film(ek saal)(1957)

Ek SaalDevendra GoelAshok KumarMadhubalaJohnny WalkerKuldip KaurMinu MumtazMadan PuriMehmoodNazir KashmiriPratima DeviSocial CrimeMusicRavi Lyrics: Prem Dhawan
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Sab Kuch Luta Ke Hosh Mein Aaye-Lata Mangeshker-Ek Saal.

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na puchho pyar ki hamne jo haqeqat dekhi
wafa ke naam pe bikte hue ulfat dekhi
kisi ne lut liya aur hame khabar na hui
khuli jo aankh to barbaad mohabbat dekhi

sab kuchh luta ke hosh me aaye to kya kiya
sab kuchh luta ke hosh me aaye to kya kiya
din ne agar charag jalaye to kya kiya
sab kuchh luta ke hosh me aaye to kya kiya

main wo kali hu jo na baharo me khil saki
main wo kali hu jo na baharo me khil saki
wo dil hu jisko pyar ki manzil na mil saki
manzil na mil saki
pathar pe hamne phul chadhaye to kya kiya
din ne agar charag jalaye to kya kiya
sab kuchh luta ke hosh me aaye to kya kiya

jo mil na saka pyar gam ki sham to mile
jo mil na saka pyar gam ki sham to mile
ek bewafaa se pyar ka anjaam to mile
ae maut jald aa
ae maut jald aa zara aaram to mile
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    Ek Saal

    CBFC: U
     1957 ‧ Bollywood/Drama ‧ 2h 14m
    A rich woman lives in Mumbai with her father, a retired colonel. She meets a flirt at her birthday party and several times thereafter, only to find out that he is a manager appointed by her father.





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Rating: 6.8/10 - ‎20 votes
Directed by Devendra Goel. With Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Johnny Walker, Kuldip Kaur. The father of a dying woman pays a con artist to make his daughter's ...

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Complete credited cast:
Ashok Kumar ...
Suresh Kumar
Madhubala ...
Usha Sinha
Johnny Walker ...
J.B. Pinto
Kuldip Kaur ...
Rajani
Minoo Mumtaz ...
Mary
Sheela Vaz ...
Sheela
Mehmood ...
Doctor
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Nazir Kashmiri

S.K. Prem

Madan Puri ...
Dr. M.M. Puri
Pratima Devi ...
Usha's maternal grandmother
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Bombay-based Usha Sinha lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, a retired Colonel. During her birthday celebration at her grandmother's in Lucknow, she encounters a flirt, but avoids him, only to run into him again in a taxi-cab, and then in her very own house in Bombay. She finds out that his name is Suresh, who has been hired by her dad as a Manager. Eventually both she and Suresh fall in love with each other. Suresh appears to care a lot about Usha and even takes her to a doctor for a medical check-up to ensure her well-being, to which she agrees, without knowing that she has brain tumor and is not expected to live more than one year. What the Sinhas do not know is that Suresh does not love Usha at all, for his true love is a Lucknow-based woman named Rajani, and he is merely here to win their trust, so that he can be successful in robbing them of all their cash and valuables. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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      Sab Kuchh Luta Ke Hosh Me Aaye To Kya Kiya 
      4.55 - 33 votes
      Talat MahmoodRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar
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      Sab Kuchh Luta Ke Hosh Me Aaye To Kya Kiya (By Lata) 
      4.18 - 22 votes
      Lata MangeshkarRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar,Madhubala
      Gaafil Tujhe Ghadiyaal Ye (Kiske Liye Rukaa Hai) 
      4.67 - 6 votes
      Mohammed RafiRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Madhubala, Ashok Kumar
      Dil To Kisi Ko Doge, Kisi Ke Aakhir Hoge 
      4.25 - 4 votes
      Mohammed RafiRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Johnny Walker
      Ulajh Gaye Do Nainaa Dekho 
      4.25 - 4 votes
      Lata Mangeshkar,Hemant KumarRaviRaviEk Saal (1957)Madhubala, Ashok Kumar
      Kisi Ne Aaj Mohabbat Ko Aajmaya Hai (Chale Bhi Aao) 
      4.00 - 4 votes
      Lata MangeshkarRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar,Madhubala
      Tu Jiye Hazaaro Saal Gori 
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      Asha BhosleRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Madhubala
      Chhum Chhum Chhali Piya Ki Gali 
      3.00 - 1 votes
      Lata MangeshkarRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar,Madhubala
      Miyan Mera Baada Be Imaan 
      3.00 - 1 votes
      Balbir, Geeta DuttRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Madhubala, Ashok Kumar, Johnny Walker, Meenu Mumtaz


