1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Soundtrack

4. Reception

5. Awards

6. References

7. External links

This was Shashi Kapoor's first film as an adult actor playing the pivotal role of a Hindu fundamentalist.^[5][6] Noted actor Rajendra Kumar made a special appearance for a song as did Shashikala.^[3] At the 9th National Film Awards it was awarded the Best Feature Film in Hindi.^[6]

Plot

The film opens in 1925, during the British rule in India and at the height of the Indian independence movement it is the tale of two Delhi families, that of Nawab Badruddin and Gulshan Rai. The two families are so close that they virtually share the same house. The Nawab's daughter, Husn Bano, has an affair with a young man named Javed and gets pregnant. When the Nawab attempts to arrange her marriage with Javed, he finds that Javed has disappeared. Amrit Rai and his wife Savitri assist Husn with the birth of a baby boy, Dilip, and even adopt him and give him their family name. Young Dilip is the apple of the Badruddin and the Rai households. Husn then gets married to another young man, Javed and moves to another location. In the meantime, while participating in a protest to force the British to leave India, the Nawab is killed. Years later, Husn Bano and Javed return to a warm welcome by the Rai family. Then she meets Dilip - not the Dilip she had left behind - this Dilip is fascist, a Jihadi-detractor, who has joined forces with other extremists, in order to force sympathetic Muslims to leave India and even go to the extent of burning buildings and being violent. How can Husn and Dilip adapt to each other with so much hate and distrust between them?

Cast

• Mala Sinha as Husn Bano
• Shashi Kapoor as Dilip Rai
• Rehman as Javed
• Manmohan Krishna as Dr. Amrit Rai
• Indrani Mukherjee as Meena
• Tabassum as Rekha Rai
• Deven Verma as Sudesh Rai
• Nirupa Roy as Mrs. Savitri Amrit Rai
• Leela Chitnis as Meena's mom
• Ashok Kumar asa Nawab Badruddin (Husn Bano's Father)
• Rajendra Kumar (special appearance)
• Girgie Hayeem as Baby

Soundtrack

The film's music was composed by N. Dutta with lyrics written by Sahir Ludhianvi. The film also features a patriotic song "Sare Jahan Se Accha", written by poet Muhammad Iqbal, in the opening title sequence, in the voices of Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle.^[7]

Reception

The raw reconstruction of partition riots and sloganeering led to riot-like situations at theatres during screening the film,^[8] and the film flopped at the box office.^[9] After Dharmputra{{'}}s debacle, few directors ventured into the communal theme in Hindi cinema that took it so bluntly, the next film which dealt with the issue was Garm Hava, by M.S. Sathyu, made in 1973.^[10] The film's director Yash Chopra never made a political film again, and stuck to love stories till many decades later, when he touched the theme of religious harmony again with Veer Zaara (2004).^[8][11]

Awards

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• 1961: President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Hindi^[6]

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• 1963: Best Dialogue: Akhtar ul Iman^[12]

References

• {{cite book |title=Yash Chopra: fifty years in Indian cinema|author=Rachel Dwyer|publisher=Lotus Collection|year=2002 |isbn=8174362347 |page= |url= |ref= }}

External links

• {{IMDb title|id=0158585}}

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