Probashi- Cover Story
Probashi- Cover Story
Picture Abi Baaki Hai Mere Dost and Shahrukh Khan( 2002). By far the most heralded is the 1955 version directed by Bimal Roy with Dilip Kumar in the lead as Devdas, Vyajantimala Bali as Chandramukhi, and Suchitra Sen in her
Bollywood debut as Parvati.
Do Akhey Barah Haat( 1957):
Ei maalik tere bande hum, this prayer song sung acrosss schools in India even today is from the 1957 classic by V Shantaram, Do Akhey Barah Haat
. It was a story no one believed could be made into a film, The Three Devdases of Indian and it was maverick V Shantaram Cinema – KL Saigal ‐ who took the challenge. V 1935( top), Dillip Kumar –
1955( right top), Shahrukh
Shantaram and his wife Sandhya
Khan‐ 20022( right bottom) played the lead roles. Music was by Vasant Desai. Do Ankhein Barah hits and has been described as Haath was inspired by the ' openthe princely Directed and produced by
“ India’ s most revered film ". prison ' experiment in state of Oundh near Pune, aided by Mehboob Khan‐ Nargis, Rajendra an Irish psychiatrist, at a facility Kumar and Sunil Dutt were lead named Swantrapur. Despite colour players. It is the story of a poverty‐ who film technology being available, stricken village woman Shantaram choose to film in Black through many a hardship brings up
and White, giving the argument her two sonss. However in the end that there is no colour in prison life. kills one of her son who has grown Shantaram did not use a duplicate up to be a dacoit. She makes this to film the scene in the film where sacrifice for the greater moral he fights barehanded with a raging good. Mother India became a bull. He was seriously hurt in the symbol of the strength of the eye and had to be hospitalised. In Indian woman. Naushad was on hospital, the indomitable exclusive retainership for scoring Shantaram wrote the script for music for Mother India for a another film
. In his autobiography, princely feee of Rs. 20000 per Shantaram recalls the cold response month. Nargis excelled in this film, from Bollywood bigwigs after a predespite only being aged 26 at the release screening at Rajkamal time, she plays the role of the new studios. The film went on to win the wife, young single mother and an aged mother of two adult sons.
Golden Bear at Berlin film festival She pulls off all the three roles with and was a commercial success. Such alacrity. For the flood scene a is the universal appeal of the song farmer agreed to flood 500 acres of from the film e Malik Tere Bande his land freee of cost, however he Hum that it has been adopted as a was compensated later. Nargis prayer song in a school in Pakistan. actually worked in the muddy flood waters, which caused her skin
Mother India( 1957): The film ranks allergies. Nargis and Dutt acted in among the all‐time Indian box office the fire scene in the movie without
duplicates. During shooting Nargis was trapped in the fire, she was saved by Sunil Dutt, who was hospitalised due to burn injuries.
Nargis nursed
Sunil Dutt back to health and they got married after the movie shooting was completed. Film was a big international hit. In Algeria, Cinematheque Algerienne was showing the movie even after 10 years of its release to packed house. Amazing how a story about a family in rural India caught the imagination of a primarily Arab audience.