Amar - DVD

Synopsis

A favourite film in which the cowardly hero Amar Dilip Kumar, a lawyer seduces a milkmaid, Sonia Nimmi while engaged to Anju Madhubala. The hero watches silently as Sonia suffers the consequences of their passionate moment while the villain, Sankat (Jayant), offers her help and comfort. Sankat causes havoc in the village before getting killed in a fight with Amar. Sonia is arrested and defended in court by Amar who eventually marries her. The film continues Mehboobs fascination with a kind of cultural primitivism shown here in the harvest number and in the temple sequences with both Anju and Sonia. The melodramatic subject combined with some unusually surreal imagery made the film an oddity in the genre.