![]() ![]() ![]() Neena (Nargis in a breakthrough performance that established her as the reigning female superstar of Indian cinema)is the headstrong, slightly tomboyish, and wonderfully free-spirited (and perhaps slightly naive) only child of a milllionaire. This flaw apart, however, Andaaz makes for very satisfying viewing, and feels fresh and topical, and very modern, in terms of both content, characterisation, and presentation (extremely glossy!) even today, 53 years after its release. This is a valid issue, but where I think the film errs is in equating one possible answer to the question with Westernisation and the other with Indian-ness, which to me is simplistic and therefore unsatisfactory. Set among the (at least superficially) extremely Westernised upper-crust of metropolitan Indian society, Andaz tackles the perennial question of the feasibility of a purely platonic friendship between members of the opposite sex. Andaz is considered one of the all-time classics of early post-independence Hindi cinema, and the 'original' love triangle of Hindi film. ![]()
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