Dev Anand is on top form in Jewel thief, a fast-paced and highly stylised classic that has a great cast, from Vyjantimala to the legendary Ashok kumar. The songs are just sublime, the direction is spot on and the production is top class. Tanuja sings a classy number.
The story -Dev Anand plays the son of a police commissioner whose life is made complicated when he is repeatedly mistaken for a notorious jewel thief.
Jewel Thief unravels like a Hitchcockian thriller through a superb screenplay that keeps the audience spellbound. After establishing the series of heists through a montage at the very beginning of the film, Dev Anand's character appears setting the scene. There are false walls, mistaken identities and bouts of strong peril, and more twists than a pretzel. Check out the energetic dance by Vyjantimala at the finale, she puts a lot of gusto and sweat, blood and tears in her performance.
Suspenseful and colourful with a sense of calm before the storm in the quiet scenes and a strong atmosphere, Jewel thief is superb entertainment. If there's any criticisms, and that it can be slightly overlong.
The story -Dev Anand plays the son of a police commissioner whose life is made complicated when he is repeatedly mistaken for a notorious jewel thief.
Jewel Thief unravels like a Hitchcockian thriller through a superb screenplay that keeps the audience spellbound. After establishing the series of heists through a montage at the very beginning of the film, Dev Anand's character appears setting the scene. There are false walls, mistaken identities and bouts of strong peril, and more twists than a pretzel. Check out the energetic dance by Vyjantimala at the finale, she puts a lot of gusto and sweat, blood and tears in her performance.
Suspenseful and colourful with a sense of calm before the storm in the quiet scenes and a strong atmosphere, Jewel thief is superb entertainment. If there's any criticisms, and that it can be slightly overlong.