Cinema In Decades

Once there was a time when devotional movies were made which were quite successful and it was a delight to watch like Bhagat Prahlad, Jai Santoshi Ma, Shirdi Ke Sai Baba. then with a span of time love stories become famous from Mugal-E-Azam, Aawara, Shree 420 to Heer Ranjha, Pakeezah, Daag, Amar Prem, Aradhana,and many more. In short time Action took over the audiences especially because of Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachhan hits like Sholay (an all rounder film with both in lead), Dharam-veer, Jugnu, Charas, Aankhen, Deewaar, Zanjeer, Don etc.70s witnessed action-drama movies, whereas 80s was a mixture of romantic-comedy-action-drama. Superhits like Qurbani, Kaalia, Himmatwala, Betaab, Arjun and many more were the finest examples of all rounders.
Every actor was awarded with a trademark like Rajendra Kumar as Jubilee star, Amitabh as Angry young man, Dharmendra as The He-man, Jeetendra as Jumping jack, Dilip Kumar as Tragedy king etc. This made Indian film industry a global success. movies like Aawara, Shree 420, Sholay, Saagar, Guide, Hum dono were universally acclaimed and praised for wholesome entertainment. 90s showcased different era with mixtures of romance-action-suspense, movies like Ghayal, Damini, DDLJ, Karan arjun, Hum aapke hai kaun, Gupt, Border,Judaai, Dil toh pagal hai created history. Shahrukh Khan emrged himself as 'The Romantic Boy' and 'A Baddie' in Bazigar and Darr (1993). Sunny Deol proved to the 'The Rambo' of bollywood in Ghayal, Ghatak, Arjun Pandit, Ziddi, Salakhein. Two of my favorite comedians who made the decade humorous Govinda (Aankhen, Raja Babu, Coolie-Hero-Aunty No 1) and Johnny lever (as a supporting actor but a scene stealer). There were other hits Laadla, Deewana, Deewana Mastana, Gharwali baharwali etc.2000 brought a modernization in the industry where every thing was taken to a next level. there was a time when mostly romance was shown with two flowers together which indicates love between hero-heroine, but today everything is as transparent as water, thanks to Mahesh Bhatt realistic cinema and their camp's creation Emraan Hashmi. Bollywood is now much inspired from Hollywood in case of romance, action, violence etc. But still it delivered some great hits like Badal, Kaante, Munnabhai series, Pinjar, Baghban, Dhoom series, Veer-Zaara, Main hoon na, Krrish, TZP, Race, Blue, Robot, Ra one. Now if we talk about music, old melodies are still a delight to hear, so sweet to hear them, but today gen songs is just a matter of a month next time you wont even bother to listen. Old songs got such nice, sensible, poetic lyrics they matched up with the film situation. Me and my family always discuss on it, i don't used to watch many old movies but when my dad shown me it was really amazing such good scripts, strong dialogues, dedicated performance by actors. A lot has changed, but this is what life is all about.

Written by
Simran Singh. ( F.Y.B.M.M)

Special Thanks
Anusha Mam