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Bobby (Romance Movie ,1973) Starring
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Synopsis
After the debacle of Mera Naam Joker, Raj Kapoor went into a reflective mood. He realized films with strong social messages
were getting stale. He therefore, decided to change the scenario a bit and made a film on love, a perpetual theme.
Bobby exuded a rare freshness that is alive to date. The film became a fashion diktat, with ribbons, prints and skirts wearing
'Bobby' tag to sell more. R K's discovery Dimple Kapadia was only 14 years old and his son Rishi Kapoor was 18 during the making of
Bobby. They suited perfectly the roles of teenaged lovers.
The story of the film was not extraordinary, in the sense it talked of a rich boy falling in love with a girl of humble backgrounds.
An industrialist is overwhelmed with anger when he hears that his son is in love with a fishmonger's daughter. Hells break loose and
the lovers run away from the warring fathers.
In the end, the parents reconcile and 'Raju' and 'Bobby' are united. Durga Khote gives a brilliant performance as Rishi's 'Dhai Maa/Aunty'
and Dimple's grandma.
The songs in the film were very popular, especially, 'Main shaayar to nahin' and 'Hum tum ek kamre mein band ho'
Review
Love Story, a Hollywood film based on a popular bestseller, seared the audience who went back to the theatres again and again
to see the young Ryan O' Neal and Aly Mcgraw enact a passionate love story.
Love Story was not only a super hit in Hollywood, it became a big hit in India also. The youth loved the film. Raj Kapoor
accepted the fact that the time had come to address himself to the new young generation of cine-goers, the youth audience of the
country.
Bobby is a love story of today. It is the story of an eighteen years old boy who had just passed his senior Cambridge
examination. The only son of rich respectable parents who were too busy to bother about him, he found love, solace and comfort in the
company of a sixteen years old school girl.
Out of their love for each other arose many problems. There was disparity of class, age, attitudes and generation gap. How could the
two innocent teenagers face this problem when they felt that they were two youngsters on their own with the whole world against them?
The manner in which they dealt with the situation that lovers of every generation have faced in one way or the other provides for the
story of Bobby.
It is interesting to note that one of the most impressive candidates whose stills were given to Raj Kapoor at this time was a young
and bright-eyed girl named Neetu Singh, who had visited R K Studios with her mother for the role. She did not get it, of course. It
was in her destiny not to become Raj Kapoor's new find for Bobby, but to become Raj Kapoor's daughter-in-law.
Bobby gave birth to a star in Dimple Kapadia. Her screen test for Bobby was taken at R K Studios in June 1971. She was
only fourteen years old at the time. One or two very close associates of Raj who were on the sets of Bobby asked Chunibhai
"Under whom has your daughter taken acting lessons?" Chunibhai replied: "Her first acting-lesson was just now. Under Raj Kapoor!"
With Bobby, music-directors Laxmikant Pyarelal and lyricist Anand Bakshi stepped into the R K camp. Moreover, since 1964 a new
team of music directors had risen on the horizon, the team of Laxmikant and Pyarelal who had been giving Shankar and Jaikishan
sleepless nights ever since the time they snatched away the Best Music Award for Rajshri's small budget film Dosti.