Do Phool

Do Phool
Directed by S. Ramanathan
Written by K. Balachander
Starring Ashok Kumar
Vinod Mehra
Mehmood
Release date
 1973
Country India
Language Hindi

Do Phool ("Two Flowers") is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by S. Ramanathan. The film stars Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra and Mehmood. The film was a remake of the Tamil film Anubavi Raja Anubavi, which was also later remade in Kannada as Kittu Puttu. The story line of 1993 Hindi movie Aankhen was similar to this movie.

The dual role played by Nagesh in Tamil was reprised by Mehmood in Hindi and by Dwarakish in Kannada. Earlier, the triple role played by Nagesh in Panakkara Kudumbam was reprised by Mehmood in the Hindi version Humjoli and by Dwarakish in the Kannada version Bhale Huduga.

Plot

Diwan Bahadur Atal Rai lives a wealthy lifestyle in his mansion "Gulistan" in Malabar Hills, Bombay, along with his wife, Malti, and two sons, Pavitra and Charitra. Pavitra was adopted while Charitra is his biological son. They are irresponsible, spoiled, Matric-failed, and refuse to do any work. They humiliate their father when he decides to get Charitra married to Shaila, the daughter of Advocate Vardhraj, and he asks them to leave. Shortly thereafter, Charitra returns home claiming that he had an altercation with his Pavitra, and knifed him to death. Subsequently, Police Inspector Madhusudan Apte gets enough evidence to arrest Charitra. He is let go with a warning after admitting that this was a prank. Then Charitra goes on the run after the Mahabaleshwar Police find a dead body and identify it as that of Pavitra. A frantic Atal and Malti attempt to make sense of this homicide, and are eventually relieved when Pavitra is brought home by Shaila and her friend, Poonam Apte. Hilarious chaos will soon prevail when Pavitra claims that his real name is Mani and he lives in Cochin with his widowed mother. Atal is convinced that Pavitra is playing another prank, but a number of questions remained unanswered: if Pavitra is alive - what of the dead body? and exactly when and why did Pavitra decide to change his name to Mani? [1]

Cast

Soundtrack

The music for all the songs[2] were composed by Rahul Dev Burman and lyrics were penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

# Title Singer(s) Duration
1 "Maaf Karo, Maa Maaf Karo" version 1 Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mehmood 03:48
2 "Maaf Karo, Maa Maaf Karo" version 2 Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mehmood 04:06
3 "Muthukodi Kawadi Hada" Mehmood, Asha Bhosle 04:15
4 "Lailo Shabab Aayi Jhum Jhum Ke" Lata Mangeshkar, Mehmood 03:36

References

  1. ↑ "Do Phool (1974)". Retrieved 21 August 2016 – via m.imdb.com.
  2. ↑ "Do Phool". 21 March 1974. Retrieved 21 August 2016 – via IMDb.


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