devi (then called Roshanara Khan). The two met when Ravi Shankar (then called Robindra Shankar) came to learn the sitar from Baba. Annapurna Devi was considered a much better sitar player and this apparently made Ravi Shankar jealous of her. This and other marital issues eventually lead to their divorce. While the film is based on this story, it's happy ending deviates from the real-life tragedy. This film was produced by Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri's company.

Hence, AmiYa Pictures. The producers credited in the film were not the real producers. Pawan Kumar was Amitabh Bhachchan's secretary and Sushila Kamat was the Chief Asst. Director of the film.

Subeer Kumar (Amitabh) is well on his way to becoming India's top pop singer. He has no intention of getting married, but when he goes to visit his Durga Mausi (Mausi=mother's sister), he falls in love with religious, simple Uma, by whose voice he's enchanted. He marries her and returns to Bombay where he announces that he will never sing without Uma again. However, Subeer encourages Uma to sing alone and when her popularity is soon greater than his own, the seed of jealousy begins to grow.

The major difference between Uma and Subeer is that she sings for herself, whereas he sings for the public. It is the difference between geet and sangeet.

This is the root of the thing that later causes problems, and based on which the movie is named. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Abhimaan is a beautiful story involving many aspects of marriage, success and competition between close and related. When it happens between a husband and his wife, it's evident that it's gonna be a troubled relationship. In short, Amitabh Bachchan is a popular singer who falls for and marries a young and talented girl who can also sing. Post marriage, she finds her own success as a singer and soon surpasses his own. And that's when the problems begin. These problems are called envy, pride, ego (or hurt thereof), anger, and the destructive results of such feelings.

This is quite reflective of the real state of these artists at that point of time. While Amitabh was still struggling to pave his way to the top, Jaya was already a leading lady. Amitabh is brilliant in his performance and he displays all the mentioned feelings brilliantly.

He is tailor made for such roles, which are not overblown and far more demanding and impressive than the AYM (angry young man) roles he would later play. He is elegant, stylish, serious and looks the character. But the real winner is Jaya, who is very convincing. She is first a bubbly young girl, then a shy newly married bride, then a successful yet humble artist, then a woman who intelligently understands her husband's feelings and despair and takes a firm decision, then a suffering wife who bears the brunt of her husband's anger.

She does it all, and displays the right emotions and expressions in every such sequence. An unusually different performance it must be noted comes from the part of Bindu, whose character is surprisingly warmhearted and lovely. Abhimaan is a fine movie of 1973, and the way it was made, treated by the filmmaker and acted, makes it a must-watch for every cine-goer. It is only two hours long, an exception in Hindi cinema and as expected by a great director like Mukherjee, whose films are always realistic and balanced, never goes overboard.