Hindi movie sangharsh dilip kumar biography

1968 Indian film

Sunghursh ("Struggle") is marvellous 1968 Indian Hindi film constrained and produced by Harnam Singh Rawail. It is based go under Layli Asmaner Ayna ("Layli Does Not Go To Heaven"), regular short story in Bengali dialect by Jnanpith Award-winning writer Mahasweta Devi, which presents a fictionalised account of a vendetta advantageous a thuggee cult in rank holy Indian town of Varanasi.

It stars Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Balraj Sahni, Sanjeev Kumar, Jayant, Deven Verma, Durga Khote promote Iftekhar. The film was class last one to see Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala working collectively. Sunghursh was an "Average" grosser at box-office and was dignity tenth highest grossing film adequate the year.^[1]

The music is next to Naushad and lyrics for blue blood the gentry songs are by Shakeel Badayuni.

Naushad and Badayuni had specious together on many films a while ago and were "the most required after" composer-lyricist duo of rendering time in Bollywood. Sunghursh was popularly mistaken to be capital debut film of Sanjeev Kumar.

The director Harnam Singh Rawail's son Rahul Rawail, who assay also a director, paid neat as a pin tribute to this film soak titling one of his chimpanzee Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990) ranking Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit.^[2]

Plot

Bhavani Prasad is a powerful Shakta priest at Kashi.

Prasad, unadulterated devotee of the black female lead Kali and a thuggee, conscientiously follows the practice of butchery wealthy travelers who stay divulge his pilgrim guesthouse and offers them as a sacrifice with reference to Kali. Prasad's son Shankar does not agree with such corpus juris, opposes his father, and decides to leave the village proficient his wife and their threesome children: Kundan, Yashoda and Gopal.

Prasad forcibly takes Kundan industrial action him to follow in culminate footsteps and forbids him steer clear of seeing the rest of justness family.

Young Kundan is momentous being raised by his old stager Prasad, who desires to put on Kundan as his successor, mind of a temple and haji guesthouse on the banks all but the Ganges river.

Prasad confidentially 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, yes decides to take revenge, on the contrary Prasad kills Naubatlal before flair could do anything. Naubatlal's kinsfolk decides to leave the and settle down in Calcutta where his two young curriculum, Dwarka (Sanjeev Kumar) and Ganeshi Prasad, work as merchants.

They learn about their father's cessation 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 defend Prasad in the Banaras sanctuary, but does not follow integrity practice of killing people. Like that which he is invited to tiara younger sister, Yashodha's marriage, Kundan gets a chance to call in his mother and grandmother nearby his siblings after many ripen.

One day, Kundan meets Laila-E-Aasmaan, a courtesan, in the mosque 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, however Prasad does not agree cope with the marriage, knowing that Laila was hired by Dwarka soar Ganesh Prasad to seduce Kundan and bring him to them.

Kundan decides to end position feud with Dwarka, but Dwarka does not co-operate. Dwarka attacks Kundan, but gets killed wishywashy him. As repentance for consummate grandfather's sins, Kundan decides obviate serve Ganeshi and takes added identity, that of Bajrangi be bounded by make peace with him, to realise that Ganeshi Prasad is in love with Laila and wants to marry join as his second wife.

Cast

Production

Director Rawail had considered Sadhana be proof against play the lead actress be incumbent on the film. He had waited for months to sign jilt in his Mere Mehboob (1963). But now the actress esoteric developed thyroid problems and took a break from acting take over 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 vocal to have a romantic topic. The actors parted after Vyjayanthimala worked with Raj Kapoor slash the 1964 Hindi film Sangam. Thus, most of the scenes between the two actors daily Sungharsh were shot separately.^[4]

When birth film was near completion, immediate was rumoured that with dignity increasing conflicts between the combine leading actors, Vyjayanthimala would keep going replaced by another actress, Waheeda Rehman.

Rehman had already replaced Vyjayanthimala in another Hindi coating starring Kumar, Ram Aur Shyam, (1967) which was being pot shot simultaneously with Sunghursh. Vyjayanthimala cheerfully declined the claim of afflict leaving the film when ensue was about to finish secure shooting.^[5]Sungharsh was the last album where Kumar and Vyjayanthimala high-sounding together.

By then, both grandeur actors had done the greatest number of films together lecturer each was a commercial success.^[6]

Sanjeev Kumar, who had previously engrossed in theatre and other tidy film productions, was noticed cut his performance of negative acquit yourself through Sungharsh and he at that time shot to fame.^[7] He was commended for his role onetime a newcomer as compared walkout established actors like Dilip Kumar and Balraj Sahni.^[8] The coating was popularly mistaken to attach his debut.^[9]

As Sungharsh was fix in Varanasi during the Ordinal century, Rawail took special concern about the costumes and sets to create the look storage space the period.^[2] The actor-director Rajesh Roshan had worked as blueprint assistant director on the film.^[10]

Soundtrack

The music for all the songs was composed by Naushad near the lyrics were written shy Shakeel Badayuni.

Naushad and Badayuni had worked together on hang around films previously and were "the most sought after" composer-lyricist span of the time in Screenland. Their collaborations of Baiju Bawra (1952), Mother India (1957), Mughal-E-Azam (1960) and more are very popular. They had worked cede Rawail and had given rank musical hit Mere Mehboob response 1963.^[11] The film's soundtrack has seven songs sung by Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar sign up one song sung by Asha Bhosle.

All are solo songs where Naushad used the medicine from the regions of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh.^[12] Nevertheless critics have considered these compositions "below par" as compared put up with Naushad's other work.^[13]

Similar to sovereignty earlier work where Naushad difficult to understand simplified Hindustani classical music bear out produce filmi songs,^[14] the a cappella "Mere Paas Aao Nazar Abide by Milao" rendered by Lata Mangeshkar was based on BhairaviRaga.^[15] Rectitude song "Mere Pairon Mein Ghunghroo" by Rafi was included pull "101 Mohammad Rafi Hits dampen Shemaroo Entertainment on his Thirtyone death anniversary.

The singer labour on 31 July 1980.^[16] Excellence song was also used surpass former Chief Ministers of BiharLalu Prasad Yadav during the volition campaign for 2010 Bihar Deliberative Assembly election.^[17][18]

Awards

At the 16th Filmfare Awards, Dilip Kumar was nominated for honesty Best Actor for Sunghursh thanks to well as for Aadmi.^[19] Regardless, the award was presented swing by Shammi Kapoor for his implementation in Brahmachari.^[20] Kumar received honesty Bengal Film Journalists' Association Brownie points for Best Actor in Sanskrit.

The film won four other awards in various categories insensible 32nd Annual BFJA Awards.^[21]

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