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      Ek Saal (1957)
      Film cast:Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Kuldip Kaur, Minu Mumtaz, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Madan Puri
      Singer:Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mahmood
      Lyricist:Ravi, Prem Dhawan
      Music Director:Ravi
      Film Director:Devendra Goel
      Film Producer:Goel Cine Corporation
      External Links:Ek Saal at IMDB    
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    Sab Kuchh Luta Ke Hosh Me Aaye To Kya Kiya 
    4.55 - 33 votes
    Talat MahmoodRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar
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    Sab Kuchh Luta Ke Hosh Me Aaye To Kya Kiya (By Lata) 
    4.18 - 22 votes
    Lata MangeshkarRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar,Madhubala
    Gaafil Tujhe Ghadiyaal Ye (Kiske Liye Rukaa Hai) 
    4.67 - 6 votes
    Mohammed RafiRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Madhubala, Ashok Kumar
    Dil To Kisi Ko Doge, Kisi Ke Aakhir Hoge 
    4.25 - 4 votes
    Mohammed RafiRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Johnny Walker
    Ulajh Gaye Do Nainaa Dekho 
    4.25 - 4 votes
    Lata Mangeshkar,Hemant KumarRaviRaviEk Saal (1957)Madhubala, Ashok Kumar
    Kisi Ne Aaj Mohabbat Ko Aajmaya Hai (Chale Bhi Aao) 
    4.00 - 4 votes
    Lata MangeshkarRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar,Madhubala
    Tu Jiye Hazaaro Saal Gori 
    2.50 - 2 votes
    Asha BhosleRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Madhubala
    Chhum Chhum Chhali Piya Ki Gali 
    3.00 - 1 votes
    Lata MangeshkarRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Ashok Kumar,Madhubala
    Miyan Mera Baada Be Imaan 
    3.00 - 1 votes
    Balbir, Geeta DuttRaviPrem DhawanEk Saal (1957)Madhubala, Ashok Kumar, Johnny Walker, Meenu Mumtaz


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    Ek Saal (1957)
    Film cast:Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Kuldip Kaur, Minu Mumtaz, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Madan Puri
    Singer:Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mahmood
    Lyricist:Ravi, Prem Dhawan
    Music Director:Ravi
    Film Director:Devendra Goel
    Film Producer:Goel Cine Corporation
    External Links:Ek Saal at IMDB    


