This movie was a murder mystery. It was produced by G P Sippy and directed by Pramod Chakraborty.
The movie had Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman,Rehman, Shashikala,Johny Walker etc. in it.
There were seven songs in it which were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri. Music was composed by O P Nayyar.
“1857” was produced and directed by Mohan Sinha. The movie had Surendra, Suraiyya, Nigar Sultana, Vasti, Laxmi etc in it.
The movie had eight songs in it. Sajjad Hussain was the music director.
“1942 A Love Story” (1993) was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Vidu Vinod Chopra.
The movie had Anil Kapoor and Manisha Koirala in lead roles.
The music of this song save the day for the movie. The music composed by R D Burman had come to public domain after R D Burman was no more and some people at that time described this as the best work by R D Burman.
This review is written by Peevesie’s mom
Though made in 1998, the movie itself had its story based in Pre independence India. It showed how the common folk reacted to the Hindu Muslim tensions back then. Even feelings as tender as love was given a kick when it came to religious sentiments. (At least that is what all the movies that are placed in that period depict. Sometimes I feel that thank god we were not born back then. But then I do not think we are living any differently even now in the 2000s, are we?).
This movie was part of Deepa Mehta’s Elements trilogy-Fire (1996), Earth (1998) and lastly Water (2005). She was inspired by Ismat Chugtai’s 1941 story Lihaf (The Quilt) for Fire. Earth was inspired from the Ice Candyman (1988) which was written by Bapsi Sidhwa (I think). And finally Water was set in the India of 1938 and explored the lives of widows at an ashram in Kashi (Varanasi). This was later written into a novel by Bapsi Sidwa in 2006 (case of reverse inspiration here).
1947 Earth starred Aamir Khan, Rahul Khanna & Nandita Das in the main lead. Shabana Azmi played the character the little Parsi girl grows up into. The movie was critically acclaimed (do not know anything about its commercial standing).
This review is written by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh
This film 300 DAYS AND AFTER – 1938 is one such film, which I had seen in Hyderabad,m ay be somewhere in 1949 or 1950 or so, or may be a little later-not very sure.
This film was based on or in today’s language ” inspired” by MGM’s ” A Billionair’s story” in which Edward Arnold and Mary Nash had acted under the Direction of the legendary Haward Hawks.
This was the first comedy film of Sarvottam Badami,the director.
Badami was born in Bangalore and worked as a Car mechanic ,though he was attracted towards films. He was called to Bombay to organise and help in the sound recording of a Tamil film from Sagar Movietone. Seeing his interest in films and the knowledge of languages, he was offered the chance to complete the direction of a half made Tamil film. He grabbed the opportunity and succeeded. His first few Hindi films were social like Chandrahasa, Grihlaxmi and Dr.Madhurika.
300 days and after was his first comedy film. When he did a good job of it he got Aap ki Marzi-1939 and Ladies Only-39. After this film Badami left Sagar and started his own Sudama films and went back to social films again.
The film 300 days and after was from Sagar Movietone. The cast of this film was Motilal, Sabita Devi, Miss Bibbo, Yakub, Sankata Prasad(elder brother of character artist Kanhaiyalal), Pesi Patel etc.
Sudhir (Motilal) is a bachelor billionaire,doing nothing and enjoying life to the fullest with wine, women and gambling. As a result, his health starts falling prematurely when he is just 25-26 yrs only.
one day he falls down and a Doctor is called. After many tests and inspection of everything his family doctor tells him that because of his wayward living and uncontrolled lifestyle he is suffering from many ailments.If he treats them now, he may get all those again and again. The only remedy is Sudhir should do hard manual work, exercises and lead a simple living, which,the doctor says, Sudhir will never be able to do.
Sudhir is angry. He challenges the doctor that he will leave all his wealth, go out in the world, do physical work and earn money for himself. The doctor takes a bet with him and the deal is Sudhir should go out for 300 days without using a single paisa from his existing wealth for himself. Sudhir is ready for this.
Next day Sudhir goes out with few ordinary clothes, little money and a strong will to face the big bad world.
