Zindagi Zindagi

Zindagi Zindagi (English: Life, Life) is a 1972 Bollywood romance film directed by Tapan Sinha. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Deb Mukherjee, Waheeda Rehman, Farida Jalal and Ashok Kumar. The film revolves around life in a village hospital and has casteism as an issue at its core. It had excellent music by S. D. Burman, which fetched him a National Award for Best Music. It is a remake of Tapan Sinha's 1959 Bengali hit Khoniker Atithi.

Zindagi Zindagi
Directed byTapan Sinha
Produced byNariman Irani
StarringSunil Dutt, Deb Mukherjee, Waheeda Rehman, Farida Jalal and Ashok Kumar
Release date
1972
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Cast

  • Jalal Agha as Ratan( ex Soldier)
  • Ramesh Deo as Shiv Prasad(Ramprasad's son)
  • Sunil Dutt as Dr. Sunil
  • Chaaya Devi as Dr. Sunils Mother
  • Anwar Hussain as Dayaram(Patient)
  • Iftekhar as Ismail ((Patient)
  • Farida Jalal as Shyama(hospital worker)
  • Ashok Kumar as Ramprasad(Hospital benefactor/Patient/Politician)
  • Deb Mukherjee as Heera(Patient/ singer)
  • Mrinal Mukherjee as Kishore (Compounder)
  • Nasir Khan as Dr. Mukherjee(Principal)
  • Sameer Roy as Loknath(Social Activist)
  • Ruby Meyers as Senior Matron
  • Mukri as Ramu (Dr. Sunil's servant)
  • Waheeda Rehman as Meeta Sharma
  • Gajanan Jagirdar as Mr. Sharma(Meeta"s Uncle)
  • Shyama as Meeta's chachi (aunt)
  • Chand Usmani as Leela
  • Master Tito as Babu(Meeta"s Son)
  • Mukri as Ramu (Sunils servant)
  • Narbada Shankar as Brahmin/Pandit
  • Jankidas as Loknaths Assistant

Music

  1. "Zindagi Ai Zindagi" - Sachin Dev Burman
  2. "Khus Raho Sathiyo Khus Raho Sathiyo" - Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
  3. "Mera Sab Kuch Mere Geet Re" - Manna Dey
  4. "Teri Jat Kya Hai, Meri Jat Kya Hai" - Kishore Kumar
  5. "Tune Hame Kya Diya Ri Jindagi" - Kishore Kumar
  6. "Kon Sacha Hai Kon Jhutha Hai" - Manna Dey
  7. "Piya Tune Kya Kiya Re" - Sachin Dev Burman

Box office

The film was a huge critical and commercial failure.

  • Zindagi Zindagi on IMDb
  • This movie revolves around a village hospital that was built by a generous hearted man, Choudhury Ramprasad (Ashok Kumar) who is also a patient in the hospital. The other patients include Isamil (Iftekhar), Dayaram (Anwar Hussain), Ratan (Jalal Agha), and the doctor is Dr. Sunil (Sunil Dutt). Amongst the patient is a singer (Deb Mukherji), who loves Shyama (Farida Jalal) a worker in the hospital. When Meeta Sharma (Waheeda Rehman) comes to the hospital to admit her son, she meets Sunil who she loved during college days but her Uncle (Gajanan Jagirdar )and Aunt (Shyama) reject their marriage due to casteism and gets Meeta married to Brahmin Engineer who dies in a railway accident leaving Meeta with a five year old child Babu( Master Tito) who becomes paralytic due to a fall from a staircase.In the background of the hospital atmosphere is an election in the village, which is proceeding smoothly, but causing a disturbance is Ramprasad's son Shiv Prasad (Ramesh Deo). Ramprasad wins the election but on his death bed. Sunil gets Babu successfully operated but is unable to walk due to no confidence. Ratan ( Deb Mukherjee) a TB patient recovers and leaves the hospital with Shyama (Farida Jalal) a hospital worker to get married. Shiv Prasad instigates everyone about an affair between Sunil and Meeta which is solved after a quarrel. Dr Sunil gets the confidence of Babu with the help of other children, who coax him to run around playfully, finally Babu starts walking and Meeta relents to an urging Dr Sunil to join him in the hospital services, so that both can raise Babu to be Doctor.


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