Magic of Movies - 1962

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (Hindi: साहिब बीबी और ग़ुलाम; 'The Master, The Wife and the Knave') is a 1962 Indian Hindi film produced by Guru Dutt and directed by Abrar Alvi. It is based on a Bengali novel, Shaheb Bibi Golam by Bimal Mitra, and is a look into the tragic fall of the haveli-dom and feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot simultaneously exploring a platonic friendship between a beautiful lonely wife (Bibi) of an aristocrat (Sahib) and a career-driven low-income part-time servant (Ghulam). The film's music is by Hemant Kumar and lyrics were by Shakeel Badayuni. The film is also noted for its brilliant cinematography by V. K. Murthy. The film stars Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rehman, Waheeda Rehman and Nazir Hussain.

The film was a major critical success but was a flop at the box office, with critics attributing it to Meena Kumari's performance as Chhoti Bahu, which is regarded as one of the best performances of Hindi cinema. It won four Filmfare Awards, including Best Movie award, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival, and was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars. However it was not accepted as a nominee. The academy wrote a letter to Guru Dutt saying that a woman who drinks was not permissible in their culture. Indiatimes Movies ranks it amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.

Bees Saal Baad ("Twenty Years Later") is a 1962 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film. It was produced by Hemant Kumar, who also gave the music and sings some of the songs. The film marks the directorial debut of Biren Nag, and stars Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen.

The film is a loose adaptation of the Bengali hit thriller Jighansa (1951), which was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles as well as loosely based on Hemendra Kumar Roy's novel 'Nishithini Bivishika'. The film topped the box office chart in 1962, becoming a "super hit."[2] The film became very popular for the song "Kahin Deep Jale", sung by Lata Mangeshkar.Lyricist Shakeel Badayuni wrote all the songs for this movie, out of which Lata Mangeshkar won the Filmfare award for "Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil". For the same song, Shakeel Badayuni was also nominated for the Best Lyricist

Asli-Naqli (English: Real And Fake) is a 1962 Hindi film produced by L.B Lachman and L.B Thakur. The film is directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and stars Dev Anand, Sadhana, Leela Chitnis, Anwar Hussain, Sandhya Roy and Keshto Mukherjee. The film's music is by Shankar Jaikishan and the lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri. The film became a box office hit.

Plot
Anand (Dev Anand) is a spoiled grandson of rich businessman Rai Bahadur (played by Nazir Hussain). His grandfather wants him to marry Rekha (Indira), only daughter and heiress of a rich man, in spite of Anand's disinterest for her. In the ensuring fight, Anand leaves his house to prove his worthiness and ends up in the streets of Bombay (present day Mumbai). There, one person meets Anand and takes Anand to his house in a poor neighborhood.

Anand settles himself there temporarily and tries to find work. He meets a beautiful, educated young woman Renu (Sadhana Shivdasani) and gets impressed with her. She helps him to find a job, but he soon loses it due to his incompetence. Renu works in a small company, but tells her mother (Leela Chitnis) that she is attending college. She lies to her mother that her father is sending them money. When Anand asks, she explains that she is hiding the fact that her father is dead as her mother can't tolerate that news. Anand further impresses her and asks Renu to marry him and she happily agrees.

But Rai Bahadur comes to know about Anand's whereabouts and meets him. He demands that Anand should forget Renu and marry Rekha, to which Anand disagrees. Rai Bahadur blackmails Renu that he would tell her mother about his father's death if she wouldn't marry a different person. Having no other way, she agrees and tells Anand to forget her. Renu's mother overhears this conversation and understands that her husband is no more. She accepts her fate and tells Renu that she should marry according to her own wishes. Renu and Anand marry and at the end, Rai Bahadur accepts Renu and transfers all his property to her name.

Cast
Sadhana Shivdasani as Renu
Dev Anand as Anand
Leela Chitnis as Renu's mother
Anwar Hussain as Mohan
Sandhya Roy as Shanti
Mukri as Nandu
Keshto Mukherjee
Motilal
Nazir Hussain as Dwarkadas
Trivia
Hrishikesh Mukherjee as a director comes to maturity in this film and develops a signature style of healthy family entertainment. This film follows one of his earlier successes, Anari.

Innovative Song Picturisation: In the expression of love, while filming the song "Ek But Banaunga", Hrishikesh Mukherjee took care that Dev Anand and Sadhana maintained a distance of at least 20 feet between them. At one time when they come nearer, there is a blackboard on a stand between them. When Dev Anand turns around the blackboard to Sadhana's side, the latter puts a slate between them. In the backdrop of rains outside, with Mohammed Rafi's magic all around, someone takes away a goat from the rain-sheltered veranda and one is transported to the dream world of love. At times Dev Anand is outside in the veranda with the bamboo mesh of a window between them. Dev is worshipping Sadhana with folded hands and in the end Sadhana comes near with her hands raised in blessing.

Similarly, while picturising the song "Tera Mera Pyaar Amar", Hrishikesh Mukherjee demonstrates the love between Dev Anand and Sadhana by putting them in different places as the song unfolds. In the early part of his career, Hrishikesh Mukherjee was a cinematographer and all through the film, there is brilliant camera work.

Highlights: There is a scene in which Nazir Hussain praises the workmanship of an artifact to Dev Anand when the latter is disturbed. The same scene would be repeated by Hrishikesh Mukherjee in the film Namak Haram (1973), between Om Shivpuri and Amitabh Bachchan.

