Storyline
Meena Khosla has an bicycle accident with fellow collegian Mahesh
Kapoor, and after a few misunderstandings both fall in love with each
other. They would like to get married, plan accordingly, and get
intimate. When Mahesh's dad summons him home to get married, Mahesh
initially refuses, but subsequently gives in, and gets married to Malti
Rai. In the meantime, a pregnant Meena is thrown out of the house by her
uncle and aunt, gives birth to baby boy, and abandons the child in a
forest. The child is found by a kind-hearted devout Muslim, Abdul
Rashid, who decides to adopt him, much to the charging of the Hindu and
the Muslim communities. Abdul re-locates to the city, but is unable to
shake the stigma of bringing up an illegitimate child, Roshan, who is
subjected to all kinds of taunts by fellow classmates. Roshan then stops
going to school, meets with Jaggu, a petty thief, who befriends him and
introduces him to a life of crime. Then one day, the police arrest
Roshan for theft,
| Release Date |
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1959 |
| Genre |
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Family, Musical |
| Director |
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Yash Chopra |
| Starring |
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Rajendra
Kumar, Nanda, Mala Sinha, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Manmohan Krishna, Leela
Chitnis, Daisy Irani, Mohan Choti, Uma Dutt, Amir Banu, Jagdish Raj,
Ravikant, Jeevan |
Director
: Yash Chopra
Genre : Family, Musical
Cast : Mala Sinha, Rajendra Kumar, Nanda, Manmohan Krishna, Leela
Chitnis, Daisy Irani, Amir Banu, Mohan Choti, Master Kelly, R.P. Kapoor,
Jagdish Raj, Uma Dutt, Ravikant - See more at:
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Director
: Yash Chopra
Genre : Family, Musical
Cast : Mala Sinha, Rajendra Kumar, Nanda, Manmohan Krishna, Leela
Chitnis, Daisy Irani, Amir Banu, Mohan Choti, Master Kelly, R.P. Kapoor,
Jagdish Raj, Uma Dutt, Ravikant - See more at:
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Alok katdare and Sangeeta Melekar at Yashwant Natya Mandir
Lyrics
hmm hmm
hmm hmm
ho o
aaa aaa
aaa aaa
aaa
jhukti ghataa gaati hawaa sapne jagaaye
nanhaa saa dil meraa machal-machal jaaye
ho ho o
o o
jhukti ghataa gaati hawaa sapne jagaaye
nanhaa saa dil meraa machal-machal jaaye
ho ho o o
hahaha
lalalala
aaaa
mahke huye bahke huye mast nazaare
nikhre huye bikhre huye rang ke dhaare
hmm
mahke huye bahke huye mast nazaare
nikhre huye bikhre huye rang ke dhaare
aaj gagan ho ke magan hamko bulaaye,
jhukti ghataa gaati hawaa sapne jagaaye
nanhaa saa dil meraa machal-machal jaaye
ho ho o o
ho o o
jhukti ghataa gaati hawaa sapne jagaaye
nanhaa saa dil meraa machal-machal jaaye
ho o o o
hmm
rawaanaa hai chhoti si kashti hawaaon ke rukh pe
aaa
nadi ke saaz pe
aaa
mallaah geet gaataa hai
aaa
tumhaaraa jism har ik lahar ke jhakole se
aaa
o meri shareer nigaahon mein jhool jaataa hai
aaa aaa aaa aaa
jism meraa jaan bhi meri tere liye hai
pyaar bhari duniyaa saji tere liye hai
jism meraa jaan bhi meri tere liye hai
pyaar bhari duniyaa saji tere liye hai
aankhon mein chhaaye tere jalwon ke saaye,
jhukti ghataa gaati hawaa sapne jagaaye
nanhaa saa dil meraa machal-machal jaaye
ho o o o
ho o o
jhukti ghataa gaati hawaa sapne jagaaye
nanhaa saa dil meraa machal-machal jaaye
ho o o o
aa haa haa
lalalalala
hmm
Dhool ka Phool (1959)
Yash Chopra’s debut as a director, Dhool ka Phool is unusual in a lot of ways.
Leela Chitnis, for instance, is not a coughing-her-guts out (or basket-making) pathetic old mum.
The hero and heroine travel by train—and that too in trains that go over
bridges—without the train falling into the river or crashing and the
protagonist losing their memory in the process. Or being given up for
dead.
And two people in love in the first half-hour of the film end up moving on in life and not loving each other till the end of time.
