Before Vidhu Vinod Chopra tried to become a jack-of-all filmmaker trying his hand at different genres, he made one type of film brilliantly: the crime drama.
Chopra directed one of the best-ever movies in this category, Khamosh (1986), about a murder during a film shoot. Parinda (1989), despite its insistent melodrama, is an exemplar of the Bombay dockland film, memorable for its neo-noir lighting, stylish visuals and dazzling locations.
1942: A Love Story is a patriotic tract, about Indians rising up against the oppressive British during the Quit India movement. Complete with do-or-die revolutionaries and frequent “Jai Hind” chants, the 151-minute movie even has a scene in which the national anthem is played and audiences are commanded to rise to their feet.
But the 1994 production, which has been restored and re-released in cinemas, also has throwbacks to Chopra’s skill in creating high-wire tension. Some of the best moments in 1942 belong to a crime thriller – the conspiratorial huddles in under-lit rooms, the deceptions to throw off British soldiers, the intimate close-ups that reveal character transformations.
The screenplay, by Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Shiv Subrahmanyam, is based on an old-fashioned story by Chopra and Kamna Chandra. In the picturesque hill town Kasauni, an apolitical young man comes of age when...
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