Bollywood old school

One of the movies I watched when I went back home was Bluffmaster. Although it was essentially a con movie and notwithstanding the fact that it borrows many of its subplots from a few well-known Hollywood movies of the same genre, Bluffmaster also is a throwback to the glory days of Dev Anand's Jewel Thief, Amitabh Bachchan's The Great Gambler and Don and a few other buddy-movies of the '70s ('Heeralal, Pannalal' to name one of them). The movie has two brilliant remixes of songs from that age -- Geeta Dutt's drunken 'Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer bana de' and Mehmood's cynical 'Sabse Bada Rupaiya'. It has Abhishek Bachchan mostly in a pinstriped coat with a red shirt under it -- somewhat of a tribute to Amitabh Bachchan who defined that look in Deewar and his subsequent angry-young-man movies. Perhaps retro/old school will be a recurring theme in Bombay -- and, as Bill would have it said, I am all about old school -- given that 'Don' is scheduled to be remade and so is 'Sholay'. While on that, I came across a wonderfully delectable caché of old Hindi movie posters from before the '80s which quite got me.

Bluffmaster

Bollywood movie posters

Bollywood LP covers

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