Anuraag (1972 film)

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Anuraag
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Directed by Shakti Samanta
Written byVrajendra Gaur
Screenplay byMadhusudhan Kalelkar
Binoy Chatterjee
Story byShakti Samanta
Produced byShakti Samanta
Starring Ashok Kumar
Nutan
Rajesh Khanna
Vinod Mehra
Moushmi Chatterjee
CinematographyAloke Das Gupta
Edited byBijoy Choudhury
Music by S. D. Burman
Production
company
Shakti Films
Distributed byUnited Producers
Release date
December 1972 (1972-12)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Anuraag is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Moushumi Chatterjee in her debut as a heroine and Vinod Mehra in lead roles. The Shakti Samanta fixture Rajesh Khanna, having earlier made Aradhana (1969) and Kati Patang (1971) with Samanta, makes a special appearance. The music is by S. D. Burman. Initially, Shakti Samanta was thinking whether to make this film or not as he was not sure if the distributors would buy a film with such a story line and had shared the idea with Rajesh Khanna, who encouraged Samanta and volunteered to make an extended appearance for the film, and also distributed the film under the banner "Shakti-Raj" (indicating Shakti Samanta and Rajesh Khanna). [1]

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The film became a semi-hit, while doing extremely well in big cities. [2] and won the Filmfare Best Movie Award for the year. It was later remade into the Telugu film Anuragalu (1975) with Sridevi in her first leading role. A. Bhimsingh also remade it in Malayalam as Raagam (1975). It was also remade in Tamil as Neela Malargal (1979), and in Kannada as Chiranjeevi (1976), with Manjula and Srinath.

Plot

A blind sculptor, Shivani (Moushumi Chatterjee) stays in an ashram and makes friends with a young boy Chandan(Satyajeet), who is suffering from cancer. She falls in love with Rajesh (Vinod Mehra). Rajesh asks his parents to permit him to marry her, to which his mother agrees, but his father refuses. Then, an eye specialist reveals that an eye replacement would cure her. Later, as a dying wish, the young boy donates his eyes to her. [3]

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film contains 5 songs. The music is composed by S.D. Burman, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi [4]

Anuraag
Soundtrack album by
S. D. Burman
ReleasedDecember 1, 1973 (1973-12-01) [5]
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length25:00
Language Hindi
Label Saregama
Producer S. D. Burman
S. D. Burman chronology
Zindagi Zindagi
(1972)		Anuraag
(1973)		 Abhimaan
(1973)
Songs
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Sun Ri Pawan Pawan Purvaiya" Lata Mangeshkar 3:33
2."Tere Nainon Ke Main Deep Jalaoonga" Lata Mangeshkar & Mohammed Rafi 3:36
3."Ram Kare Babua (with Dialogues)" Kishore Kumar 4:15
4."Neend Churayi Chain Churaye" Lata Mangeshkar 4:13
5."Piya Bina Piya Bina" Lata Mangeshkar 4:11
6."Mera Raja Beta Boojhe Ek Paheli" Lata Mangeshkar 4:05
7."Anuraag Theme (Instrumental)" S.D. Burman 6:11
Total length:25:00

Awards and nominations

21st Filmfare Awards :

Won

Nominated

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References

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  2. ↑ "Box Office 1972". Box Office India. 20 October 2013. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Anuraag (1972) Rediff.com Movies.
  4. ↑ Anuraag 1972
  5. ↑ "Anuraag". Apple Music. 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
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