Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973)

Original title

यादों की बारात

Directed by

Nasir Hussain

Genre

drama film, action film, Masala film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 45m

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three brothers are separated as children after their parents are killed by criminals. Years later, they reunite through a series of songs and action sequences to take revenge on the men who tore their family apart.

nostalgicsentimentallivelyaction-packeddramaticupbeatemotionalmusical

What happens

Yaadon Ki Baaraat (transl. Procession of Memories) is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language masala film, directed by Nasir Hussain and written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar). It featured an ensemble cast, starring Dharmendra, Vijay Arora, Tariq Khan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh, Ajit and Captain Raju. The film was influential in the history of Indian cinema. It has been widely identified as the first masala film, combining elements of the action, drama, romance, musical, crime and thriller genres. Masala films went on to become the most popular genre of Indian cinema, and Yaadon Ki Baaraat has thus been identified as "the first" quintessentially "Bollywood film." It also launched the careers of several actors, as the commercial breakthrough Hindi film for Zeenat Aman and Neetu Singh, who became leading actresses of the 1970s, and as the debut film for Nasir Hussain's nephews Tariq Khan and Aamir Khan, the latter a child actor who grew up to be one of the biggest movie stars in Hindi cinema. It is still remembered fondly for its soundtrack, composed by music director R.D. Burman. The film was later remade in Telugu as Annadammula Anubandham, in Tamil as Naalai Namadhe and in Malayalam as Himam. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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