![]() ![]() They further proceed with the wedding when Ambika brings the tilak. Raja asks how she knows all this and she replies that its her house and she’ll obviously know it all. She adds that tilak is an important factor in their tradition and tells them to get it from where its always kept. The priest starts with the rituals when Dadu interrupts saying that nobody has put tilak on Raja’s forehead. Rani meets Raja on the pandal and Raja asks how he looks. Rani trips and is about to see her parent’s photo but Meenu comes in between. Dadu is taking Rani towards the pandal when she tells her that her parents would’ve been very happy. Jeevan does not let him see her as its considered as a bad omen. He meets Jeevan on the door and asks where Rani is when she enters from the door. Raja is about to go out when Rani Maa stops her but he says that its important. Jeevan changes his direction and Rani asks where he’s taking them but he tells them not to worry. Jeevan is driving and plays an inappropriate song to which Rani objects. Raja shouts at Ambika for letting him go all alone and runs to find them. She says that Jeevan has gone to pick Rani and will be coming anytime. She then says that she was kidding and that he is always looking for Rani. He gifts her a ring and she asks him to put it on her finger but Raja stops. The pairing of Nargis and Kishore Kumar never happened.Rani trips and is about to see her parent’s photo but Meenu comes in between.Īmbika blesses Raja for his future ahead when Lovi comes to see him. She opted out of the film, leading it to being shelved for good. But then Nargis got pregnant with her first child, actor Sanjay Dutt. One of the songs, recorded on September 9, 1958, Kaisi Khoob Raat Hai, a light-hearted ditty sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi was all set to be filmed later in Kashmir. The film also made quite some headway in its filming following a major schedule in Shimla. It is said that 8 songs of the film were recorded in the voices of Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt. Ramchandra, who had photographed Nargis in Anhonee (1952), where she also played dual roles of the good sister and bad sister, and Miss India (1957), was the film’s cinematographer. The supporting cast included Johnny Walker, Pran, Ulhas, Mukri, Anwar Hussain (Nargis’ brother), Ram Mohan and Minoo Mumtaz with Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri writing the songs, which were composed by Shankar-Jaikishan. The film, written by Inder Raj Anand, had them both in double roles, in a tale of mistaken identities. ![]() Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani saw Nargis paired opposite Kishore Kumar for the first time, a most unusual pairing, what with her being known for her intense dramatic roles and he for his outrageous comic ones. Anand had already directed Nargis before in Lahore (1949), one of the first films to address the trauma of Partition of the sub-continent, and in Bewafa (1952), where Raj Kapoor played a rare negative role in a love triangle that also co-starred Ashok Kumar. The film was produced and directed by ML Anand. ![]() However, sometime in the second half of 1958, Nargis had signed on another film, Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani. She did subsequently lend her voice to Dutt’s single actor experiment, Yaadein (1964), and came back to the silver screen just once more for Satyen Bose’s Raat Aur Din (1967), even winning the National Award for Best Actress for the same, the very first actress to be honored thus. It is widely accepted that following her marriage to her Mother India co-star, Sunil Dutt, who, incidentally, played her son in Mehboob’s masterpiece, these were her last releases as she concentrated on settling down away from the world of films and raising a family. ![]() Following Mother India (1957), Nargis had 3 releases in 1958 – Ghar Sansar, Adalat and Lajwanti. ![]()
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