CID (1956) :
Brief Review -
The most entertaining crime thriller ever made by its time not just in Indian Cinema but in any corner of world. Deservingly, the biggest hit of all time in thriller genre. Bollywood hadn't made many crime thrillers on good scale by mid 50s, one or two noir films in the crime world belonged to Dev Anand only in his early days. At the same time Hitchcock was ruling with his prime thrillers not just Hollywood but also the world cinema. Taking about his films made in 50s, some were excellent and some were cliched but mostly he adapted the material from somewhere like novels or plays. Now just one more question, does Hitchcock films entertain you? Do they provide anything else than suspense and mystery? The answer is no. His films were not that entertaining except for a few and rest of the films were mostly set in dark and tensed atmosphere. Just think about watching the similar thriller in light zone with additional romance, iconic songs, comedy etc. Overall, a spicy dish i mean. CID does exactly that. A newspaper editor gets murdered when he was about to expose the underworld links of a rich person. So, a CID inspector gets assigned to investigate the murder case. The film has similar cliches or should i say dragged moments what we have seen in Hitchcock films of 40s & 50s but for Bollywood it wasn't cliches, it became trendsetter because bollywood had never tried something like that before. Dev Anand as Inspector Shekhar is truly iconic, his aura, his attitude everything is iconic. Waheeda Rehman debuts with the bang. What a terrific introduction scene she has got. Shakila looks beautiful while Johny Walker provides superb funny punches. CID is a triumph for Raj Khosla, actually not just for him but for the entire bollywood or to some extent Indian Cinema. A wholesome entertaining thriller that redefined the commercial value of the genre for world cinema.
RATING - 7.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.
The most entertaining crime thriller ever made by its time not just in Indian Cinema but in any corner of world. Deservingly, the biggest hit of all time in thriller genre. Bollywood hadn't made many crime thrillers on good scale by mid 50s, one or two noir films in the crime world belonged to Dev Anand only in his early days. At the same time Hitchcock was ruling with his prime thrillers not just Hollywood but also the world cinema. Taking about his films made in 50s, some were excellent and some were cliched but mostly he adapted the material from somewhere like novels or plays. Now just one more question, does Hitchcock films entertain you? Do they provide anything else than suspense and mystery? The answer is no. His films were not that entertaining except for a few and rest of the films were mostly set in dark and tensed atmosphere. Just think about watching the similar thriller in light zone with additional romance, iconic songs, comedy etc. Overall, a spicy dish i mean. CID does exactly that. A newspaper editor gets murdered when he was about to expose the underworld links of a rich person. So, a CID inspector gets assigned to investigate the murder case. The film has similar cliches or should i say dragged moments what we have seen in Hitchcock films of 40s & 50s but for Bollywood it wasn't cliches, it became trendsetter because bollywood had never tried something like that before. Dev Anand as Inspector Shekhar is truly iconic, his aura, his attitude everything is iconic. Waheeda Rehman debuts with the bang. What a terrific introduction scene she has got. Shakila looks beautiful while Johny Walker provides superb funny punches. CID is a triumph for Raj Khosla, actually not just for him but for the entire bollywood or to some extent Indian Cinema. A wholesome entertaining thriller that redefined the commercial value of the genre for world cinema.
RATING - 7.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.