But I must admit that Rishikesh Mukherjee's Anand inspired me with some profound truths of life. Du Anand had a great story, screenplay, lyrics, music besides, of course, a direction and exceptional acting. It is the film's deeply spiritual message of humanism that has resided within me ever since I first saw it in the Maur cinema of Cheapur on 14 March 1971. I must admit that the peculiar circumstances of that moment help me adopt a lifelong mantra of live, love and laugh
Deepak Mahaan
@MahaanMusings · 2:19
Thanks, Ramya. I'm happy that you liked the swell cast and it has prompted you to revisit the film. I'm sure you would not be disappointed. I think the beauty of any magnificent piece of art, be it music, a poetry, a book, a film, a painting or a song, is that it inspires us to become better human beings. Besides, of course, expanding our horizons of wisdom
Swell Team
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Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 2:11
Thank you for this post. And most importantly, bringing to mind Rishikesh Mukherjee's beautiful work. And I'm a great, great fan of his films. And I remember watching, I think, almost all of them, and somehow Anand has been a movie that I felt really sad about out, probably because I watched when I was really young. But like Ramya said, I think I'll revisit that film
Deepak Mahaan
@MahaanMusings · 4:14
Of course, it is larger than life in the film, yet I have come across such selfless human beings in my own lifetime. People like my own father, a couple of my Jesuit priests who taught me in Xavier's, my own mother, and even some of the great human beings I have read and heard from. People like Jawal Al Nehru or the great legendary singer Rafi SAB. People who did immense good to the society without expecting anything