While Lily is a girl from a modest family, and they live with limited resources. He happens to be rich and that also brings in a bit of arrogance. Even to this day, movies have this formulaic approach.Īnyways, Arun is an extrovert guy with playful nature, and he is smart and intelligent. This went on to become a formula for a whole lot of movies, where the guy-gal are up in arms against each other in first half hour and then coyly in love soon after they get to know each other well. With the backdrop of a college, the movie starts with a tiff/competition between Arun and Lily. But the movie truly belonged to Sachin and Ravindra Jain Sachin for his mature performance and Ravindra Jain for his wonderful music and lyrics. And so did Madan Puri in a small cameo as Arun’s dad. Sachin and Ranjeeta in lead roles excelled. Keeping the tradition of family entertainers, this movie too matched the innocence and honest depiction of love.

And people who have been affected by the book, directly or indirectly, must have sent a small wish up there may his soul rest in peace.Ĭoming back to the post, when Rajshri Films decided to adapt the book into movie, Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se was born. It was a huge loss to the literary world. I would just like to pay a small tribute to writer, Erich Segal, who passed away earlier this year, on 17th Jan. This is a book for keeps, the romance is so beautifully portrayed and with so much innocence and honesty.Īs most of us have read the book or know the story, I shall not delve much into it. Although Erich Segal went on to write quite a few novels like ‘Oliver’s Story’ , ‘Class’ and ‘Doctors’ but none of them could match upto the success and fame of ‘Love Story’. The book went on to become a best-seller and the movie too was a huge hit, and some lines from the movie have achieved so much popularity that they are oft repeated in quotes and romantic write-ups, one of them being ‘Love means never having to say sorry’. Hence, the novel came out on 14th Feb, 1970 while the movie released later, in December of the same year.

The movie ‘Love Story’ whose screenplay was written by Erich Segal, was later adapted it into a novel which would serve as a pre-cursor to the movie and help in promoting the film. The publication of this novel was more of an afterthought than a piece of original literary work. Its been exactly 40 years and 40 days since ‘Love Story’ was first published.

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