The film is full of funny situations when Motilal gets different jobs and does not know how to do them. First he tries to work as a Vegetable vendor, but he does not know the names of any vegetable.
He even takes some fruits as vegetables,to sell. Next he tries to work as an assitant in a Barber shop, where he shaves off half mustache of a customer. He tries to work as a car driver and a Tram ticket collector also.
Finally, he joins as a worker in a Soap factory, where he has to drive sometimes the Seth’s wife -Ramola devi(Bibbo), who tries to entice him. Sudhir starts likng a typist girl in the factory Sharada(Sabita Devi). Sharada teaches music to Ramola, wife of Seth Laxmi Das. Motilal takes her everyday to the tuition. They start loving each others. Motilal stays with a kind hearted Vegetable vendor woman as a tenant. She tends to him , feeds him well and takes his care as her son.
Suddenly the Factory must close down due to some loss. All workers are worried. Motilal secretly sends his own money to the Sethji as an anonymous partner. The Factory is saved.
Now in this all jumble, 300 days come to an end. Surprisingly Motilal finds himself absolutely fit, healthy and understands the meaning of true life and Love. He goes back to the doctor to claim his bet money, which he donates to a school.
Sudhir marries Sharada and brings the kind vegetable vendor lady as his family member to live with him for ever.
There are 9 songs in the film. There are 3 songs each to Miss Bibbo and Sabita Devi.
“Aab e Hayaat” (1955) was directed by Ramanlal Desai for Filmistan. The movie had Premnath, Shashikala, Helen, Smriti Biswas, Pran, Ameeta, Mubarak, S. L. Puri, P. Kailash etc in it.
This movie had Premnath playing a Robinhood like Arabian nights tale character while donning Roman era dress. 🙂
This movie had nine songs in it which were penned by Hasrat Jaipuri and composed by Sardar Malik. The duo were in fact saala-jeeja in the sense that Sardar Malik married Hasrat Jaipuri’s sister. Anu Malik, a later day music director is Sardar Malik’s son.
“Aabroo” (1956) is a movie produced by Uma Chitra productions. Chaturbhuj Doshi directed the movie. The cast of this movie had Kamini Kaushal, Kishore Kumar, Smriti Biswas, Madan Puri, Kesri, Moti Sagar, Ameer Banu, Anwari, Indira Bansal, Kamla Kant, Uma Devi, Achala Sachdev, Roopmala etc in it.
Bulo C Rani was the music director of this obscure movie.
“Aabroo” (1968) was made by the makers of “Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya” (1966). This movie too had B L Rawal as producer, C L Rawal as Director and G L Rawal as lyricist. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Vimi, Rehman, Shashikala, Leela Naidu, Jeevan, Mukri, Sunder, Tun Tun, Lalita Pawar, Nirupa Roy, Niranjan Sharma, Praveen Paul, Ravi Kant, Uma Khosla, Nita etc in it.
Sonik Omi, who had created stunning music in “Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya” (1966) did the same this time round too, but to no avail.
This review is written by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh
AABSHAAR-1953 was a Globe Picture film. It was produced and directed by Hasarat Lucknowi who was essentially a writer. He used to write story, Dialogues, Screen plays and even wrote lyrics in some films. He has about 20 films to his credit in different capacities, but this is the only film where he was Producer/Director.
There were 3 music Directors,Ghulam hyder(3 songs),Bhola Shreshtha(3 songs) and Mohd.Shafi(2 songs).
There were 3 Lyricists too.Sarashar Sailani,Vahid Qureshi and Katil Shifai.
The cast included Raaj Kumar(Jaani), Nimmi, Lalita Pawar, Kuldip Kaur, Tiwari, Iftekhar etc.
“Aadhi Raat” (1950) was a Kuldip pictures production. It was directed by S K Ojha. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Nargis in lead roles with Jeevan, Kuldeep, Neelam, Arif, Tiwari, Pratima Devi, Cuckoo etc also in it.
The movie had nine songs in it. Eight of them were composed by Husnlal Bhagatram and one by Hansraj Bahl.
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