Hum Dono Movie Reviews

Here are five reasons why you've got to watch this film which returns in colour, like Mughal-e-Azam did, a few years ago. First, because it's a living example of what timeless classics actually mean. The film may be almost 50 years old, yet the flavour is mint fresh. There is nothing that feels dated about the film, not even the sartorial style. The second strong factor that propels you towards it is its message. The strong anti-war undercurrent of Hum Dono

Some faces are made for the movies. Dev Anand's nose, for example, forever consigned his visage to the silver screen. Features both smooth and uneven -- vivid eyebrows, soft eyes, the flaccid lower lip, rounded cheeks, that brash burst of hair -- all come together with unusual photogenic synchronicity, that nose playing the unerringly sharp anchor, to create a face made to be lit dramatically. Drown him in glaring light, blind him with contrast

Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya, har phikr ko dhue mai udata chala gaya”. Just like in the anthemic song he sings, in Hum Dono, while standing over a still lake, gently puffing a cigarette, the inspiring, indefatigable Dev Anand has done it again. Pushing eighty years of age, the star with a never- say-die spirit has just re-released his 50-year old, classic black and white war film, Hum Dono, now presented, in cinemascope and full technicolour

When the evergreen Dev Anand decides to add colour to his last black-and-white film and wishes to present his 50-year-old film to the current generation, there is reason enough to look forward to the bygone golden era. Two names that make Hum Dono worth a watch are (of course) Dev Anand and writer Vijay Anand. Set in the period of World War 2 on the backdrop of India-Burma war, Hum Dono is not an out-and-out war film (as might be the notion)