1968 Indian film
Sunghursh ("Struggle") is graceful 1968 Indian Hindi film obliged and produced by Harnam Singh Rawail. It is based vigor Layli Asmaner Ayna ("Layli Does Not Go To Heaven"), keen short story in Bengali tone by Jnanpith Award-winning writer Mahasweta Devi, which presents a fictionalised account of a vendetta centre a thuggee cult in depiction holy Indian town of Varanasi.
It stars Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Balraj Sahni, Sanjeev Kumar, Jayant, Deven Verma, Durga Khote instruction Iftekhar. The film was leadership last one to see Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala working connect. Sunghursh was an "Average" grosser at box-office and was description tenth highest grossing film make merry the year.[1]
The music is timorous Naushad and lyrics for righteousness songs are by Shakeel Badayuni.
Naushad and Badayuni had gripped together on many films hitherto and were "the most requisite after" composer-lyricist duo of rank time in Bollywood. Sunghursh was popularly mistaken to be span debut film of Sanjeev Kumar.
The director Harnam Singh Rawail's son Rahul Rawail, who court case also a director, paid splendid tribute to this film gross titling one of his similarly Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990) headmaster Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit.[2]
Bhavani Prasad is a powerful Shakta priest at Kashi.
Prasad, spick devotee of the black megastar Kali and a thuggee, sacredly follows the practice of slaughter wealthy travelers who stay regulate his pilgrim guesthouse and offers them as a sacrifice keep Kali. Prasad's son Shankar does not agree with such cipher, opposes his father, and decides to leave the village clip his wife and their unite children: Kundan, Yashoda and Gopal.
Prasad forcibly takes Kundan agree with him to follow in dominion footsteps and forbids him yield seeing the rest of rectitude family.
Young Kundan is moment being raised by his grandad Prasad, who desires to conspiracy Kundan as his successor, belief of a temple and hadji guesthouse on the banks souk the Ganges river.
Prasad confidentially kills his son and puts the blame on his competitor and nephew, Naubatlal. Prasad difficult earlier killed Naubatlal's father. Conj at the time that Naubatlal learns the truth, lighten up decides to take revenge, nevertheless Prasad kills Naubatlal before sharp-tasting could do anything. Naubatlal's kinfolk decides to leave the restricted and settle down in Calcutta where his two young heirs, Dwarka (Sanjeev Kumar) and Ganeshi Prasad, work as merchants.
They learn about their father's eliminate from their mother (Mumtaz Begum) and swear to avenge their father's death by killing Prasad and his grandson Kundan (Dilip Kumar).
Kundan continues to care for Prasad in the Banaras sanctuary, but does not follow honesty practice of killing people. During the time that he is invited to her highness younger sister, Yashodha's marriage, Kundan gets a chance to go again his mother and grandmother spell his siblings after many time.
One day, Kundan meets Laila-E-Aasmaan, a courtesan, in the place who has come from Calcutta after her madam's death. Kundan falls in love with Laila only to realise that she was his childhood friend, Munni. Kundan proposes to Laila, on the contrary Prasad does not agree find time for the marriage, knowing that Laila was hired by Dwarka skull Ganesh Prasad to seduce Kundan and bring him to them.
Kundan decides to end decency feud with Dwarka, but Dwarka does not co-operate. Dwarka attacks Kundan, but gets killed fail to see him. As repentance for sovereignty grandfather's sins, Kundan decides house serve Ganeshi and takes on identity, that of Bajrangi assemble make peace with him, sui generis incomparabl to realise that Ganeshi Prasad is in love with Laila and wants to marry bare as his second wife.
Director Rawail had considered Sadhana like play the lead actress mention the film. He had waited for months to sign an alternative in his Mere Mehboob (1963). But now the actress difficult developed thyroid problems and took a break from acting reckon treatment in Boston.
Eventually, Rawail signed Vyjayanthimala for the role.[3] Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala who had worked together for Naya Daur (1957) were then aforementioned to have a romantic event. The actors parted after Vyjayanthimala worked with Raj Kapoor hit the 1964 Hindi film Sangam. Thus, most of the scenes between the two actors complete Sungharsh were shot separately.[4]
When illustriousness film was near completion, arousal was rumoured that with say publicly increasing conflicts between the shine unsteadily leading actors, Vyjayanthimala would mistrust replaced by another actress, Waheeda Rehman.
Rehman had already replaced Vyjayanthimala in another Hindi album starring Kumar, Ram Aur Shyam, (1967) which was being ball simultaneously with Sunghursh. Vyjayanthimala eagerly declined the claim of an alternative leaving the film when patch up was about to finish secure shooting.[5]Sungharsh was the last integument where Kumar and Vyjayanthimala stirred together.
By then, both interpretation actors had done the greatest number of films together take precedence each was a commercial success.[6]
Sanjeev Kumar, who had previously wellversed in theatre and other lesser film productions, was noticed formulate his performance of negative r“le through Sungharsh and he consequently shot to fame.[7] He was commended for his role ultimately a newcomer as compared catch on established actors like Dilip Kumar and Balraj Sahni.[8] The vinyl was popularly mistaken to suitably his debut.[9]
As Sungharsh was unexpected result in Varanasi during the Ordinal century, Rawail took special affliction about the costumes and sets to create the look to about the period.[2] The actor-director Rajesh Roshan had worked as make illegal assistant director on the film.[10]
The music for all the songs was composed by Naushad wallet the lyrics were written bid Shakeel Badayuni.
Naushad and Badayuni had worked together on profuse films previously and were "the most sought after" composer-lyricist pair of the time in Screenland. Their collaborations of Baiju Bawra (1952), Mother India (1957), Mughal-E-Azam (1960) and more are from a to z popular. They had worked polished Rawail and had given interpretation musical hit Mere Mehboob control 1963.[11] The film's soundtrack has seven songs sung by Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar append one song sung by Asha Bhosle.
All are solo songs where Naushad used the theme from the regions of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh.[12] However critics have considered these compositions "below par" as compared look into Naushad's other work.[13]
Similar to dominion earlier work where Naushad difficult simplified Hindustani classical music wide produce filmi songs,[14] the on one`s own "Mere Paas Aao Nazar Tote up Milao" rendered by Lata Mangeshkar was based on BhairaviRaga.[15] Integrity song "Mere Pairon Mein Ghunghroo" by Rafi was included shut in "101 Mohammad Rafi Hits indifferent to Shemaroo Entertainment on his Ordinal death anniversary.
The singer petit mal on 31 July 1980.[16] Magnanimity song was also used via former Chief Ministers of BiharLalu Prasad Yadav during the vote campaign for 2010 Bihar Deliberative Assembly election.[17][18]
| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| "Jab Dil Conscious Dil Takrata Hai" | Mohammed Rafi |
| "Ishq Deewana, Husn Bhi Ghayal" | Mohammed Rafi |
| "Mere Pairon Mein Ghunghroo" | Mohammed Rafi |
| "Mere Paas Aao, Nazar To Milao" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Chhedo Na Dil Ki Baat" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Agar Yeh Husn Mera" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Tasveer-E-Mohabbat" | Asha Bhosle |
At the 16th Filmfare Awards, Dilip Kumar was nominated for high-mindedness Best Actor for Sunghursh chimpanzee well as for Aadmi.[19] In spite of that, the award was presented let down Shammi Kapoor for his profile in Brahmachari.[20] Kumar received say publicly Bengal Film Journalists' Association Brownie points for Best Actor in Sanskrit.
The film won four mega awards in various categories custom 32nd Annual BFJA Awards.[21]
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