On the flip side, it does have a long-lost mother feeling an inexplicable affection towards a strange boy, who for no reason that he can fathom, instinctively calls her “Ma!” It does have a thunderstorm at the end of a love song, with the expected consequences [read: raging hormones, libido and “Humein aisi galti nahin karni chaahiye thhi”]. And it does have Manmohan Krishna being the goodie-two-shoes who stands up for what is right and righteous.
Dhool ka Phool
starts off with a bang. Rather, a crash. Mahesh (Rajendra Kumar,
looking far too old to be playing a college student) is cycling along
and collides with Meena (Mala Sinha), also on a cycle. She’s very
miffed, since the collision has bent the front wheel of her cycle all
out of shape. But Mahesh is gallant and offers to help. After she’s made
some huffy excuses, he ends up escorting her to her home. He apparently
has hidden charms, because by the time she says goodbye to him, Meena
is bestowing shy smiles on Mahesh.
Meena, we see in the next scene, doesn’t have the happiest of domestic lives. She’s an orphan and lives with her chaacha (Jeevan, which—by the mere casting—should give you an idea of how loving an uncle this man is) and chaachi
(Amir Banu). Both uncle and aunt spare no opportunity to tell Meena
just what a burden she is on them, even though her dead father had left
behind Rs 20,000 for Meena’s education and care.
The only one who loves Meena like a daughter is her old daai (Leela Chitnis, for once not looking as if one strong gust of breeze will blow her away. Deceptively, as it later turns out).
Now that Meena’s met Mahesh, they soon [in the usual way of Hindi film jodis in colleges]
find themselves onstage singing a duet. From there, it’s a short step
to singing a duet in a garden. And, when the rain comes pouring down,
taking shelter in a deserted hut [how come there’s always a conveniently placed deserted hut or cave in the vicinity when filmi characters are drenched?].
The inevitable happens; Meena and Mahesh end up being naughty,
and—just as inevitably—end up feeling thoroughly remorseful for what’s
happened. This was sinful of them, they admit, and Mahesh reassures
Meena that they’ll get married soon. This cheers her up considerably.
What Mahesh doesn’t know is that while he’s been here in town studying
in college and whooping it up with his girlfriend, back home his father
(Radhakrishna) has been working like a beaver to have Mahesh set up well
in life. This involves getting his beloved son both a good job and a good wife.
About a month after Mahesh and Meena’s momentous tryst, Mahesh
receives a letter from Daddy, bearing good tidings. A plum job has been
procured for Mahesh. It comes, too, with all the trappings: a house and a
car [and, though Daddy does not mention it, and so Mahesh does not realise, a bride]. Mahesh is summoned home.
And, just as this happens, Meena discovers she is pregnant. Strangely
for someone in a Hindi film, not because she feels nauseous, but because
she has a cramp when she gets up too hurriedly. A wall calendar with a
large photograph of a baby is near at hand for us—and Meena—to realise,
with horror, what the implications of this are.
Meena goes rushing off to tell Mahesh, and he again reassures her:
they will get married, their baby will not be born out of wedlock. He
has to go home to meet his father, and while he’s there, Mahesh will
wheedle Daddy into agreeing to the marriage.
Meena goes home, relieved. Perhaps her life will not fall apart, after all. Mahesh goes off to his hometown [in a train, as I mentioned, that actually manages to cross a river without plunging into it].
…and days pass. Weeks pass. Meena waits, with increasing impatience
and anxiety, for news from Mahesh, but there’s not a squeak out of him.
No letters, no telegrams, no anything. Finally, when she can’t bear it
any more, Meena decides there’s only one option: to go to Mahesh’s
father’s home and see what’s delayed Mahesh’s return.
But, disaster. Meena discovers that Mahesh is getting married. In
fact, as she stands in the street, about to set forth for his house, the
baraat passes by, with Mahesh mounted on a mare [and no,
the sehra isn’t so thick or all-enveloping that it disguises him; Meena
can see, quite clearly, that this is Mahesh and no-one else]. There
is no question about this whole affair; the camera—and Meena—follow,
and it’s clear as crystal: Mahesh has married another girl, Malti
(Nanda).
Meena crawls back home, defeated. And things begin to happen in quick succession. She’s so distraught that her daai asks what’s wrong, and Meena confides in her: only to have chaachi, who’s lying awake in the next room, overhear the sordid confession. Chaacha and chaachi come storming out of their room to heap abuse on Meena. “Tujh jaisi kulta ke liye hamaare ghar mein jagah nahin hai!” they yell, and throw her out of the house in the middle of the night.
