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Junglee (1961, India) (aka Uncouth)
In Subodh Mukherji's romantic comedy - his first color
film - and a big hit in the early 1960s that forever changed the
formulaic, traditional Bollywood films of its type:
- the story: a self-controlled, sober, cantankerous
and serious Bombay (Mumbai) aristocratic executive Chandra Shekhar
(Shammi Kapoor, the "Elvis Presley" of Hindi cinema)
agreed with his domineering, widowed matriarch (Lalita Pawar) that
laughter was only for the lower classes; his stubborn mother had
also arranged marriage for her son to a Princess, named Rajkumari
(Azra)
- the sequence of his fateful romance with beautiful
and charming, similarly-named Rajkumari 'Raj' (Saira Banu in her
debut film at age 17) - a doctor's assistant, during a business trip
to the northern province of Kashmir
- in love, he declared through song his new-found, fun-loving
freedom and wildness with her, in "Yahoo Yahoo Chahe Koi Mujhe" (dubbed
by Mohammad Rafi) - as he descended and fell down the snow-covered
mountains and hills, and declared his uninhibited joy by triumphantly
crying out: "YAHOO" (it became a rallying cry for his generation)
- another musical highlight - the flamenco-styled dance
duet between hip-swiveling Shekhar and Miss Suku (Helen) - a musical
production of "Aai Aai Ya Suku Suku" with pastel-colored
sets inspired by the paintings of Monet and Van Gogh
Dance Duet Between Shekhar and Miss Suki
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Chandra Shekhar Singing "Yahoo Yahoo Chahe Koi Mujhe"
In Love With Rajkumari 'Raj'
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