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    Griha Pravesh
    1979 film
    The story revolves around Amar and Mansi, who meet through their respective families and end up getting married, only to separate later on.
    Release dateJuly 28, 1979 (India)
    Running time2h 25m

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Film cast:Sanjeev KumarSharmila TagoreSarikaGulzarSudha ChopraDanny DenzongpaMaster BittuDinesh ThakurRaj VermaR S ChopraNandlal SharmaManik DuttPriya Darshini,Nitin SethiRanjanDevendra Khandelwal
Singer:Bhupendra, Chandrani Mukherjee, Vijay Yesudas
Lyricist:Gulzar
Music Director:Kanu Roy
Film Director:Basu Bhattacharya
Film Producer:Basu BhattacharyaBarua
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Amar and Mansi meet through their respective families and have an arranged marriage. Amar, a book-keeper, is very thrifty, intends to save money so that they can buy their very own flat, ... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sanjeev Kumar ...
Amar
Sharmila Tagore ...
Mansi
Sarika ...
Sapna
Master Bittoo ...
Babla (child)
Sudha Chopra ...
Quarrelsome Neighbor
Manik Dutt
Vimal Joshi
Rajan Verma ...
(as Raj Verma)
Nandlal Sharma ...
(as Nand Lal Sharma)
R.S. Chopra
Satya Banerjee
Shashi Jain
Tarun Mukherjee
Nilesh
Khokha Mukherji ...
(as Khoka Mukherjee)
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Storyline

Amar and Mansi meet through their respective families and have an arranged marriage. Amar, a book-keeper, is very thrifty, intends to save money so that they can buy their very own flat, and both to live as frugally as possible. Mansi soon gives birth to a baby boy, Bablu. Then Sapna joins Amar's firm and is asked to sit in this room, as her youth and beauty has led to distraction in the workplace. Amar reluctantly agrees to share his room with her, and is soon drawn toward her and they often go out together after work. Sapna would like to marry Amar, and asks him to tell his wife, so that the couple can separate. Amar does so, and Mansi agrees to separate on the condition that he introduces Sapna to her, and Amar agrees to do so. Watch how a pensive Mansi goes through the rest of the day - which may well culminate in her losing out to a much younger and attractive woman - a day that may change her life forever. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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A movie that moves with the speed of life
18 February 2002 | by (Seattle) – See all my reviews

It takes something to make such a movie... great direction, I would say. There are periods of silence, there are talks and the talks actually take the time they would have taken in real life. The story is simple. A simple family of three, middleclass, the wife saving money to get a house of their own, and this saving is at times on the cost of little pleasures and conveniences in life. In the meantime the husband finds another girl who comes as a perfect soulmate. They start sharing a close relationship, a closeness that one ever achieves in reality, a closeness where both share the same emotional, psychological and philosophical grounds. And then comes the obvious... a dilemma for the husband, distance between him and his wife growing and an unclear status for the other female. And then he decides to tell his wife and leave her...

A must see for all the people who believe relationships go beyond spending time together. Its a real slow movie, and rather than focussing on what happens, the idea is to involve oneself in feeling the moments that make a relationship grow.


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4.80 - 5 votes
Bhupinder Singh, Sulakshana PanditKanu RoyGulzar
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4.75 - 4 votes
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Pankaj MitraKanu RoyGulzar


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Film cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Sarika, Gulzar, Sudha Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Master Bittu, Dinesh Thakur, Raj Verma, R S Chopra, Nandlal Sharma, Manik Dutt, Priya Darshini, Nitin Sethi, Ranjan, Devendra Khandelwal
Singer: Bhupendra, Chandrani Mukherjee, Vijay Yesudas
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: Kanu Roy
Film Director: Basu Bhattacharya
Film Producer: Basu Bhattacharya, Barua
External Links: Griha Pravesh at IMDB    Griha Pravesh at Wikipedia





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    Kanu Roy                           
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    Kanu Roy was an Indian film actor, and music composer in Hindi and Bengali films. He was the brother of noted Bollywood playback singer Geeta Dutt. Kanu Roy, the music director was not a brother of Geeta Dutt. I have seen a photograph of Geeta Dutt’s full family before her marriage. In this photograph, there is no Kanu Roy. The names of Geeta Dutt’s four brothers are Mihir Roy, Ranjit Roy, Mukul Roy and Milan Roy. He gave music for most of Basu Bhattacharya’s films.Wikipedia
    DiedDecember 20, 1981, India



L to R-geeta dutt,mukul roy,talat mehmood,Hasrat jaipuri

Kanu Roy
Kanu Roy was a music composer in Hindi and Bengali films. Contrary to the popular belief, he is not a brother of Geeta Dutt. Mukul Roy who composed the music for Detective and Sailab is her brother. Kanu Roy gave music for most of Basu Bhattacharya’s films. His major work was for films Uski Kahani (1966) , Anubhav (1971) , Avishkaar (1973) and Griha Pravesh (1979). Interestingly, Kanu Roy never used the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. For his films after Geeta’s demise, he used the voice of Asha Bhonsle.

