Julie (1975 film)
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| Directed by | K. S. Sethumadhavan |
| Produced by | B. Nagi Reddi-Chakrapani |
| Written by | Inder Raj Anand (dialogue) Chakrapani (screen adaptation) Pamman (novel, Chattakkari) Raj Baldev Raj (dialogue director) |
| Starring | Laxmi Narayan Vikram (Hindi actor) Nadira Om Prakash Utpal Dutt Rita Bhaduri Sridevi |
| Music by | Rajesh Roshan |
| Cinematography | P. L. Rai |
| Editing by | M. S. Money |
| Distributed by | Vijaya Productions Pvt. Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | March 18, 1975 |
| Running time | 145 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Julie is a 1975 Hindi film that stars Laxmi in the title role. It also stars Nadira, and Sridevi as a child star. The film became a box office hit.[1]
Julie was also a musical hit, with award winning music by Rajesh Roshan which won him the Filmfare Award for the year. It had one of the first English language songs in an Indian film - "My Heart is Beating", sung by Preeti Sagar. [2]
It is a rare Hindi film based around an Anglo-Indian family. It is a remake of a Malayalam hit film titled Chattakari (1974), which also starred Laxmi.[3] She would star in yet another remake, the Telugu film Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). She didn't act in the Kannada remake, released in 2006, which had Ramya in the title role as "Julie" and Dino Morea as the leading man.[4]
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[edit] Plot
This film depicts the restrictive social conventions regarding intercaste marriage and unwed motherhood in India. Julie (Laxmi) is a Christian Anglo-Indian girl with a loving, but alcoholic father (Om Prakash) and a domineering mother (Nadira), a younger brother and sister (Sridevi). She falls in love with her best friend's (Rita Bhaduri) brother Shashi Bhattacharya (Vikram), a Hindu boy, and she has a passionate encounter with him, which leaves her pregnant. He goes away to college, not knowing about her condition. Her mother is distraught when Julie tells her about the pregnancy. They don't tell the rest of the family. Her mother thinks about getting Julie an abortion, but a devout Christian (Ruby Myers) talks her out of it. Julie is sent away to have her baby in secret. The rest of the family is told that Julie got a job. After the baby's birth, Julie's mother arranges for the child to be left in an orphanage, and demands that Julie return home and forget about the baby.
When she comes back home, her father has died. She is now the primary earner in the family. Later, she runs into her Hindu boyfriend and tells him everything. He asks to marry her, but his mother objects to the mixed marriage. She blames Julie for seducing her son and having the baby. Julie's mother doesn't want the marriage either, as it will represent a mixed-caste marriage, and she wants to return to England. However, the wisdom of the boyfriend's father (Utpal Dutt) prevails as he confronts the mothers' prejudices regarding caste and religion, and urges both to accept the baby boy. The film ends with the mothers offering their full blessings to the young couple, and Julie's mother promising her grandson she will "never leave him."
[edit] Awards and nominations
- Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for "most outstanding work of the year", Lakshmi[5]
- Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Best Actress in Supporting Role, Nadira
- Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Best Music Director, Rajesh Roshan
- Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Best Lyricist, Anand Bakshi
- Filmfare Best Actress Award, Lakshmi
- Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, Nadira
- Filmfare Best Music Director Award, Rajesh Roshan
- Filmfare Nomination for Best Female Playback Singer, Preeti Sagar for the song "My Heart is Beating"
[edit] References
- ^ "Boxofficeindia.com". Boxofficeindia.com. http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=181&catName=MTk3NQ==. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ "Songs of Julie". Pages.cs.wisc.edu. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~navin/india/songs/isongs/indexes/film/julie.html. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ "Friday Review Thiruvananthapuram : Timeless, ageless". The Hindu. 2009-01-23. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/01/23/stories/2009012350710100.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ "Julie: A big disappointment". Ia.rediff.com. 2004-12-31. http://ia.rediff.com/movies/2006/may/15julie.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ "39th Annual BFJA Awards". BFJA. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080119012515/http://www.bfjaawards.com/legacy/pastwin/197639.htm. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
[edit] External links
- Julie at the Internet Movie Database
