Anari (1959 film)

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Anari
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Poster
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Written by Inder Raj Anand
Produced byL. B. Lachman
Starring Raj Kapoor
Nutan
Motilal
Lalita Pawar
CinematographyJaywant Pathare
Edited byHrishikesh Mukherjee
Music by Shankar Jaikishan
Release date
  • 16 January 1959 (1959-01-16)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Anari is a 1959 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Motilal and Lalita Pawar. The music was by Shankar Jaikishan and the lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra. This was among the few films in which Lalita Pawar played a positive role and Motilal a role with shades of grey. The film was remade in Tamil as Pasamum Nesamum (1964) and in Turkish as Derbeder (1960), Enayi  [ tr ] (1974). [1]

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Anari was released on 16 January 1959 and met with critical acclaim. Film critics had praised the screenplay and performances of lead actors in the film. Subsequently, it became the highest-grossing film of 1959 with Box Office India declaring it "Super Hit".

Plot

Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome, and intelligent young man. Working only as a sole trader painter, he is unable to earn a living, including paying rent to his kind-hearted and talkative landlady, Mrs. D'sa. One day, Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the owner, Mr. Ramnath. Ramnath admires Raj; satisfied with his honesty, he employs Raj to work in his office as a clerk. Raj meets Ramnath's maidservant Asha and they fall in love with each other. This all ends when Raj finds out that Asha is really Aarti, the niece of his employer. Unfortunately, his landlady Mrs. D'sa dies suddenly consuming medicine manufactured by Mr. Ramnath. The police conduct a post-mortem and as a result, conclude that someone poisoned Mrs. D'sa. The police take Raj for questioning as the prime suspect, arrest him, and hold him in jail. In the trial, however, Ramnath admits full responsibility for the tainted medicine, clearing Raj of the charges. Aarti tells Raj she promised Mrs. D'sa she would take care of him, someone who is "as big an idiot as the world is clever," giving a sense that they will marry. [2]

Cast

Soundtrack

#TitleSinger(s)Music DirectorLyricistDuration
1"Dil Ki Nazar Se" Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh Shankar Jaikishan Shailendra 04:38
2"Nineteen Fifty Six"Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey Manna Dey, Shankar JaikishanShailendra04:59
3"Woh Chand Khila Woh Tare"Lata Mangeshkar, MukeshShankar JaikishanHasrat Jaipuri04:13
4"Sab Kuchh Seekha Ham Ne"MukeshShankar JaikishanShailendra03:40
5"Ban Ke Panchhi Gaaye Pyar Ka Tarana"Lata MangeshkarShankar Jaikishan Hasrat Jaipuri 03:35
6"Kisi Ki Muskurahaton Pe"MukeshShankar JaikishanShailendra04:31
7"Tera Jana"Lata MangeshkarShankar JaikishanShailendra03:41

Trivia

Motilal plays Nutan's uncle in the film. In real life, he lived with Nutan's mother, Shobhana Samarth.

In the office scene Mukri says " Aaj ka kaam Kal Karo, Kal ka kaam parson..." this dialogue was repeated by Hrishikesh Mukherjee in his 1979 film Gol Maal .

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References

  1. ↑ ""Enge Thaan Povaai" – Pasamum Nesamum (1964) – Tamil Feature Film". thesouthernnightingale.net. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  2. ↑ 2:35:50 in the film, available e.g. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HujdhyUcfrw
  3. ↑ "7th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals . Retrieved 4 September 2011.
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