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Musafir

Musafir

Original name: Musafir
English name: Musafir
Year: 1957
Run time: 149 mins
Language: Hindi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Black & white
Country: India
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Producer: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Cast: Dilip Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Niroopa Roy, Usha Kiran, Baby Naaz, Daisy Irani, Shekhar, Suchitra Sen, Durga Khote, David, Mohan Choti
Screenplay: Hrishikesh Mukherjee & Ritwik Ghatak
Cinematographer: Kamal Bose
Editor: Das Dhaimade
Sound Designer: Essa M. Suratwala
Music Composer: Salil Chowdhury
Costume Designer: Ibrahim Mamoo
Production Designer: Sudhendu Roy
Production Company: Film Group
World Sales: Super Cassettes Industries Limited
World Sales Email: rpsharma@tseries.net

Festivals:

  • National film Award

Director’s Biography:

By no means is he any glamorous director, yet Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one of the most popular and beloved filmmakers in Indian cinema. His magic lay not in the glamor or largeness so often associated with cinema, but in its simplicity and warmth. He began his career in Bombay, 1951, as an editor and assistant director to Bimal Roy, another great director himself. His first directorial venture, Musafir (1957), centering on an old house where three unrelated stories dealing with birth, marriage and death occur in a series, was a disaster. But director Raj Kapoor was impressed and strongly recommended Hrishida as director for Anari (1959). Starring Kapoor himself and Nutan, the film was a critical and commercial success.His next film, Anuradha (1960), about an idealistic doctor who neglects his wife to focus on his work, got him the President's Medal Award. But from then on throughout the 1960s decade, none of Hrishida films were particularly distinguishable, barring Asli-Naqli (1962), a Muslim melodrama; Anupama (1966), which was based on a true incident; Aashirwad (1968), a family drama; and Satyakam (1969), about an idealist seeing his dreams crumble after Indian independence.

Synopsis:

: For any young married couple, moving into their new house is a very special feeling. The feeling gets more special if the young couple has eloped and married. Something similar happened with Shakuntala (SuchitraSen) and her husband. The landlord (David) helps the couple move to the rented house. The young couple moves to this house, which, incidentally is the main protagonist of the film. While Shakuntala makes the house into a beautiful home, her husband gets busy with work. She meets the neighboring tea vendor (Mohan Choti) and meets the next door "auntie", whose favourite pastime is to gossip about developments in others' homes. The couple hears the sound of a violin in the night and ask the tea-stall owner about it in the morning. He says that it is being played by a mad-man, PaglaBabu. Since the couple had eloped, Shakuntala wanted that her parents-in-law accept her as their daughter-in-law. This is what happens, and her in-laws somehow find the young couple and they are more than happy to meet Shakuntala. Finally, Shakuntala and her husband go with them and vacate the house. In between, Shakuntala plants some seeds in the garden.