Julie (1975 film)

Julie
Film poster
जूली
Directed by	K. S. Sethumadhavan
Produced by	B. Nagi Reddi-Chakrapani
Written by	Inder Raj Anand (dialogue) Raj Baldev Raj (dialogue director)
Screenplay by	Chakrapani (screen adaptation)
Starring	Lakshmi Vikram
Music by	Rajesh Roshan
Cinematography	Roy P. L.
Edited by	M. S. Money
Distributed by	Vijaya Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Release dates	18 April 1975 (1975-04-18)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Julie is a 1975 Hindi film that stars Lakshmi in the title role paired opposite Vikram. It also stars Nadira, and Sridevi as a child star. The film became a box office hit.^[1]

Julie was also a musical hit, with award winning music by Rajesh Roshan which won him the Filmfare Award for the year. It had one of the first English language songs in an Indian film - "My Heart is Beating", sung by Preeti Sagar.^[2]

It is a rare Hindi film in that it features an Anglo-Indian family in the lead. It is a remake of a Malayalam hit film Chattakari (1974), which also starred Laxmi.^[3] She would star in yet another remake, the Telugu film Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). She didn't act in the Kannada remake, Julie, released in 2006, which had Ramya in the title role as "Julie" and Dino Morea as the leading man.^[4]

Plot

This film depicts the restrictive social conventions regarding inter-caste marriage and unwed motherhood in India. Julie (Laxmi) is a Christian Anglo-Indian girl with a loving, but alcoholic, father (Om Prakash), a dominating mother (Nadira), a younger brother and sister (Sridevi). She falls in love with her best friend's (Rita Bhaduri) brother Shashi Bhattacharya (Vikram Makandar), a Hindu boy. The lovers consummate their relationship, which leaves her pregnant. Shashi goes away to college, not knowing about her pregnancy. Her mother is distraught when Julie tells her about the pregnancy. They don't tell the rest of the family. Her mother thinks about getting Julie an abortion, but a devout Christian (Sulochana) talks her out of it. Julie is sent away to have her baby in secret. The rest of the family is told that Julie got a job. After the baby's birth, Julie's mother arranges for the child to be left in an orphanage, and demands that Julie return home and forget about the baby.

When Julie returns home, her father has died. She is now the primary earner in the family. Later, she runs into Shashi and tells him everything. He then asks to marry her, but his mother objects to the marriage as Julie is of a different faith. She blames Julie for seducing her son and having the baby. Julie's mother doesn't want the union either, as it will be an inter-faith marriage, and she wants to return to England. However, the wisdom of Shashi's father (Utpal Dutt) prevails as he confronts the mothers' prejudices regarding caste and religion, and urges both to accept their grandchild. The film ends with the mothers offering their full blessings to the young couple, and Julie's mother promising her grandson she will "never leave him."

Cast

• Lakshmi Narayan as Julie
• Vikram Makandar as Shashi Bhattacharya
• Nadira as Margaret "Maggie", Julie's mother
• Om Prakash as Morris, Julie's father
• Rita Bhaduri as Usha Bhattacharya
• Utpal Dutt as Mr. Bhattacharya, Usha and Shashi's father
• Sridevi as Irene, Julie's younger sister
• Sulochana as Ruby Aunty
• Jalal Agha as Richard "Richie"
• Rajendra Nath as Rahim, Store Owner

Music

All music composed by Rajesh Roshan.

Awards and nominations

References

1. ↑ http://www.boxofficeindia.co.in/worth-their-weight-in-gold-70s/
2. ↑ "Songs of Julie". Pages.cs.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2011-09-18. 
3. ↑ "Friday Review Thiruvananthapuram : Timeless, ageless". The Hindu. 2009-01-23. Retrieved 2011-09-18. 
4. ↑ "Julie: A big disappointment". Ia.rediff.com. 2004-12-31. Retrieved 2011-09-18. 
5. ↑ "39th Annual BFJA Awards". BFJA. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 2012-01-06. 

External links

• Julie at the Internet Movie Database