SAATH-SAATH (1982)
As Avinash: Farookh Sheikh
As Gitanjali Gupta: Dipti Naval
Other Actors: Satish Shah... etc.
Team Working
Director: Raman Kumar
Producer: Dilip Dhawan
Written by: Raman Kumar
Lyrics: Javed Akthar
Music: Kuldeep Singh
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We often live in the world of our own, being in the ideals when we need not to implement them, often means absolutism. When we need to experiment with basics of life only with ourselves then that makes life easier to live. We alter high ideals and then surround people with our magnificent words and elate messages, which mean utopian concepts of doing and making imagination come alive. This was the temperament of Avinash; a town boy when he comes to study at University of Mumbai.
Avinash being son of a feudal lord had only seen the atrocities and mean life of his parents, who wanted to only exploit people for their gains. The life of sickening pleasure made him cutoff all his ties with his ancestary and with the paltry owns he comes to live in the Mumbai a city of hope and where there are immense possibilities to live the way one wants to live. Inspired by the socialist ideas of perfect harmony in life makes him adorable orator in his small friend circle. His simplicity and ideas of well being of the most underprivileged in the society empowers him with the cult status of socialist and revolutionary. The charismatic personality of his gradually gives him the secret admiration of Gitanjali, a young charming classmate of him.
Gitanjali is the effervescent girl, hailing from the affluent class of Mumbai, but unlike the elegant riches, she is carefree and enjoys living life in all its forms. Simplicity and distinct ideology than others of Avinash brings her even more near to him. She tends to motivate him to pursue his ideals in practicality and decides to be his wall like support. In a scene, when, Avinash tells her that he is an idealist and will not be able to make her live a safe life, then she says; “Let the life bring all the thunders I will save myself and you from all the tyranny by my will of live and love for you. ”. The embellished subtlety of the emotion, which they both evolve with, is pleasingly expressed in the song: “Tumko Dekha Toh…”.
The love nurtures and they both decide to get married, irrespective of all the opposition from parents of Gitanjali, the newly wedded couple is now in the helm of realities. They live in a rented house where there were barely any support and only a roof was the luxury of the joyous two. Yet, they tend to blissfully enjoy the company of each other skillfully explaining their emotion in the song; “Yeh tera ghar yeh mera ghar”. As they get married when they were continuing their studies, they tend to work as teachers and writers in the city, where, Avinash is struggling for the career of fortune; Gitanjali becomes a teacher in a school. However, the life turns difficult as the hectic schedule of life barely allows them to interact. In few weeks time, the singing together turns signing notes for each other. In between, she conceives their first child and faints while commuting. Avinash comes to know and realizes that it is harsh to live with idealism. He decides to give on few of his ideas and develops attitude of accepting compromises in life. He joins firm of his friends publishing company, once when he was emphasizing on the publication of classical and idealist literature he was almost eliminated from his services their. Now, he returns in the firm with changed attitude and agrees to work on the latest gossip issues and making fashion fiesta terms. He is accepted in the firm with warm wishes and the rented flat turns into plush mansion, with almost all amenities, he always shunned in his life. He becomes the affluent and impressive husband and star in his firm. Coping with all the so-called distorted ethics of his profession. Gitanjali in the mean time becomes a nurturing mother but losing somewhere the man, she adored. She finds less time of idealism with him, he is like all those chasers of money-men she was always surrounded with but who never appealed her. She gradually looses all her sparkling cheerfulness’ of audacious living and struggles, which she enjoyed in her early nuptial life.
One morning she listens to her husband speaking about some publishing transacts almost violating the essential ethics of life. She cries in agony and determines to show Avinash the mirror explaining vehemently about she is shattered with his behaviour and wants to walk from the life with their son. Avinash is so much intoxicated with his new found success does not reacts sharply to her decision and says that she can stay for one more night as the day was their sons’ birthday. She agrees, realizing that how far he has gone, that she cant even make him realize what he is in now…
That evening she sings a songs in the birthday party …, “Kyun…Zindagi ki raah …”, belligerently explaining that life has brought us is such divides that after coming so close we cant even live together… the touching environs of the song make everyone in the gathering realize that there was tense state in the bond between Avinash and Gitanjali. All the friends quietly depart leaving them alone pondering in the issue. That night Avinash keeps on thinking and restless pertains in his thoughts. Morning when Gitanjali calmly moves away from the doors … Avinash comes to her and confesses to his follies and says that he would change himself and leave the publishing company to start his own venture of the ideals he always epitomized for his life.
The movie ends with a note of hope…. that yes they will change for the good cause of difference and classicism.
