Gumrah (1963)

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Movie
Original title Gumrah
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1963
length 149 minutes
Rod
Director BR Chopra
script Akhtar-ul-Iman
production BR Chopra
music Ravi
cut Pran Mehra
occupation

Gumrah is the fourth highest-grossing Bollywood film from 1963 . Gumrah also serves as a template for the film Bewafaa - Untreu (2005) with Kareena Kapoor in the lead role.

action

The young Meena lives with her father at the foot of the Himalayas . One day her sister Kamla comes to visit with her two children. Only her husband Ashok could not let his work stand. Now Kamla and her father have the idea to finally marry Meena. Finally, Meena confesses to her sister that she loves the painter and musician Rajendra. Kamla is happy and wants to get everything in the way when a great misfortune occurs: Kamla falls from the rocks and dies.

So that Kamla's children should not grow up without a mother, Meena is asked by her father to take over this mother role and become Ashok's wife. Since Meena loves the children more than anything, she agrees with a heavy heart.

From now on she lives with her husband Ashok in Bombay and fulfills all the tasks of a housewife - until she meets Rajendra again and her love for him flares up again. She secretly starts an affair. But suddenly a woman named Leela appears who claims to be Rajendra's wife and blackmails Meena. To prevent the affair from being exposed, she gives Leela money. However, she always wants more, so that Meena has difficulty finding the money and suffers psychologically.

In the end it turns out that Leela is Ashok's secretary and was hired by him. Meena deeply regrets her offense and ends the affair herself so as not to break up her family.

music

Song title Singer
Aa Bhi Jaa Mahendra Kapoor
Aaja Aaja Re Asha Bhosle , Mahendra Kapoor
Aap Aayen Mahendra Kapoor
Chalo Ek Baar Mahendra Kapoor
Ek Pardesi Asha Bhosle
Ek Thi Ladki Asha Bhosle
Tujhko Mera Pyar Pukare Asha Bhosle , Mahendra Kapoor

Awards

Filmfare Award 1964

Nominations

criticism

"Despite the ending," Gumrah "is still one of the films from the early 60s that offered the actresses a broader platform than before, such as Bandini with the wonderful Nutan . BR Chopra's drama doesn't quite come close to that Despite all the progressive ideas, it sometimes seems a little powerless - but it is all about Bollywood cinema at a high level with impressive performances in front of and behind the camera. " (from molodezhnaja.ch)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=169&catName=MTk2Mw== ( Memento from June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://molodezhnaja.ch/gumrah.htm

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