We do get a good number of technology and internet related questions from readers but this one is related to Indian Films and that too an old classic movie.
DI reader Carlos Dias from Brazil needs help in finding the name of an old bollywood movie. He remembers the story line but not the title:
Update: The movie has been identified as Aa Gale Lag Jaa directed by Manmohan Desai
DI reader Carlos Dias from Brazil needs help in finding the name of an old bollywood movie. He remembers the story line but not the title:
I saw an Indian film in approximately 1974. I was in Mozambique at the time so the film was probably not a "latest release" by then.Can anyone help Carlos identify the movie title ?
The title had been translated, so that is not much help either and I don't remember the names of the actors any more. All I remember that might help to identify it is the story line.
The heroes of the story were a rich girl that was studying medicine at the university and a poor guy that was earning money by being used by the university to demonstrate, to the students in the girl's class, the effects of hypothermia.
Later the girl has a car accident in the snow and the guy finds her unconscious and half frozen, remembering the lecture at the university he knows how to warm up the girl, but the end result is that the girl falls pregnant.
The girls parents are furious and do not allow them to marry. When the baby is born, the girl's family gives the baby to the father and tell the girl that the baby died.
The baby (I don't remember why) is partially crippled and manages to walk with the aid of crutches. Eventually they all meet and live happily ever after.
The movie had some excellent songs. Does this story line ring a bell?
Update: The movie has been identified as Aa Gale Lag Jaa directed by Manmohan Desai
Sharmila Tagore and Shashi Kapoor are the young lovers whose breezy romance warms up on the skating rink but turns tragic when circumstances forces them to part even though she is pregnant. The film has a touching performance from Master Tito playing their handicapped child who re-unites the couple.Thank you Ravi and Suresh.