“Yuvraaj” versus “Rainman” & “Sautela Bhai”

After his inspired “Black & White”, Subhash Ghai’s latest offering “Yuvraaj” has a plot similar to Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman starrer & Oscar Winner “Rainman”. The only novelty in Salman starrer is the third additional brother as compared to the two in “Rainman”.  It runs on the same storyline where the rich father dies giving everything to his autistic son and now the other brother(s) has to win his heart to survive.

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Interestingly before “Rainman” there was a movie made in our Bollywood on the same plot featuring Guru Dutt. It was “Sautela Bhai” which released in 1962. Here Guru Dutt played the innocent brother and Raaj Kumar played the brother who was deprived of all the riches.

No doubt, it sounds tough but is quite possible that somehow “Sautela Bhai” was the first original one and all the later versions followed it. Having said this, I again remember the masters of Indian Cinema in the Golden Era with high regards.

But the fact still remains, that if you are asked to rate the best one out of all, the answer would be same from all sides and that’s “Rainman”. The movie has the power to make you sit and praise the performance of Dustin Hoffman without any hesitation. He simply wins your heart with his lovable act. In fact after watching “Rainman”, I became his fan and began searching for all the movies featuring him.

“Sautela Bhai” can be rated second, though may be the most original one and “Yuvraaj” comes third with not so impressive interpretation of the story.

(Apart from these, another movie was also there inspired form the “Rainman” syndrome and that was “Hum Dono” starring Rishi Kapoor and Nana Patekar)

Yuva

Maniratnam’s “Yuva” is a well made movie with a different theme which is new to the Indian Film Industry, where one incident (or accident) is seen from three different angles. But the basic plot is very similar to “Amores Perros” which is more bold and hard hitting movie. Here also an accident is there which relates to all the characters in the movie and the story binds all of them into one.

More in “Y-Z” Category

Zinda – Oldboy (Korea)
Zeher – Out of Time
Zameen – Air Force One
Yes Boss – “For Love or Money” & “The Apartment”
Yeh Kya Ho Raha HaI – American Pie-I
Yaarana – Sleeping With The Enemy
Yeh Dillagi – Sabrina
Zulm Ki Hukumat – Godfather
Yakeen – Shattered
Zanjeer – Death Rides A Horse
Zalzala – Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
Zehreela – Cape Fear
Zakhmee Aurat - I Spit On Your Grave