What is there for Meena to do? Commit suicide, of course. But just as she’s looking down from the edge of the cliff [why do people in Hindi films always
pause before taking that big leap? Why not just go racing till the edge
and leap off without a second thought?—because that would considerably
shorten the story?]—the daai arrives and pulls Meena back.
She even takes Meena to her own little hut and gives Meena a
surprisingly level-headed lecture: if this is a sin, then it is more
Mahesh’s wrongdoing than Meena’s, for having dumped her in this shameful
way. Meena will have her baby, and will live with the daai for as long as it’s needed.
So Meena gives birth to a son, and they live for a few months with the daai. Then one day, out of the blue, the daai drops dead in the street. [The
absence of coughing and sighing weakly, in the case of Leela Chitnis,
is apparently no guarantee that her character will last till the end of
the movie]. Meena and her baby are suddenly all alone and adrift in the world.
Meena, therefore, does the only thing she can think of: she takes her
baby to its father. She arrives at Mahesh’s house just as he drives up
in his car, and confronts him. This is his child, Meena informs Mahesh,
and as its father, he is responsible for bringing it up. Mahesh blusters
and gets belligerent, telling Meena that she should never have gotten
into this mess in the first place, and that he’s now a married man. How
can he take this baby into his house? When Meena retorts that she will
go into his house and tell his wife that this is her husband’s
illegitimate child, Mahesh asks her what proof there is.
There is none, of course, and Meena is left dumbstruck. Mahesh goes off,
and she—in a fit of rage and helplessness—does the unthinkable [at least by the standards of Hindi cinema’s ultimate-in-self-sacrifice motherhood]: she puts her baby down on a pathway in the middle of a forest and abandons the little tyke.
Shortly after, along this path comes Abdul Rashid (Manmohan Krishna).
He’s surprised to see the baby (which, by now, has acquired a
guardian—a cobra has come slithering along and raised its hood over the
baby as a sign of its protection; rather a cheesy motif that I’d not
expected from Yash Chopra). Abdul Rashid, having marvelled at how
someone can be callous enough to abandon a baby [and also having marvelled over the wonders of the animal world], picks up the baby. He shouts out, asking whose offspring this is, but—receiving no reply—takes the child to his own home.
In his neighbourhood, Abdul Chaacha (as he’s almost universally known)
is initially praised for having taken pity on this poor baby. Then, when
he tries passing the baby on to various neighbours for them to bring up
as their own, people do an about-turn. Who knows whose baby this is,
they say. Is he Hindu? Is he Muslim? And his parents must have been
unmarried, too. Nobody wants to have anything to do with this paap ki gathri, as they label the little bundle.
Abdul, therefore, takes the baby to his own home, and spends the next
few years lavishing all his love and affection on the child, whom he
names Roshan (Sushil Kumar, who went on—a few years later—to play one of
the protagonists in Dosti).
In the meantime, Roshan’s biological parents have gone their own ways.
Mahesh, having gotten over Meena in a jiffy, has settled into blissfully
happy married life with Malti. They’ve also had a son, Ramesh (Daisy
Irani), a precocious and spoilt little brat whom his parents dote on.
Mahesh, in a surprisingly short stretch of time, has gone grey-haired
and in need of very thick glasses, and has also become a well-respected
magistrate.
…and Meena, trying to scrape together a living, has managed to get a job
as the secretary of an advocate named Jagdish Chandra (Ashok Kumar).
She had, on that fateful night when she abandoned her baby, gone rushing
back in a fit of remorse, but by then Abdul Chaacha had already taken
the baby. Meena has not forgiven herself in all these years for that
lapse in maternal duty and affection. This guilt, needling away at her,
makes her commit some startling errors in her job at the beginning (a
typed letter which wanders into a series of ‘mother-child,
mother-child’), but she eventually settles in. Enough for her boss to, a
few years later, propose to her. Meena agrees, and they get married.
And so we end up, a few years after this all started. Abdul Chaacha has
been skimping and enduring hardship so that Roshan may be able to get a
good education, but whichever school Roshan goes to, he ends up being
asked who his father is—and when Roshan can supply no name, the children
start bullying him. Now, in a last-ditch effort to try and get him into
a school where this will not happen, Abdul Chaacha takes Roshan to get
him admitted in yet another school… and who should be there, also
getting admitted (and in Roshan’s class, too) but Roshan’s own
half-brother, Ramesh, who’s been brought by Roshan’s real father?
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