Love and God

19861986
2h 21m

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Based on the ill-fated love story of Laila and Majnu, this version shows them as inseparable childhood sweethearts, and subsequently as each others lovers. They want to get married, but as t... Read allBased on the ill-fated love story of Laila and Majnu, this version shows them as inseparable childhood sweethearts, and subsequently as each others lovers. They want to get married, but as their fathers' (Emir E Basra, and Emir E Yemen respectively) are sworn enemies of each othe... Read allBased on the ill-fated love story of Laila and Majnu, this version shows them as inseparable childhood sweethearts, and subsequently as each others lovers. They want to get married, but as their fathers' (Emir E Basra, and Emir E Yemen respectively) are sworn enemies of each other, they are not permitted to see other, leave alone get married. Separated from each other... Read all

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It took more than 20 years to make (the longest production time for any movie) after running into a series of difficulties, including the deaths of lead actor Guru Dutt in 1964 and director K. Asif in 1971. The film was abandoned, then revived by Asif's widow, 'Asif, Akhtar', and finally released in incomplete form. In 1985 when sanjeev kumar, after surgery returned back from u.s.a. and looked thin younger and lost some weight. The makers thought sanjeev kumar looks like he looked 20 years ago in the film. So the makers thought to revive the film and complete it and a top producer at that time K.C.Bokadia took over the film to finance it to complete it. Before the shooting started Sanjeev Kumar suddenly passed away then a song and one sequence was shot on duplicates and the good song ' pholon mein tu.....gulshan gulshan......' was not shot at all. Sudesh bhonsle dubbed for Sanjeev Kumar and the film was released as it is.....incomplete. In those days, it was annouced that Akhtar Asif will direct a film for Bokadia, but nothing came on.

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K Asifs tragic swan song.

Love And God review :

After the all time great classic Mughal-E-Azam (1960), legendary director K Asif started his next ambitious venture titled Love and God with Guru Dutt and Nimmi in lead roles. A retelling of the Laila Majnu saga, Love And God was jinxed project right from the start.

K Asif filmed a few sequences from 1963 until Guru Dutt's untimely death in 1964. The film was shelved for some time after this before Asif Saahab revived it in late 60s with young Sanjeev Kumar replacing Guru Dutt as Qais Majnu and Nimmi retained as Laila.

Jayant and Nasir Hussain played their warring fathers while Pran played the prince who marries Laila only to be spurned by her. Interestingly, Amjad Khan played a small role of an African slave which would've been his debut before Sholay (1975). Simi Garewal too appeared in a cameo towards the end.

Asif Saahab completed about 80% of the film before he passed away in 1971. The film lay in the cans after that till mid 80s when producer KC Bokadia showed interest in reviving it. He collaborated with Asif's widow Akhtar and the salvaged portion of the film was edited and dubbed. Sanjeev Kumar was approached to complete some portions and dubbing but he too died in 1985 and then Sudesh Bhosle completed his dubbing.

After 23 years in production (a record in itself!!), Love And God released in its incomplete form without a proper climax at the same Maratha Mandir cinema in Mumbai where Asif Saahab's Mughal-E-Azam had premiered and ran successfully for two long years. Unfortunately, it couldn't replicate the success of its predecessor and was a box office disaster.

Despite being incomplete, Love And God bears Asif Saahab's stamp all over it and certain portions are sheer magic. Its a pity that a film on the immortal tragic love of Laila Majnu itself had such a troubled and tragic story of its own.

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

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