Gowri Spoiler A great movie...the direction is marvelous. I'm sure everyone knows the plot ~ a love triangle. Radha (Vyjayantimala) loves Gopal (Rajendra Kumar), he loves her back, but hides it due to his best friend Sunder (Raj Kapoor) who is also in love with Radha.Radha always hides her feelings and it's hard for her to be frank, but she thinks of Sunder only as a childhood and nothing more. Gopal tries to get Radha and Sunder hooked up in marriage, but even Radha's parents had planned for her to get married to Gopal.Radha yells at Sunder to be somebody! He finds that statement very strong, and decides he can be a good use in the army. So he leaves, making Gopal promise that there would be no third person in the way of him (Sunder) and Radha. Gopal, as a good friend, promises. Then, as the plane is about to leave Radha finally realized what they were talking about, and she yells and yells and Sunder saying that he was thinking wrong...she doesn't love him. But he couldn't hear her.After sometime, it is believed that Sunder had died during a plane crash is the war. After this, Gopal finally shows his love to Radha. Within two years, their marriage is about to be settled. But suddenly ~ Sunder is back! News has come that he had survived! Now it was a strange dilemma, should Gopal keep is promise and break Radha's heart? Or break it and prove himself to be an unloyal friend?The movie is wonderful. The songs are great, I especially like "Main Ka Karoon Ram" and "O Mere Sanam". But "Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega", "Yeh Mera Prem Patra" and "Dost Dost Na Raha" are also mezmerising. Vyjayantimala is unbelievable beautiful and her performance was invincible...which is why she deservedly won the best actress award for 1964. Rajendra Kumar's expression is beautifully depressing...his mouth is arched in a smile but his eyes are crying...he's excellent. And last but not least Raj Kapoor, who excels in a different role. During the second half he acts so cruel, and it's nice to see that he is a very versatile actor. He directed the movie too, and he did a great job of it.A sad but wonderful love story. I love this movie! I give it a ten out of ten. Watch it, it's a classic.

Herag Halli Raj Kapoor, was probably the most co-ordinated of the actors, just watching him, during the song "Her Dil Jo Pyar Karega" he is playing an accordion,singing,dancing and acting when some of his counterparts couldn't walk and chew paan at the same time!!. No wonder this immensely talented actor was known all over globe and was adored as the Indian "Charlie Chaplin". He took a big gamble with a subsequent magnum opus-encompassing the life and tribulations of a Joker-"Mera Naam Joker", almost bankrupting this Producer/Actor/Director known as the flamboyant Showman of Indian Cinema. This Movie was the culmination of many years of his efforts and one of the best he ever made. This celluloid classic was shot extensively in Ootacamund (Ooty-a Heavenly hill station near Bangalore-the song "Oh-Mehbooba" was shot in the Ooty lake), London, Rome, Switzerland. When Sundar (Raj Kapoor)is deemed to be dead, the rekindling of the romance between the erst wile caretaker-friend Gopal (Rajendra Kumar) and Radha (Vijayantimala) starts with barren,desolate and lifeless tree and then, there is this most beautiful scenery of fully blossomed trees-when the music changes from a sullen to a lilting tune coming from a 'Veena' and the subsequent interlude is probably the most romantic song-sequence ever filmed. This was the genius of Raj kapoor at work. He had the greatest ensemble of talent, musicians Shankar-Jaikishan, singers Mukesh and Lata, lyricists Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri,cinematographer Radhu Karmarkar, who enriched this visual splendor. Then there is the guilt ridden flashbacks of Gopal and Radha, when he sings "Dost Dost Naa Raha". This vivacious and talented actress was aptly rewarded with the best actress award. This is a movie, that everything came together, like the Indian "Sound of Music". Raj Kapoor had style, class, and passion for film making that no other film-maker shared. "Sangam" is a flawless Diamond that will shine as a quintessenstial Jewel in the Crown of Indian Cinema.

meitschi Gopal (Rajendra Kumar), Sunder (Raj Kapoor) and Radha (Vyjayanthimala) have been friends since childhood. When they become adults, both men fall in love with Radha - she loves Gopal. But Gopal, out of a flawed understanding of friendship and commitment, doesn't dare to speak his mind as Sunder, his best and closest friend, is also in love with Radha and is courting her. Many misunderstandings follow (especially by Sunder who seems to be completely blind to everyone around him and their feelings) that has as consequence that Gopal sacrifices both his love for Radha and her love for him. But the problem of the threesome remains by the close relationship of the two men with each other. Thus the ensuing conflicts can only be solved by a final breakup of this threesome...On the surface a rather exasperating melodrama, but in depth one of the most unsettling stories of traffic in women between males (though I am not sure that the movie was really meant to be that critical). In this story, two men rather sacrifice a woman's happiness (and at least one of them his own) than bringing their own relationship - the emotional depth of which seems to go well beyond "ordinary" friendship - into jeopardy. They indulge in their own martyrdom and commitment to each other, while they use the (ostensibly beloved) woman as a gift to each other and as a proof of their mutual friendship/love. Though she sometimes speaks out her mind in quite a bitter way, she can never get what she really wants, no-one is interested in her feelings and wishes.Though not a perfect film and sometimes even a bit unnerving by the constant misunderstandings in the plot, still very interesting (and unsettling) psychologically. Great food for feminist/gender analysis... :)One of the best parts of "Sangam" is the honeymoon sequence in Europe, that is - in contradiction to the melancholy and fatality of most of plot - very lighthearted, with some pricelessly lovely and funny moments (Vyjayanthimala dancing in sexy "Western" clothing in a Paris hotel room) - and even a kissing scene (though enacted by non-Indians). The playback singers (Mukesh for Raj, Lata Mangeshkar for Vyjayanthimala, Mohd. Rafi for Rajendra) are great as always, the songs are beautiful.

jiv-3 Still very popular movie. Good story with excellent photography by Radhu Karmakar and good direction by Raj Kapoor supported by good acting by Rajkapoor, Vaijyanti Mala and Rajendra Kumar.All the songs composed by the magical duo, Shankar Jaikishan were super hit.. still very popular.Dost Dost Na raha, Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega, O Mehbooba., Yeh Mera Prem Patra, Bol Radha Bol, O Mere Sanam and Is Liebe dis..All were quite hit, written by Shailendra and Hasrat.