Suntan

Plot synopsis:
Dinanath (Ashok Kumar) is a labourer, who has determined to educate his son Kishore (Satyendra Kapoor) and make him a doctor and marry Kishore with his friend's Shanu (Indrani Mukherjee) as promised to his friend on the death-bed. Kishore promises to marry Shanu and makes her pregnant. But unfortunately, he has other plans of making quick money. He marries Lata (Bindu) who is very rich unknowingly. They neglect and insult their parents. Shanu gives birth to a girl, Parvathi (again Indrani Mukherjee). Geeta gives birth to a boy, Ravi (Jeetendra). Dinanath becomes blind his wife Thulasi (Nirupa Roy) works as a housemaid in her son's house only without giving her identity. Ravi grows up in her hands, develops lot of affection on Dinanath, Thulasi & Parvathi. After 20 years Thulasi reveals the truth while leaving her last breadth, Kishore will not attend to her funeral, because of his status in the society and Dinanath also dies in car accident. Now Ravi decides to teach his parents a lesson for illtreating his grandparents with the help of Advocate Baldev Raj (Utpal Dutt) and his daughter Sarita (Rekha).

Tags: romantic

Review:
Still worth watching for the chicks, Greek islands and something different..
The plot is a really simple story of a disappointed 40-something year old man, Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou, "Chevalier"), who, while working as a doctor in Antiparos island, falls passionately in love with a young Anna (Elli Trigkou).
The movie is set in the beautiful, yet crazy scenery of Antiparos, and it portrays its atmosphere and hedonistic frenzy in a vivid and realistic way.
The drunkenness of summer and the liberal power of youth, as captured by the lens of Argyris Papadimitropoulos ("Wasted Youth"), are constantly being collated with the awkward phase of the middle aged body and the protagonist's useless struggle of overlooking it.
First, sorry for my poor English.This is one of the most real movies I have ever seen, the acting is awesome, it's so good that I don't know if the actors are not just ordinary guys and girls been themselves.They say the perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing else to remove, and I think this movie is all about that, straight and honest like life, nothing redundant.
The one thing that can be improved is the soundtrack, something more like Chambao would be great but overall good job even on this matter.If you ever been in love and ever been heartbroken if you ever been alive you'll love that movie, really love it, you'll hate it and love it at the same time..
Kostis, a glum, middle-aged doctor, arrives with his pot-belly and receding hairline on a small Greek island to run the local clinic.
It is winter and the island feels quiet and isolated - conversation for Kostis consists mainly of the local ageing Lothario promising him a United Nations of 'pussy' when the tourist season starts.
Sure enough, summer brings with it hordes of tourists, and Kostis falls in with a group of twentysomethings who, when they are not partying hard in the local nightclubs, spend their time on the clothing-optional beach.
They are all sleek and lovely (excepting one particularly horrendous beard) and among them Kostis sticks out like a sore thumb, but they tolerate him until he starts to drink increasingly heavily and ignore his duties at the clinic, indicating he is not as amusingly harmless as he at first appeared.Efthymis Papadimitriou turns in a good performance, portraying well both Kostis' pathetic eagerness to please the youngsters and providing a nice line in staring-eyed obsessiveness.
The other characters - both tourists and locals - are all pretty much two-dimensional stereotypes, with the exception of Anna, young leader of the group and object of Kostis' admiration.
Elli Triggou manages to make her not too obnoxious.As soon as Kostis finds happiness with the group, movie law dictates that things are not going to end well and in that the film is entirely predictable - and I found that waiting for the inevitable embarrassment to happen distracted me from the rest of the film.
A great little film about unfulfilled love in an island paradise..
The movie's main theme shows how desire can blind you to the point that you have no self awareness, where the central character becomes hypnotized and losses all sense of his dignity and humanity.
He is an older man who falls madly in love and although at times he had to be excessive, his acting was realistic and left me suffocating, wanting to get into the screen to stop him.
The cinematography was amazing, set in a sleepy sandy little Greek island, a paradise, a place that we would all want to fall in love..
It was the drama of a middle-aged man who had not tasted the joys of life, being glum and relatively ordinary.
(to use the title of a failed film I was forced to make).We middle-aged nudists have to come to terms with millennials calling themselves Young Naturists, who are rewriting the rules of nudist etiquette.
And while they thrive, embracing the "new hedonism" which actually is pretty mild, and naturally, beautiful realized in this film, older nude beach goers like our hero Kostis feel like a relic, who no longer fit in with the younger crowd no matter how hard they try to hang on to romantic notions of love.Kostis, a pathetic romantic fool, ends up like every unattractive romantic fool, neglecting his professional duties and spiraling downward in some misguided attempt to recapture something he never had.And it can only end tragically.
I was hoping it'd be even more violent, but that's my American attitude showing.Overall, I highly recommend this film because it's the direction that any indie filmmaker interested in using nudity in their art should go.
