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Bahar ({{lang-hi|बहार}}; {{lang-en|The spring season or happiness}}) is a 1951 Hindi Black-and-white social guidance film written and directed by M. V. Raman. It was a remake of the 1949 South Indian blockbuster film Vazhkai. The film starred Vyjayanthimala in her Bollywood debut, Karan Dewan and Pandari Bai in the lead with Pran, Om Prakash, Leela Mishra, Sunder, Tabassum, Indira Acharya and Chaman Puri, forming an ensemble cast. The film was produced by A. V. Meiyappan with his production company, AVM. The music was composed by S. D. Burman with lyrics provided by Rajendra Krishan, while the editing was done by K. Shankarand and M. V. Raman and the camera was handled by T. Muthuswamy. The story revolves around Lata, Vasant and Malti.

Plot

The story revolves around Lata, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with her parents and they would like her to get married to the wealthy Shekhar; she initially approves of it. Shortly thereafter, she meets with Vasant Kumar and both fall in love with each other and get married. Heartbroken and angry, Shekhar starts to investigate Vasant's background. He finds out that Vasant's real name is Ashok, an editor for a magazine. What happens in Ashok's or Vasant Kumar's life?

Cast

Crew

Production

After his film Vazhkai was a runaway success at the box office where it completed 25 weeks of its theatrical run, A. V. Meiyappan planned to remake the film in Hindi with his company AVM Productions.^[3] For the lead female role, actress Vyjayanthimala was roped in, Vyjayanthimala, who has done the same role previously in the Tamil and Telugu versions was about to make her Bollywood debut through this film.^[4] She had also learned Hindi at the Hindi Prachar Sabha to dub her own voice for her character.^[5] For second female lead, popular South Indian actress Pandari Bai was approached, though earlier she was considered to enact the same role in the Tamil version, only to be rejected by A. V. Meiyappan because of her Kannada-tinged Tamil accent, who replaced her with actress M. S. Draupadi in that role.^[6] Pandari Bai was credited as Padmini in this film, as her name is too old fashioned for Bollywood.^[6]^[7]

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was composed by S. D. Burman, while the lyrics were penned by Rajendra Krishan.^[8] R.Sudarsanam of south was the associate music director. Almost all the songs were chartbusters and the album proved to be successful for music director S. D. Burman, who previously tasted success through Shabnam. Bahar is also one of the rare soundtracks where Burman uses Shamshad Begum as his main singer. Her voice for the song "Saiyan Dil Mein Aana Re" became a hit.^[9] The album also features Kishore Kumar's early hit song "Qasoor Aapka", and he later became one of the leading male playback singers in Bollywood.^[10]^[11] "Saiyan Dil Mein Aana Re" was later remixed by Harry Anand for the album UMI 10 Vol 4.^[12]

Box office

At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed around {{INR}}12,500,000 with a net of {{INR}}{{formatnum:7000000}}, while it became the sixth highest-grossing film of 1951 with a verdict of "hit" at the box office.^[2]

References

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