Anuraag (1972 film)
| Anuraag | |
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| Directed by | Shakti Samanta |
| Produced by | Shakti Samanta |
| Written by | Vrajendra Gaur |
| Screenplay by |
Madhusudhan Kalelkar Binoy Chatterjee |
| Story by | Shakti Samanta |
| Starring |
Vinod Mehra Nutan Ashok Kumar Moushmi Chatterjee |
| Music by | S. D. Burman |
| Cinematography | Aloke Das Gupta |
| Edited by | Bijoy Choudhury |
Production company |
Shakti Films |
| Distributed by | United Producers |
Release date | December 1972 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Anuraag is a 1972 Hindi film, directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Moushumi Chatterjee in her Hindi film debut and Vinod Mehra in lead roles. The Shakti Samanta fixture Rajesh Khanna, having earlier made Aradhana (1969) and Kati Patang with Samanta, makes a special appearance. The music is by S. D. Burman. Initially, Shakti Samanta was thinking whether to make this film or not as he was not sure if the distributors would buy a film with such a story line and had shared the idea with Rajesh Khanna, who encouraged Samanta and volunteered to make an extended appearance for the film, and also distributed the film under the banner "Shakti-Raj" (indicating Shakti Samanta and Rajesh Khanna).[1]
The film became a semi-hit, while doing extremely well in big cities.,[2] and won the Filmfare Best Movie Award for the year. It was later remade into the Telugu film "Anuraagaalu" (1975) with Sridevi in her first leading role. A. Bhimsingh also remade it in Malayalam as Raagam (1975). It was also remade in Tamil as Neela Malargal (1979), and in Kannada as Chiranjeevi, with Manjula and Srinath.
Plot
A blind sculptor, Shivani (Moushumi Chatterjee) stays in an ashram and makes friends with a small boy (Satyajit), who is suffering from cancer. She falls in love with Rajesh (Vinod Mehra). Rajesh asks his parents to permit him to marry her, to which his mother agrees, but his father refuses under her present condition. Then, an eye specialist reveals that an eye replacement would cure her.
Later, as a dying wish, the young boy donates his eyes to her, thus granting her eyesight for the first time in her life.[3]
Cast
- Ashok Kumar - Mr. Shiv Shankar Rai/Rai Saheb
- Master Satyajeet - Chandan Rai, grandson of Rai Saheb
- Nutan - Anu Rai (Rai Saheb's daughter-in-law)
- Vinod Mehra - Rajesh
- Moushmi Chatterjee - Shivani
- Nasir Hussain - Anu's Father
- Murad - Eye Specialist
- David
- Asit Sen - D'Souza
- Madan Puri - Amirchand, Rajesh's father
- Anita Guha - Rajesh's Mother
- Abhi Bhattacharya - Hari
- Satyendra Kapoor - Dr. Sunil
- Rajesh Khanna - Gangaram, shopkeeper (Guest appearance)
Music
| Anuraag | ||||
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| Studio album by S.D. Burman | ||||
| Released |
1972 (India) | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
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| Producer | Shakti Samanta | |||
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The soundtrack of the film contains 5 songs. The music is composed by S.D. Burman, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi [4]
| Track # | Song | Singer(s) | Duration | Notes |
| 1 | "Neend Churayi Chain Churaye" | Lata Mangeshkar | 4:14 | |
| 2 | "Ram Karay Babua" | Kishore Kumar | 4:19 | |
| 3 | "Sun Ri Pawan Pawan Purbaiya" | Lata Mangeshkar | 3:33 | |
| 4 | "Tere Nainon Ke Main Deep Jalaoonga" | Mohd. Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar | 3:36 | |
| 5 | "Mera Raja Beta Boojhe Ek Paheli" | Lata Mangeshkar | 3:48 | It is repeated twice. |
| 6 | "Mera Raja Beta Boojhe Ek Paheli" (Sad) | Lata Mangeshkar | 2:13 | |
| 7 | Title Music |
Awards and nominations
- Filmfare Best Movie Award (1973)
- Filmfare Special Award for Guest Artist - Rajesh Khanna
- Filmfare Nomination for Best Actress-Moushuhmi Chatterjee
- Filmfare Nomination for Best Supporting Actress-Nutan
- Filmfare Nomination for Best Story-Shakti Samanta[5]