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Jul 03, 2014 12:34 AM, 6439 Views

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Some information got on the web will like 2 share

I was just goin throug the Internet and was surfing about Pancham Da’s life and career so I found out smthg rly interesting a great some great facts abt the legend Pancham da written by a great fan of his will like to share the same on mouthshut Following is d article it’s about an article published in filmfare abt the great RD BURMAN

Subject: [Pancham] Re: 27 consecutive flops as per RD in his interview in filmfare feb 1992

This list by Khagesh is just the tip of the iceberg. the book is studded with mistakes. In the same article,

IIRC, Khagesh mentions that Pancham had started working with producer / directors like Harish Shah /

Vinod Shah- who were abs rookies

Surely Khagesh could have just checked the names of the producers from VN’s book(need not see the films at

all) - or surfed the net properly(something which he did in abundance as the entire book is a cut, paste and

translate from panchammagic, panchamonline, i2fs, etc)- to know that Harish Shah was a veteran and his

films, even if flops, were innately musical - If Mere Jeevan Saathi is not enough, one can add Dhan Daulat,

Ram Tere Kitne Naam& Kala Sona.

Prior to the Pancham book Khagesh had published a book on SD - where he used Pancham’s childhood pic from

Ritu’s website on SD and captioned it - Chotobelaye Korta(SD as a kid)

Ananda Bazar Patrika, in reviewing the SD book, understandably, had rammed Khagesh. The RD book was

probably not reviewed at all.

In pancham@. ,

"shashirao" wrote:

This is an absolute piece of mis-information. The author of this book needs to either conduct some real

research or at least attempt to understand/listen/read about Pancham.As I have mentioned time and again - it seems there is no quality control in publications in India. Anyone

can become an author and write anything without due research and without the fear of repercussions. This

is how misinformation is spread. I will not even get into discussing the exact number of flops. Since in Pancham’s interview in Filmfare hewas not mentioning a specific fact - he was simply mentioning some vague number to highlight his disappointment with the performance of some of his movie recently.Pancham was not a box office expert to know the exact collection numbers nor was he privy to how much money

the movie makers made. As with anyone NOT related to movie production - he had a general idea and went with

whatever the producer said. So let’s not make this the quest for the holy grail and find out that exact number of movies. Because even in my research with trade papers and journals - there was never an instance of continuous flops for Pancham -there were flops - but there were the hits and average runners too in between.Unfortunately and off-the-cuff remark has been blown out of context. This was done when Pancham was alive and is still done after his demise. There seem to be a bunch of folks thriving on sensationalizing,

sympathizing, dwelling and dramatizing Pancham’s so called "misery-ill-fortune-injustice".

Ok.on to this so-called author and his book on Pancham. Let’s take a look at the list Mistake #1: MUSAFIR.wait a second.did I just see MUSAFIR? Any Pancham fan worth his/her salt must

know that this movie was never released in theaters. How does this get classified as a flop? Has the author

even done a visual verification of the information printed. At this rate LIBAAS would be the biggest flop

of Pancham’s career.Mistake #2: ANDAR BAAHAR and JAGIR - in the flop list? Both of these movies were silver jubilee performers.

In fact ANDAR BAHAR was released along with AAJ KI AWAAZ - and both made 25 weeks. AAJ KI AWAAZ was the largerhit and went on to touch golden jubilee(50 weeks). ANDAR BAHAR in fact was touted as Anil Kapoor first

commerical success and cemented the Anil-Jackie pair. JAGIR and its Bangla version(TINMOORTI) were successful in each language. In fact JAGIR was releasealongside two other multi-starrers with titles starting with’J’: JOHN JANI JANARDHAN and JEENE NAHINDOONGA. And JAGIR beat both these movies in box office performance achieving silver jubilee status atSuper Cinema Mumbai.

Mistake #3: SHUBH KAAMNA, DUNIYA, JAWAANI, AWAAZ, JHUTHA SACH and RANG BIRANGI - were all averagegrossers. Producers made their money. SHUBHKAAMNA and RANG BIRANGI were the smaller movies that had their usual audience and box office run. No

one expected these to be Golden Jubilee blockbusters.

JAWAANI was the first movie to be distributed by B R A Films(Jeetendra and his brother-in-law’s

distribution firm) with a unique strategy of no main/anchor cinema hall. It was released in limited

theatres with SUNDARAM playing the role of anchor. The movie started with a tepid 69% box office

collection in the first week. Over the next 5 weeks the movie held steady and added cinemas. One needs to

check with Ramesh Sippy(Jeetendra’s brother in law) if he ever lost any money on this venture. Because

Ramesh Behl went on to make APNE APNE with Jeetendra. JHUTHA SACH was the dark horse. Released on the same day as MANZIL MANZIL - it surprised everyone with its

robust collections at the box office. In fact newspapers heralded the fact that the baap still had more

power than the beta. JHUTHA SACH was also a decent money spinner. DUNIYA was certainly a disappointment from the expectations perspectives - since the collection for a

Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu(comeback) Rishi Kapoor starrer was being compared to VIDHAATA. However this

delayed turkey was not a clunker at the box office. It had a decent run at the box office. Years later

Producer Yash Johar would burn his fingers with three flops in a row - MUQADDAR KA FAISLA, AGNEEPATH and

GUMRAAH. In case anyone’s wondering, Karan Johar(thru Yashraj) has re-released DUNIYA as opposed to the

other ventures.Mistake #(I have stopped counting) - QAYAMAT a flop? Wow.where did the author get his fact and

figures. Please check with producer Salim Ishaque and verify. QAYAMAT is the movie that launched his

banner AFTAB Films. It was the success of this movie that led to the making of SITAMGAR. This is the movie

that led Salim to move on to LOHA and later on DOODH KA KARZ.

It seems all we need to do is pick Vishwas Nerurkar’s book - extract a list of movies in chronological order -

and mark them as flops. No verification needed. Let’s paint Pancham red today.I feel like it. Somebody stop this nonsense before the paying consumer begin to mistake the half-baked books and

publications as true. This is how rumors become facts! Loin

P.S. I will wait for this author to issue an Errata for his book and make all due corrections.