So far, so average.And then I watched it.Well.Eff me sideways.I shall repeat that for added effect.Eff me sideways.Because what this actually is is a gloriously shot, tightly paced, hedonistic take on a climactic midlife realization that caught me off guard on every possible level of expectation I prematurely held before experiencing it.Against the contrasting backdrop of dawn's naked flesh quivering with the brazen need to explore, coming in like a tide to swallow whole the bashful self-consciousness of the late afternoon, we journey through the sad and ordinary, over to the passionate and never freer, only to eventually enter the dark tunnel of unhingedness......as we progressively come to the understanding that we're doing so while riding on a train purposefully manufactured brakeless.Since I fear this is one of those movies about which I could go on for an eternity and a day, a quick summary and I'm out.Suppressed, depressed, obsessed and, finally, possessed by his own demons, Kostis evokes our sympathy and demands our loathing while having us squirming with second-hand embarrassment on the edge of our seats.Anna's care-free nuisance quickly abides as she progressively morphs into a mirror of perilous exposure held against the viewers ourselves, now, then, definitely in dormant theory, for some in operating practice.Two worlds collide, two bodies connect, two psyches shatter into razor-sharp shards of discordant bareness.Do it.
I really loved this movie, almost to the very end, because sadly, that's where it went way off track.
It's genuine and true to what life is really like for the locals and tourist on the Greek Islands, in fact you can almost smell the night blooming jasmine and salty sea air.
The lead gives a great performance as a doctor relegated to a minor island and you can feel for him as his portrayal of an aging physician who's life is passing him by is expertly depicted - and that's why it's so disheartening at the end because even he, as an actor, seems lost and dejected with the strange ending imposed upon him and his character by the filmmaker - it's cliche at best and seems to belong to a whole other film altogether..
Actors are very well chosen BUT the personification of the main character (the doctor) shows that in real life some people think they are cool but in fact they hide a 'nurdish' - pathetic life from their childhood that reflects in their adult life.
If you get pissed off by geek&nerds that don't have a clue what the difference between sex, love, being cool is then don't watch this movie because you will feel like beating out the s..t out of the main character..
This film begins with a man by the name of "Kostis Makridis" (Makis Papadimitriou) arriving by ferry to the small Greek island of Antiparos where he is to work as the village doctor.
It's then that a young woman named "Anna" (Elli Tringou) is carried into the clinic by some of her friends because of a motorcycle accident.
After a quick examination Kostis tells her that she will be fine and in gratitude she invites him to join her friends for some fun on the beach.
Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an interesting film which captured the wild and hedonistic lifestyles of young men and women seeking pleasure above everything else.
Not even the voyeuristic examination of perfect tanned and naked bodies can pay the viewer sufficiently for enduring this film.
Yet, that very fact, might as well be considered being the film's ultimate message of hope.I admit that I prefer to stick to "male" rather than "female" views of the scenario, if such a distinction exists, since I only have a pair of "male" eyes.This is a story of a volcanic explosion of unfulfilled needs, prevailed by perhaps, the first and foremost one of spiritual nature: "Eros" (meaning in ancient Greek: being in love).
An explosion that tantalizes the ethical boundaries that hold this world together, as it triggers its pursue for love, happiness and reward.The main character, Kostis, a doctor, disembarks in a world where he is expected to lead a flat, low expectations life of serving the poor local people in almost exile conditions (especially in winter).
Half a year later, summertime (both actually and metaphorically) promiscuously brakes through his door in the form of Anna, a young liberated woman, determined to drink life bottoms up, along with her company, people of similar attitude.
Anna, unaware of the significance of her impact in Kostis' life, lures him carelessly into summertime delights including herself and so, the doctor after surrendering to the temptation, inevitably falls in love with her and dives eagerly, albeit defenseless in the deep waters of this experience.In the meantime, he is already under pressure from an increasing feeling of inadequacy, as he has already met, firstly, a womanizer and then an old classmate, now a plastic surgeon, successful in their own ways in Kostis' eyes.
These are people, he could have been similarly as successful as, since he is almost the same age as them and of more or equal skills and potential.Inexperienced in handling the psychological implications of his close intimate encounter with Anna, who seems to provide an ideal way out of his misery, the troubled hero is drawn into a schizophrenic approach of the situation, as she, initially ignores and later reacts gradually with astonishment, indifference and repulsion to his passion and clumsy efforts to persuade her into a long term relationship.
The more his desperation and failure grow, the more he tries to bend reality to his needs and violent and intrusive, becomes.In the meantime, starting from the days of seeking Anna's companion and as the situation grows darker and obsessive in his mind, Kostis slips into a more and more unprofessional and cynical attitude regarding his medical duties towards the local community, which in turn traverses the line from embracement to discontent, anger and finally, to his official expulsion.Eventually, Kostis, submitting to his passion and determined to quench his thirst, finds his way to make his love object available to his yearning, though without consent.
Credible representation of aspects of life in a typical Central Aegean Greek island, both during winter and summer.
Above all, from a watcher's point of view, a feeling of familiarity with a lot of the situations unfolding before his eyes, empathy for either or both of the two main characters, depending on his/her past experiences and their aftermath.Certainly, a film to live with and discuss for days to come, after its watching..