In this film, in a lone scene, Motilal, the character actor gives a brilliant performance by advising Dev Anand to let things go, rather than to control them. He asks Dev Anand in the club to hold sand in his palm and tells him: "If you would try to hold on to the sands, these would escape through your fingers. But if you keep your palm open, they would stay undisturbed."

The film is refreshing with brilliant acting by all the cast and is very competently directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

This film's story is partly inspired by The Definite Object, a 1917 romance novel by the British writer Jeffery Farnol.

Soundtrack
# Title Singer(s)
1 "Kal Ki Daulat Aaj Ki Khushian" Mohammed Rafi
2 "Lakh Chhupao Chhup Na Sakega" Lata Mangeshkar
3 "Gori Zara Hans De Tu Hans De" Mohammed Rafi
4 "Tujhe Jeevan Ki Dor Se" Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
5 "Tera Mera Pyaar Amar" Lata Mangeshkar
6 "Chheda Mera Dil Ne Tarana" Mohammed Rafi
7 "Ek But Banaoonga" Mohammed Rafi

Anpadh (Hindi: अन्पढ, Urdu: اَنپڑھ, translation: illiterate) is a 1962 Hindi film. The film stars Dharmendra, Mala Sinha, Shashi Kala and Balraj Sahni. The music is by Madan Mohan and the lyrics by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. The film focuses on the importance of education for girls. This movie also has hit songs such as the evergreen song "Aap Ki Nazron Nay Samjha", sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Plot
The story revolves around the lives of brother and sister Shambhunath and Lajwanti. Shambhunath considers the accumulation of wealth to be more important than education. He condones his sister's inattention at school and consequently she grows up "anpadh" (illiterate). When she finds herself married to a bibliophile, her problems begin. Unable to read the poetry her husband loves and being a rotten cook too, she becomes despised by her husband and her in-laws. Circumstances conspire to leave her homeless, widowed and pregnant. Narrowly escaping from the attentions of a panderer, she falls amongst friends and, with the birth of her daughter, she starts on the long road to redemption. An entertaining plea for education in general and for the education of girls in particular.

Cast
Mala Sinha...Lajwanti / Lajo
Balraj Sahni...Choudhary Shambhunath
Dharmendra...Deepak M. Nath
Shashikala...Basanti
Bindu...Kiran
Shaminder...Advocate Suraj
Nazir Hussain...Thakur Mahendra Nath
Dhumal...Kalu
Amarnath...Kishore
Mohan Choti...Young Kalu
Ram Mohan...Jeevan
Bela Bose
Mumtaz Begum...Mrs. Mahendranath
Aruna Irani...Young Lajwanti (as Baby Aruna)
Baby Shashi...Young Basanti
Brahm Bhardwaj...Public Prosecutor
Moolchand...Dayaram
Music
The music of this movie was composed by Madan Mohan. "Aap ki nazron ne samjha" is an evergreen song from this movie.

Song Singer(s) Lyricists Music Director
"Hai Isi Me Pyar Ki Aabru" Lata Mangeshkar Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan
"Jiya Le Gayo Ji Mora Sanwariya" Lata Mangeshkar Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan
"Vo Dekho Jalaa Ghar Kisi Kaa" Lata Mangeshkar Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan
"Rang Birangi Rakhi Leke Aayi Bahana" Lata Mangeshkar Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan
"Sikandar Ne Poras Se Ki Thi Ladai" Mahendra Kapoor Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan
"Dulhan Marwad Ki Aaaee Chham Chham" Mohammad Rafi & Asha Bhosle Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan
"Aap Ki Nazron Ne Samjha" Lata Mangeshkar Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Madan Mohan

Man Mauji (lit. Capricious minded) is a 1962 Bollywood film starring Kishore Kumar and Sadhana, and directed by R. Krishnan, S. Panju (as Krishnan-Panju). Jayalalithaa played the Lord Krishna in a 3-minute dance sequence held on stage in the film and danced with Kumari Naaz, who played Radha in that dance sequence. In that film, the main lead Kishore Kumar and the artistes Sulochana Chatterjee and Sunder watch the dance performance.

Cast
Kishore Kumar...Raja / Raja Lal Bahadur
Sadhana...Rani
Pran...Jagga
Durga Khote...Dr. Mohan's mom
Leela Chitnis...Bhagwanti
Sulochana Chatterjee...Bhola Ram's wife (as Sulochana Chatterjee)
Achala Sachdev...Kamlabai
Anwar Hussain...Advocate
Ashim Kumar...Dr. Mohan
Sunder...Schoolmaster
Kumari Naaz..Laxmi
Bharati Roy...Sarangi (as Bharathi Roy)
J.Jayalalitha...Lord Krishna
Devika...(as Baby Devika)
Baby Farida...Advocate's Daughter
Soundtrack
All the songs were composed by Madan Mohan and lyrics were penned by Rajinder Krishan. The song Zaroorat Hai Zaroorat Hai, Ek Shrimati ki was a super-hit number and is still sung with comic connotation.

# Title Singer(s)
1 "Mai Toh Tum Sang Nain Milake" Lata Mangeshkar
2 "Chanda Ja, Chanda Ja Re Ja" Lata Mangeshkar
3 "Zaroorat Hai Zaroorat Hai" Kishore Kumar
4 "Ek Thaa Abdul Rahamaan" Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
5 "Murge Ne Jhooth Bola" (Kamal Barot) Kamal Barot
6 "Aaya Hai Kahan Se Pee Ke" Lata Mangeshkar
7 "Buraa Lagataa Hai" Kishore Kumar
8 "Murge Ne Jhooth Bola" (Asha Bhosle) Asha Bhosle