Their father’s musical career has suffered a setback because of a defeat in a qawwali “duel” with the party of the legendary Daulat Khan, and Mubarak Ali beseeches Aman’s poetic help in winning a rematch. The younger, Shabab (“youth”) is a mischievous flirt, but the elder, Shama (her name means “candle” and refers to the standard moth-and-flame trope in Urdu love poetry) is deeply in love with the young boarder.
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it has a memorable score, with lyrics by the great Sahir Ludhianvi (an Urdu poet doubtless most in his element when-as here-composing for a film about Urdu poets), sung by a stellar list of playback singers, and culminating in a series of dazzling qawwaliperformances (of love-saturated and Sufi-inflected couplets on the pleasures and pains of love) that are among the best ever filmed.Īfter a credit sequence accompanied by a charming light-classical song of the rainy season ( Garajta barasta saavana aayo re, “Oh friend, the thundering rains have come ”), the story opens with the struggling poet Aman Hyderabadi (Bharat Bhushan, i.e., “Bhooshan” in the credits) temporarily lodging with Mubarak Ali of Gulbarga, a qawwali maestro and his two performing daughters.it offers three notably strong female characters, superbly played by talented actresses, including the incomparable Madhubala, then at the height of her career (cf.CHAUDVIN KA CHAND), which offers a contemporary and essentially secular tale centered around main characters who happen to South Asian Muslims, fairly realistically depicts their cultural and social life, and features chaste and elegant Urdu/Hindi with a rich Persian resonance. it belongs to the comparatively rare category of “Muslim social” (cf.
Batish, Shankar Shamboo, Balbir, Suman Kalyanpur, Kamla Barotĭespite the poor image quality and subtitles on the available DVD (see below)-there are at least three good reasons to watch (and vah!) this under-appreciated gem of a film: KhochikarĪrt Direction: Gonesh Basak Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Sudha Malhotra, Mohamed Rafi, Manna Dey, S.
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