Chandni (1989)

Well Deserved Praise

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Despite the great success of this film, Chandni is quite frankly one of Yash Chopra's weakest films in terms of script. I mean, it's too typical to be convincing: a girl loves a guy, then he has an accident and becomes invalid, he doesn't want her anymore because he thinks she is too good for him, she leaves, she meets another guy who falls for her. Before they marry, the second guy meets the first guy, who all of a sudden is no longer invalid, and as expected they become friends. That's when we get a very typical love triangle and some annoyingly melodramatic proceedings, more tears than real emotion. The climax and the ending are predictable to the core, and in many instances throughout the film the dialogues are quite cheap ("Oh my love for her made me a normal person again").But the film is not that bad after all and has good points too. It flows well, the music is beautiful and the film is well-located. Sridevi is the main highlight of the film with her natural acting, trademark saris and well danced song numbers. One particular instrumental dance number to which she dances in the fields is astonishing, and she looks so smashing hot! The film is considered to be a classic today, and I do understand why. This clearly is not because the film is exceptionally good, but the fact that it brought a huge welcome change to commercial Hindi cinema after several years of mindless and violent action films. The film re-introduced romantic musicals which were endearing and visually beautiful, and were somehow lost and assimilated in the 1980s. It's great that the one who reintroduced them is Yash Chopra, the one who actually makes them best.

The movie is beautiful and well created and madde.The cinematography is beautiful.Swizterland is shoot beautifully.The chereography is excellent.The chemistry is beautuful.The title is wonderful.The movie does not drag at all.The music is beautiful.The singers do a fine job.Lyrics are wonderful.Picturisations are colourful.Sridevi is fantastic.Rishi is great.Vinod did goo.Waheeda did well.Sushma supporeted well.Mita did good.Beena did good.Anupham was good in his role.The weakness in this movie has to be the story.Same old story of a love triangle.Sometimes bollywood will make same old stories for excuse.The story gets 0/10.One last thing Juhi acted good in her cameo which lasted only for 5-7 minutes.Anyway the movie is a pure entertainer

It is hard to find a really good Indian film, but this film constitutes as good, even really good. It creates a haunting feel right from the start, and the theme of 'love never ends' is carried throughout the film by this haunting feeling with the use of Chandni (the character), and music. Extremely visual images of Chandni are given to the viewer in the opening of the film as Chandni dances around in misty scenery. These continues during the film with the use of the photographs that Rohit takes and are posted up on his wall, and through the songs that Rohit (with Chandni) and Lalit sing in the second half of the film; it is rare to find this type of usage of songs in Indian films. This film is really good and highly recommended because of the way that it establishes modes and memories, and later evokes them effectively. Well done.

Hello all, I am here to point out an error on Anu Kapoor who has written the story of the triangle love story "Chandni".Chandni is a story of a girl from a small town in Delhi who falls in love with the rich boy Rohit. But though their love blossoms, obstacles comes in the form of disapproval from Rohit's parents. When things get better fate plays a different game on them. Rohit meets with an accident and is left handicapped in a wheel chair. Chandni like a dutiful lover becomes his strength and pillar. But Rohit cannot bear seeing her waste her life on him as he cannot protect her. He breaks the relationship. A broken hearted Chandni finds solace in a new city with a new job. She slowly pecks her withered life.Another man comes into her life in the form of Lalit, his boss and well wisher. Will she be able to accept his proposal? The movie is worth a watch.If you did not find the story interesting enough. watch it for the sheer magic of Sridevi. She will never disappoint you. She is just magic.Now, coming to the correction. I would like to tell that Chandni and Rohit is not married so there is no question of them going for a honeymoon as mentioned in the review of Mr Anu Kapoor. What he saw was just a dream sequence in the form of a song, nothing else.I request to pay a little more attention while watching movies especially when you are going to write a review on it. Thank you.