'WEST SIDE STORY'..60!

Dance sequence from Hollywood Musical 'West Side Story' (1961).

 

One of my favourite Hollywood Musicals..'West Side Story's 60th anniversary recently happened!

 'West Side Story's (1961) legendary filmmaker Robert Wise!

 'The Sound of Music' fame legendary film - maker Robert Wise produced & directed this 'West Side Story' before that in 1961. This film was an - adaptation of 1957 Broadway musical which was conceived by its choreographer Jerome Robbins with the music of Leonard Bernstein. Both also did their same great jobs for the film which superbly made by.. Wise with excellent cinematography of Daniel L. Fapp.

Bollywood movie 'Josh's (2000) poster!

This musical was inspired by Shakespeare's famous romantic play 'Romeo and Juliet'. 

On that Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay of film 'West Side Story', in which two youngsters from rivalary gangs falls in love and that creates tensions among their respective friends! 

Artists like Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno & George Chakiris played the Main roles effectively in it.

'West Side Story' won various prestigious awards includes 'Golden Globe', 'Grammy' and 11 'Oscars'!

Our Bollywood movie 'Josh' (2000) was inspired by 'West Side Story'. Mansoor Khan directed in this movie Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, - Chandrachur Singh & Sharad Kapoor played the main roles. This also became hit!

A Tribute to Hollywood musical!!

- Manoj Kulkarni