So glad you brought up this topic! Indeed, 1947 Earth is one of Aamir's finest yet most underrated performances till date! The last scene where he gets hold of Shanta and takes her away from the safety of the Parsi Family is one of the most chilling scenes that I have seen in a bollywood movie!😲
Another scene that is etched in my memory is the one where he sees Hasan and Shanta make love...the expressions that Aamir's character has on his face and the way his eyes cloud with tears yet burn with rage and jealousy were so perfectly done! Can't imagine, any other actor to nail that scene in the way that Aamir did! What a pity, that he too had to fall for commercial considerations and from doing class acts like this film, he ends up doing Ghazini's and what not!😕 (Not that doing commerical pot-boilers can ever take away the fact that he is infact, one of the best and most talented actor that our country has ever seen!)
The songs were so beautiful, that I till date listen to them...especially Dheemi Dheemi! One of ARR's masterpiece compositions!
It as Deepa Mehta's best work till date and probably one of the finest films made on the theme of partition and hindu-muslim conflict!
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
Anupamaa
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