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 .