    Ek Saal | Dustedoff


    When I created a list of my favourite car songs, blog reader Ragni requested a list: of songs that feature women playing a piano. I riffled mentally through the film .
    Did the producer and director Devendra Goel specialise in film names that incorporated numbers? Have a look at this (admittedly select) filmography: Ek Saal, Ek Phool Do Maali, Ek Mahal ho Sapnon ka, Do Musafir, Dus Lakh…  Was he, perhaps, doing a countdown to what he hoped would be some blockbuster magnum opus that would put Mughal-e-Azam or Mother India firmly and permanently in the shade?
    I don’t know, but this I can say: of all the Devendra Goel films I’ve seen (six), this is by far the best. It’s coherent, interesting, romantic – and it stars a wonderful lead couple: Ashok Kumar and Madhubala.
    We don’t see the lead pair till a few minutes into the film. Instead, it begins with a conversation in a doctor’s room in Bombay. The greying and grim-faced doctor (unusually cast, Mehmood in a cameo) has to break the bad news to the retired Colonel Sinha (S K Prem?): his beloved daughter Usha has a brain tumour. It’s a vicious growth, too: inoperable and incurable. Usha cannot hope to live more than a year at the most.
    Colonel Sinha is devastated – he’s a widower, and Usha is his life. She isn’t right now in Bombay – she’s gone to her nanihaal (her maternal grandmother’s home) in Lucknow, to celebrate her birthday. Her father cannot bring himself to tell Usha the bad news, but decides right then that he will do anything he can to ensure that Usha is supremely happy in the 12 months she has to live.
    The scene now shifts to Lucknow and we finally get to see Usha (Madhubala), who’s at a party being hosted by her grandmother (Pratima Devi, in a guest appearance). A group of dancers, led by a bright-eyed and smiling Sheila Vaz, sing the ironic Tu jiye hazaaron saal gori” (“May you live thousands of years, beauty”), and Usha simpers her way through the verses, as the singer wishes a loving husband, children and whatnot on the birthday girl.
    … and someone takes advantage of the fact that everybody’s attention is on the dancers.
    This is the suave gentleman thief, Suresh (Ashok Kumar), who uses his education, charm and air of self-sufficiency to dupe people so that he can lay his hands on their wealth. Right now, at Usha’s birthday party, he uses his nimble fingers to pluck Usha’s granny’s necklace – worth Rs 10,000 – from around her neck.
    A lot happens within the next few minutes: granny raises a hue and cry, a private detective named J B Pinto (Johnny Walker – more on this character later) steps forward, offering to search out the culprit, and Suresh manages to surreptitiously slide the necklace into a lady’s handbag which he sees lying open beside a telephone. There is some dilly-dallying while JB Pinto tries to initiate a body search. Usha’s granny shoots down the idea (her guests being subjected to such suspicion? No!), and announces that she’d rather let her necklace go missing than antagonise her friends.
    Soon after, Suresh discovers that the bag in question is Usha’s; he follows her through the corridor as she goes off with it, engages her in conversation, and manages to slip the necklace out, which he returns to Usha’s granny. Granny is pleased, but Usha thinks this man is a flirt whom she’d rather not get to know better.
    But she does – on the way to the railway station the next day, when both Usha and Suresh are going to Bombay, and she rushes into the taxi he’s in. She ends up going willy-nilly with him to the station, but shakes him off soon after.
    Only, when she arrives home in Bombay, she soon discovers that Suresh too has turned up there, and as none other than her father’s new estate manager.
    There’s a story behind this. Suresh’s wad of recommendations and glowing tributes to his efficiency are all forged. He has his eye on Colonel Sinha’s wealth, and has come to Bombay with the express purpose of slowly (well, preferably swiftly) robbing Colonel Sahib of all his money. Also in on the plot is Suresh’s partner-in-crime, Rajni (Kuldeep Kaur, looking like – as PG Wodehouse would have said – “What she wants is a cracking good gallop every morning and no starchy foods.).
    Rajni, besides being Suresh’s accomplice and equally (if not more) unprincipled, is also in love with him. She’s been nagging Suresh to marry her, but Suresh tells her flat out that he has no time for – and no belief in – stuff like love. Give him money, give him material things, and he’s happy. Love is for the birds.
    Colonel Sinha deputes Usha to show Suresh around – to introduce him to the staff, take him around the estate, and accommodate him in their own house. All this close proximity – this being a Hindi film – soon leads to Usha falling head over heels with Suresh (why he doesn’t is hard to fathom; all that gorgeousness and this man remains unaffected?!).
    One day, a friend of Usha’s comes calling, bringing with her a garland from another friend’s engagement. (Why? Why would one give away a garland that had so much sentimental value; and why would anybody want it anyway? To recycle the flowers and sell them?)
    The friend soon discovers Usha’s love for Suresh, and Usha tries to prove to her that her love is not unrequited. She sings a song and when Suresh turns up, she lovingly slides the garland over his neck. But oh, tragedy! – only to have him fling it off. “I only came to hand over this letter that came for you,” Suresh tells her, and poor, heartbroken, rejected Usha faints prettily, just as her father – who has been standing at the door and has witnessed the entire scene – comes rushing in.
    Soon after, the colonel comes to meet Suresh on personal business. Usha’s father explains the situation – that Usha has only a year to live, and that he wants that one year to be the happiest of her life. Now Colonel Sahib thinks that Usha’s happiness, since she’s so in love with Suresh, lies in that love being reciprocated. If Suresh will pretend to love Usha in return, he (Colonel Sahib) will make it worth Suresh’s while. This, by paying Suresh Rs 10,000 a month.
    Suresh hems and haws a little and asks for some time to think over the proposition, but that ten grand is too lucrative an offer for him to resist. Soon, the game starts: Suresh convinces Usha that he loves her, and Colonel Sahib, every month, begins handing out a cheque of Rs 10,000 to Suresh. Everybody’s happy. Suresh is happy because he’s getting richer by the month. Usha is happy because she’s found – as she imagines – true love. Colonel Sahib is happy because Usha is happy.
    But far away, in Lucknow, someone is definitely unhappy. Rajni has been getting restive. Suresh’s initial letters and phone calls to her from Bombay have kept her in the know, so she’s aware of how he’s built up a web of deceit to keep Usha and the Colonel hooked. Now, though, Suresh’s communication with her has fallen off – he’s banged the phone down on her the last time they spoke – and Rajni fears that Suresh is actually in love with Usha, not just playing along.
    …so she employs the private eye, JB Pinto (who uses the suffix PDF – ‘private detective first class’) to check on Suresh and Usha. JB Pinto and his assistant (who is also the light of JB Pinto’s life), Mary (Minoo Mumtaz) are given an advance to go to Bombay and find out what the real story is.
    But what is the story? Is Suresh really just acting a part, or is he succumbing (who couldn’t, really?) to Usha’s charm and beauty? And even if Suresh does fall in love with Usha, how long can this love last? Just that one year? Or is there some way love will triumph, finally?
    Some melodrama does ensue (how could it not, with that set of circumstances?) and there’s a lukewarm comic side plot, but mostly it’s the romance between Suresh and Usha that occupies centre stage here.
    Interestingly, Ek Saal reminded me a good deal of the wonderful Charles Boyer-Olivia de Havilland film, Hold Back the Dawn. I rate that film as one of the best romances I’ve ever seen, and it’s on similar lines as Ek Saal: an unscrupulous man fakes love for a woman for selfish reasons, and much drama – also, as in Ek Saal, at a hospital bed with the heroine struggling for life – ensues. If you watch Ek Saal and like it, do look out for Hold Back the Dawn: it’s lovely.