“Usha! Man is not immortal. One day everyone has to die. So at present I can only promise to love you till the day of death.”
Usha rested her head on his shoulders and the sun gradually disappeared behind the hills on the other side of the lake.
The two shikaras parted and journeyed in opposite directions.
After that the sun rose and set many times and in its golden rays the Dal Lake shone in silvery ripples. But the shikaras were never seen again, and the two lovers did not ride in them. The lotus flowers lost their bloom, the Shalimar fountains stood silent and a sombre song echoed through the depths of Kashmir valley.
“BEDARDI BALM TUJH KO MERA MANN YAAD KARTA HAI”
But the lover of whom Usha sung was hundreds of miles away. The hand of cruel destiny had shattered the mirror of his hopes and heart. He could no longer traverse the path of love. An accident had broken his heart.
A blind fate and the bitter realities of life combined to shatter the love of Usha and Gopal but …………..
Audience and Press:
- Winner of best TASHKENT FILM FESTIVAL
- Winner of over 25 Awards
- Celebrated over 25 SILVER JUBILEES
- Smashed box office records at 42 STATIONS
- Entry at INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS at MOSCOW – TASHKENT – SYDNEY
“ARZOO” is the story of a love that triumphed over life and fate.
‘ARZOO’ An enthralling study.
“Film holds up its maker as a strikingly different thinker – Director, who looks imbued with tremendous potentiality to give the HINDI – INDIAN film art new edge and depth not achieved by others.”
"As scenarist and director Sagar has scored heavily. His shot structure is matchless. He has given Kashmir life a heretofore undescribed shape.
“…Almost never, if ever, the basic passion and sentiment of love has been given such an uplifting shape and dimension as in this film by Sagar.......”
“ARZOO is an enthralling study in the edification of the generally unconscious, generally neglected FORCE of LOVE that still can and should hold Humanity together and save it from animality".
"Briliant performance."
"Rajendra Kumar in decidedly one of the most dynamic actors that we have in India.
"And how different-bewitchingly different Sadhana looks. After ARZOO that liking has been turned into admiration."
"Nazima, is a pack of talent.”
"Mehmood a character whom you cannot forget.”
"As a producer has proved in ARZOO what oneness is in a production the story, the dialogue, the treatment, the performances, the music and the technical qualities at have blended perfectly in this film ARZOO”
As a director he has given us a film of compelling power, which reaches soaring heights of emotions and leaves an everlasting impression on mind. Ramanand Sagar's ARZOO is a searing study of the in destructive zeal of love.
As writer, he has given us a brilliant story with dialogues which are literary rich, appropriate and intelligent. The unmistakable stamp of writer characterizes the story of ARZOO.
"ARZOO will teach many audience to love this world again."
“…..A film of compelling power, dealing imaginatively and sensitively with a love which involves almost all the characters directly or indirectly..."
“……Telling the story the film often reaches soaring heights of emotion and leaves an ever lasting impression in mind...”
“……the unmistakable stamp of a writer characterizes the story of Arzoo (love in Kashmir)…..”
ARZOO (Love in Kashmir) "Noblest Love story ever filmed on the Indian Screen”.
CINE ADVANCE – Calcutta
“…… A searing study of the in destructive soul of love……”
“…… A searching probe into the behaviour of man driven to the last ditch of desperation ….”
ARZOO is essentially a writer's movie Sagar scrawls his signature all over the picture. The size of his script is wider the imagery varied, the mental dimensions universal.
"Sequence by sequence, be presents the facto to us with a seeming casualness that is deceptive, as though losing a leg or seeking voluntary wilderness are incidents that need not be uncommon. The stars too rise to the great challenge of the story and the directions …”
Ramanand Sagar can be described as the Don Bradman of Indian time. As a writer, director and producer, he has scored all round the wickets of all kinds of ideological or imaginative bowling.
“Rarely a film maker has been able to bring Kashmir to the doorsteps of the common man”
BLITZ Bombay
“It is the story of a man and a maid deeply and desperately in love, a love which at times appears to transcend the barriers of today's rapture and soar into the strata sphere of the spirit."
PICTURE PARADE Bombay
President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan welcomed by producer director Ramanand Sagar at the special screening of ARZOO at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Presidential place-New Delhi.
The Chief Minister of Kashmir Mr. G. M. Sadiq said that "Kashmir had never been shown so charming and ethereal in any other film