50 Years of Mera Gaon Mera Desh
A super hit movie of 1971 starting Dharmendra, Asha Parekh, and Vinod Khanna shot in Rajasthan is sheer eye candy. It has its romance, its moments of comedy, and its melodrama, but ( Vinod Khanna) Jabbar Singh vs. Ajit(Dharmendra) is, eventually, the focus of the film. it has a lot of the tropes and motifs of the Clint Eastwood films. The film was a huge blockbuster at the box office cementing Vinod Khanna's place as a top actor. Dharmendra plays Ajit, an orphan, who is reformed by an ex-soldier Jayant. The village is repeatedly looted and savaged by Jabbar’s gang and Ajit stands up to wage a lone fight. Asha Parekh is the heroine of the film but has nothing to do except singing one or two songs. Worth mentioning is Laxmi Chhaya. She gets to lip-sync to three of the film’s most famous songs— Maar diya jaaye ya chhod diya jaaye , Aaya aaya atariya pe koi chor and Apni prem kahaaniyaan —and dances up a storm in each of th...