Bees Saal Baad (1962)

Bees Saal Baad is a 1962 Bollywood psychological drama-thriller film. The movie was produced by Hemant Kumar, who also gave the music and sings some of the movie's memorable songs, the film is directed by Biren Nag in a directorial debut. The film stars Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen.
The film is a very loose adaptation of the Bengali hit thriller Jighansa (1951), which was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. The film topped the box office chart in 1962, becoming a "super hit." 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 "Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil". For the same song Shakeel Badayuni was also nominated for the Best Lyricist.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Soundtrack
• 4 Awards and nominations
• 5 External links

 

Plot

After a lusty Thakur in the village of Chandanghat rapes a young girl, she kills herself. Thereafter, the Thakur is killed by what the local people call the girl's vengeful spirit. Then the Thakur's son is also reportedly killed by the same spirit. Twenty years after the Thakur's death, his grandson Kumar comes to the village and is warned by the locals that the spirit will kill him as well, but he does not believe them. He hears the singing voice of the supposed spirit the first night from the swamp. The next day as he wakes up, he finds out about Radha, a carefree girl, who is the niece of an old man, Ramlal.

The singing continues the second night but Kumar is unable to find the identity of the girl singing the song. He notices that there is a source of light in his house on the terrace. The next day, Kumar finds that his coat is lost. The news reaches Radha that Kumar has been killed. Radha does not believe this and runs into the forest, where Kumar comes in front of her. He tells it was not he that was killed, but a random man wearing his suit. He was killed in the swamp under the same tree where his father and grandfather were killed.

Later that night Kumar sees Laxman, his servant arguing with a girl. Laxman explains that the one who was under the tree was his sister's husband. He showed him light everyday from the terrace, and Laxman has stolen the coat and given to him. Radha advises him to leave, since a person wearing his coat was killed by the spirit. Kumar doesn't.

Ramlal forbids Radha to meet Kumar, as people say she would be killed too. Kumar meanwhile tries to figure out who is doing all this. Seeing Radha so sad, Ramlal tells her to call Kumar near the swamp where they will talk. Kumar goes to the swamp, and the spirit tries to kill him, but he escapes. Radha finds out that the one who was pretending to be the spirit of the girl was none other than her uncle Ramlal. It was Ramlal's daughter who had been raped by Thakur, so he killed Thakur, his son and was trying to kill his grandson now. Police arrives and persuades Ramlal to surrender himself. Kumar and Radha meet each other and have a happy ending.

Cast

• Biswajeet as Kumar Vijay Singh
• Waheeda Rehman as Radha
• Manmohan Krishna as Ramlal / Radheshyam
• Madan Puri as Dr. Pandey
• Asit Sen as Gopichand Jasoos
• Sajjan as Detective Mohan Tripathi
• Lata Sinha
• Dev Kishan as Laxman

Soundtrack

#	Title	Singer(s)	Lyricist	Length
1	Kahin Deep Jale Kahin	Lata Mangeshkar	Shakeel Badayuni	5:11
2	Zara Nazaron Se Kah Do Ji	Hemant Kumar	Shakeel Badayuni	3:12
3	Sapne Suhane	Lata Mangeshkar	Shakeel Badayuni	3:53
4	Bekarar Karke Hume	Hemant Kumar	Shakeel Badayuni	3:07
5	Yeh Mohabbat Mein	Lata Mangeshkar	Shakeel Badayuni	3:48

Awards and nominations

Filmfare Awards

Wins

• Best Lyricist - Shakeel Badayuni for the song "Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil"
• Best Female Playback Singer - Lata Mangeshkar for the song "Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil"
• Best Editing - Keshav Naidu
• Best Sound Design - S. Y. Pathak

Nominations

• Best Film
• Best Director - Biren Nag
• Best Music Director - Hemant Kumar

 
 
 

External links

Asli-Naqli (1962)

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

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Trivia
• 4 Soundtrack
• 5 External links

Plot

Anand (Dev Anand) is a spoiled grandson of a rich businessman Rai Bahadur (played by Nazir Hussain). His grandfather wants him to marry Rekha (Sandhya Roy), only daughter and heiress of a rich man despite 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 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 incompetency. 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 with 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 for which Anand disagrees. Rai Bahadur blackmails Renu that he would tell her mother about his father's death if she wouldn't marry 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 transfer 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 so 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 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 sands 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)	Lyricist	Length
1	Kal Ki Daulat Aaj Ki	Mohammed Rafi	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:21
2	Tera Mera Pyar Amar	Lata Mangeshkar	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:09
3	Ek But Banaoonga	Mohammed Rafi	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:25
4	Chheda Mera Dil Ne Tarana	Mohammed Rafi	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:12
5	Tujhe Jeevan Ki Dor Se	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:19
6	Gori Zara Hans De Tu Hans De	Mohammed Rafi	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:14
7	Lakh Chhupao Chhup Na Sakega	Lata Mangeshkar	Hasrat Jaipuri	3:19

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