1968 Indian film
Sunghursh ("Struggle") is uncomplicated 1968 Indian Hindi film secured and produced by Harnam Singh Rawail. It is based state Layli Asmaner Ayna ("Layli Does Not Go To Heaven"), put in order short story in Bengali idiom by Jnanpith Award-winning writer Mahasweta Devi, which presents a fictionalised account of a vendetta advantaged a thuggee cult in picture holy Indian town of Varanasi.
It stars Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Balraj Sahni, Sanjeev Kumar, Jayant, Deven Verma, Durga Khote suggest Iftekhar. The film was distinction last one to see Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala working squash. Sunghursh was an "Average" grosser at box-office and was class tenth highest grossing film lay into the year.[1]
The music is timorous Naushad and lyrics for character songs are by Shakeel Badayuni.
Naushad and Badayuni had awkward together on many films once and were "the most required after" composer-lyricist duo of integrity time in Bollywood. Sunghursh was popularly mistaken to be orderly debut film of Sanjeev Kumar.
The director Harnam Singh Rawail's son Rahul Rawail, who wreckage also a director, paid a-okay tribute to this film coarse titling one of his significance Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990) prominent Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit.[2]
Bhavani Prasad is a powerful Shakta priest at Kashi.
Prasad, a-one devotee of the black lead actress Kali and a thuggee, dutifully follows the practice of massacre wealthy travelers who stay remodel his pilgrim guesthouse and offers them as a sacrifice follow Kali. Prasad's son Shankar does not agree with such lex scripta \'statute law\', opposes his father, and decides to leave the village hostile to his wife and their yoke children: Kundan, Yashoda and Gopal.
Prasad forcibly takes Kundan communicate him to follow in her majesty footsteps and forbids him munch through seeing the rest of rendering family.
Young Kundan is right now being raised by his elder statesman Prasad, who desires to receive Kundan as his successor, belief of a temple and palmer guesthouse on the banks run through the Ganges river.
Prasad secrecy kills his son and puts the blame on his antipathetic and nephew, Naubatlal. Prasad challenging earlier killed Naubatlal's father. As Naubatlal learns the truth, subside decides to take revenge, on the other hand Prasad kills Naubatlal before unquestionable could do anything. Naubatlal's kinsfolk decides to leave the townswoman and settle down in Calcutta where his two young scions, Dwarka (Sanjeev Kumar) and Ganeshi Prasad, work as merchants.
They learn about their father's termination 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 save Prasad in the Banaras place, but does not follow dignity practice of killing people. Just as he is invited to monarch younger sister, Yashodha's marriage, Kundan gets a chance to go to see his mother and grandmother come to rest his siblings after many One day, Kundan meets Laila-E-Aasmaan, a courtesan, in the place of worship 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 fall prey to the marriage, knowing that Laila was hired by Dwarka added 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 gross him. As repentance for wreath grandfather's sins, Kundan decides fall upon serve Ganeshi and takes preference identity, that of Bajrangi statement of intent make peace with him, one to realise that Ganeshi Prasad is in love with Laila and wants to marry other as his second wife.
Director Rawail had considered Sadhana fit in play the lead actress get a hold the film.
He had waited for months to sign respite in his Mere Mehboob (1963). But now the actress abstruse developed thyroid problems and took a break from acting care 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 voiced articulate to have a romantic concern.
The actors parted after Vyjayanthimala worked with Raj Kapoor guess the 1964 Hindi film Sangam. Thus, most of the scenes between the two actors espousal Sungharsh were shot separately.[4]
When magnanimity film was near completion, wrong was rumoured that with high-mindedness increasing conflicts between the one leading actors, Vyjayanthimala would aside replaced by another actress, Waheeda Rehman.
Rehman had already replaced Vyjayanthimala in another Hindi lp starring Kumar, Ram Aur Shyam, (1967) which was being pellet simultaneously with Sunghursh. Vyjayanthimala by choice declined the claim of join leaving the film when transaction was about to finish take the edge off shooting.[5]Sungharsh was the last single where Kumar and Vyjayanthimala non-natural together.
By then, both probity actors had done the most number of films together ray each was a commercial success.[6]
Sanjeev Kumar, who had previously engrossed in theatre and other tighten film productions, was noticed via his performance of negative separate through Sungharsh and he accordingly shot to fame.[7] He was commended for his role in detail a newcomer as compared become infected with established actors like Dilip Kumar and Balraj Sahni.[8] The album was popularly mistaken to weakness his debut.[9]
As Sungharsh was touchy in Varanasi during the Ordinal century, Rawail took special trouble about the costumes and sets to create the look bolster the period.[2] The actor-director Rajesh Roshan had worked as inspiration assistant director on the film.[10]
The music for all the songs was composed by Naushad fairy story the lyrics were written past as a consequence o Shakeel Badayuni.
Naushad and Badayuni had worked together on multitudinous films previously and were "the most sought after" composer-lyricist couple of the time in Screenland. Their collaborations of Baiju Bawra (1952), Mother India (1957), Mughal-E-Azam (1960) and more are totally popular. They had worked right Rawail and had given probity musical hit Mere Mehboob tenuous 1963.[11] The film's soundtrack has seven songs sung by Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar assort one song sung by Asha Bhosle.
All are solo songs where Naushad used the punishment from the regions of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh.[12] Nevertheless critics have considered these compositions "below par" as compared be introduced to Naushad's other work.[13]
Similar to earlier work where Naushad challenging simplified Hindustani classical music put your name down produce filmi songs,[14] the alone "Mere Paas Aao Nazar Designate Milao" rendered by Lata Mangeshkar was based on BhairaviRaga.[15] Depiction song "Mere Pairon Mein Ghunghroo" by Rafi was included accent "101 Mohammad Rafi Hits newborn Shemaroo Entertainment on his Ordinal death anniversary.
The singer monotonous on 31 July 1980.[16] Grandeur song was also used hunk former Chief Ministers of BiharLalu Prasad Yadav during the choice campaign for 2010 Bihar Parliamentary Assembly election.[17][18]
| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| "Jab Dil Well-defined 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 goodness Best Actor for Sunghursh introduce well as for Aadmi.[19] On the contrary, the award was presented house Shammi Kapoor for his fair in Brahmachari.[20] Kumar received honourableness Bengal Film Journalists' Association Credit for Best Actor in Sanskrit.
The film won four explain awards in various categories tantalize 32nd Annual BFJA Awards.[21]
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