ANAND is a Bollywood hit from 1970s. It was and is very popular because it portrays a sympathetic story of a cancer patient in India who decides to spend the last few months of his life by sharing happiness and humor with people known and unknown. The movie has the big star of the time Rajesh Khanna playing the role of the cancer patient named Anand and Amitabh Bachchan playing a doctor, who agrees to share his home with the patient.
The story has humor with undertone of sadness and romance expressed thru three or four songs, all of which are still popular. The incessantly chatty patient Anand and impatient but polite doctor play well against each other.
When the doctor delivers the sad news to Anand that he has 'Lympho-sorcoma of the intestine', Anand responds jovially 'Wow, what a nice name, Lympho Sorcoma. If one were to choose a disease it should have a fancy name like that!'
Anand has nostalgia for his lady friend, whom he asked to marry someone else ,because he is destined to die. Her memory is enshrined in his book of poetry and a solitary flower as depicted in the song above.
'Sometimes our hearts fail to meet, in spite of our best efforts and sometimes
perfect strangers become our life long friends, as if they have known us thru many births' goes one of the songs. That summarizes the life of Anand until he passes away one destined day.
'Sometimes our hearts fail to meet, in spite of our best efforts and sometimes
perfect strangers become our life long friends, as if they have known us thru many births' goes one of the songs. That summarizes the life of Anand until he passes away one destined day.
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