An unhappy middle-aged doctor is posted to a Greek island where he meets a hedonistic group of young people, one of which, a beautiful, liberated girl, he falls for.This is the kind of film that puritanical, emotionally stunted Hollywood - and probably even the rest of increasingly Islamified Western Europe - is not capable of making nowadays.
It's brave, bold and beautiful.Casually erotic (the actress who plays the frequently nude Anna could be described as cinematic Viagra), superbly acted by the lead (his character has to plummet to depths that are excruciating to watch) and unnervingly accurate in whatever scene it turns its eye to, it dares to tell a story that is as dark as we all are beneath our exteriors.
And it triumphs.The outraged person who gives this film 1/10 on this site hilariously appears not to have even seen it as they get a major plot point completely wrong..
When the story begins, Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou) has come to the Greek island of Antiparos to become the town's doctor.
However, each summer the place is swamped with touristswild, young and fun-loving tourists.
As for Kostis, he's a dull, emotionally constricted middle-aged man and seems out of his element when a group of crazy young people arrive in his office after a minor accident.
One of them, Anna (Elli Tringou), seems to have taken an inexplicable liking for the dull doctor and she invites him to join them at the beach some time.
Soon, Kostis joins this same group at the beach but he looks very much out of placeand you wonder why they like him.
While most of the bathers are young, tanned and naked, he's a pasty bald manwearing a lot of clothes on a clothing optional beach.
It really seems like Kostis is trying to live his 20s all over againbut is ill- equipped for this wild life.
And, in some ways, it seems as though he is totally aloneeven though he's surrounded by people.Over the following days, Kostis goes out bathing and partying with this same crazy group of young people again and again.
She is interestedbut only in a fleeting waybut Kostis misinterprets this for love.
Of course the film has a lot of nuditysuch is life on many beaches in Greece.
Four words that come to mind while watching Suntan.Prior to watching Suntan, I had preconceived ideas I was about to experience a story, possibly a comedy, about a middle aged male who takes a fancy to a younger female, while on holiday, and misinterpreting her body language during the course of their stay.
There is a middles aged man, Kostis, played brilliantly by Makis Papadimitriou.
There is a girl half his age, Anna, played brilliantly by Elli Tringou.
Taking a shine to Anna, Kostis heads to the beach with aims of getting to know Anna and her friends a little more.
What Anna sees as a bit of fun, Kostis sees as long term love.
It is form this moment, the story turns awkward, sad, dark.Kostis turns to drink, becomes a stalker, before turning into an abductor, that almost leads to rape.
Up until this point, other than the slightly awkward moment here and there, the film makes for good viewing.The whole cast are fantastic.
Its a clear, human, real life story about the life on Greek islands, which all over the year function as typical villages, and during the summer they turn into glamorous resorts of sex, alcohol, orgies, nudism, etc.
In that atmosphere, we can see a personal trauma of Kostis, a lonely, disappointed and failed man, apparently overqualified physician, who has suffered unnamed emotional wrecks in his previous life, and came to the small island to work, as a result of some random circumstances.
It is a man who has not "lived life" at the right moment, and who is, even at mature age, incapable to act as an adult.
So he misplaces his lust for a young oversexualized tourist Anna, who just came to have a fun without any borders , for a life-changing love, turning himself into a complete clown and even a perv.
It is so obvious to a viewer that Kostis sticks to this ridiculous attraction simply because he has a need to regain some meaning in his life, something motivating which would make him alive.
The random appearance of his successful schoolmate as a tourist on the island shows us what he could have been, and what he failed in his professional and private life.
It is clear that Kostis is desperately trying to compensate for that by believing in some heavenly love and relationship which could be an anesthetic for other flows in life.
The girl who is young enough toe be both his mistress and his daughter, is so obviously a parody of the "life changing girl", just Kostis does not see it.The film stops right at the moment when Kostis is just about to fall to the lowest point of the human being behavior.
A loner doctor and his summer love on a Greek island.
Greece has hundreds of islands full of life during the summer but gloomy and melancholic during the winter.
The middle aged doctor is a bit old to start his career from Antiparos but for various reasons that's what he does.
The young doctor falls in love with a young woman but he seems to be a little more serious than he should have.
Sorry but I do not believe the story of the pathetic loser doctor that really falls for a naked cutie that is fooling around with her group.
Still, we don't have to wait too long until the suntan lotion comes out and the Greek Tourist Board can start to smile...at least up to a point.Kostis is the new doctor on the island and he has his fair share of patients for such a small place.
Summer may bring sunshine and the kind of young tourists who give the Greek islands a bad name so it isn't long before Kostis is frequenting the local nudist beach.
When he develops a fixation on Anna, a girl he has treated for a motorbike accident, he seems happier but we know his problems are just beginning.You can tell from the opening shot there's going to be a heart of darkness to Papadimitropoulos' film.
Makis Papadimitriou is very good as Kostis but it's an underwritten role and the film itself feels slightly underwhelming.
The scenery is fabulous and it will certainly make you want to go to the Greek islands though you may want to choose where and exactly what time of the year.