Prem Geet!

Christina here, (better late than never right?) I just finished watching Prem Geet, a Bollywood film that was released in 1981. It is in primarily hindi with the occasional English thrown in. Like many other Bollywood films this movie is loaded with music and bright colors. Prem Geet is the story of a young man, Akash, who is training to become a doctor and is also a poet secretly because his father disapproves of poetry. Shikha, a dancer, idolizes the poet Nishant (who is really Akash) and after some misunderstandings about Akash's identity the two of them become friends and soon after fall in love. While seeing a doctor about colds that the lovers have caught by being out in the rain Shikha faints and the doctor decides to run some tests on her. The doctor finds that Shikha has a "deep seated brain tumor" or cancer and that Shikha only has months to live. Akash decides to not let Shikha know about her impending fate. Akash marries Shikha, against his family's wishes, to try and make her as happy as possible at the end of her life. When Shikha starts to show signs of pregnancy she visits another doctor who tells her of her cancer. The movie climaxes with Shikha's death.

This movie was fun! It had music, dancing and romance. It was also very melodramatic which adds a touch of fun, for example every time the word "cancer" was spoken it was immediatly followed by a dramatic musical chord. I'm not sure if it was supposed to add humor but I always found it funny. It reminded me of a soap opera with crying and inoperable tumors. Over all I liked this movie. It's an example of a Bollywood tragic romance!