Geeta Dutt sang a total of only four songs for him and even today they are his most famous compositions, apart from the two divine solos he composed for the legendary Manna Dey (Hansne ki chaah ne and Phir kahin koi phool khila).

All these four songs of Kanu Roy (sung by Geeta ji) have certain common factors like meaningful lyrics, minimum use of orchestra, use of Xylophone, deep rendition of the song by Geeta Dutt and an emotional bonding these songs share with the listener.
Uski Kahani (1966) is the debut film as composer for Kanu Roy and the Geeta Dutt solo “Aaj ki kali ghata, mast matawali ghata” is the only song she sings in this film. It seems that the song appears several times in the film. This song showcases the poet/lyricist Kaifi Azmi's flair for imagery-evoking lyrics, without catering to the rhyme format. The music orchestration of the song is minimal, the words drop like a gentle drizzle and have a mystical quality. Geeta Dutt's velvety vocals extraordinaire -- soft and seductive.

From early sixties to the early seventies, the miseries and ruining of health and professional career had become a vicious circle for Geeta. Guru Dutt had left her with three young children to be raised and huge debts from Guru Dutt Films. Film Anubhav (1971) turned out to be the swan-song for Geeta Dutt, who was once immensely popular and was practically forgotten by 1970! Anubhav proved that even at such a stage in life, Geeta had that something special in her voice and could create that magic given a chance. The critics and music lovers went gaga over her songs from Anubhav. Almost every CD compilation of Geeta Dutt has at least one song from Anubhav.

Each of the three songs from Anubhav is a masterpiece and one can keep discussing the finer elements in these songs in great details. The important factor is that these songs came when Geeta was not in the best of her health conditions, was deserted by all the composers, even her one time loyalists! It is easy to put in words that Geeta sang these songs from the bottom of her heart, but that is indeed an understatement! She was fighting for life and this was her only chance to prove herself. Without sounding dramatic or too emotional, she conveys the feelings of the character in the film (played by Tanuja). The laughter at the end of the song "Mujhe jaan na kahon meri jaan" sounds so natural, and so does the pouting style of singing in the lines "Jaan na kahon anjaan mujhe" antara. Unfortunately Anubhav’s success turned out to be the brighter light of the lamp before it finally extinguishes.
List of songs sung by Geeta Dutt
Please note that this list may not be complete
YearSongFilmCo-Singer
1966
Aaj ki kaali ghata
Uski Kahani
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1971
Mera dil jo mera hota
Anubhav
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1971
Mujhe jaan na kaho
Anubhav
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1971
Koi chupke se aake
Anubhav
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Pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin

by Atul
Kanu Roy, the actor and Kanu Roy, the music director were different persons. Kanu Roy, the actor came to Bombay (Mumbai) in early 1940s to join Bombay Talkies. On the basis of Gulzar’s interview which appeared in a 'Filmfare' issue of 2012, Kanu Roy, the music director came to Bombay sometime in mid-1950s. (My guess is that he may have come with Basu Bhattacharya who was his close friend).
2. Kanu Roy, the actor was never a music director. Kanu Roy, the music director never acted in films.

3. Kanu Roy, the music director was not a brother of Geeta Dutt. I have seen a photograph of Geeta Dutt’s full family before her marriage. In this photograph, there is no Kanu Roy. The names of Geeta Dutt’s four brothers are Mihir Roy, Ranjit Roy, Mukul Roy and Milan Roy.

With multiple confusion about his name, even the basic profile of the music director, Kanu Roy is difficult to get. I could get some information from Gulzar’s interview published in one of the Filmfare issues of 2012 which is available on http://www.tanqeed.com . In this interview, Gulzar talked about his association as a lyricist with Kanu Roy which I have summarized below with my marginal inputs.

Kanu Roy had picked up the musical notes from Bengal. He began his career by assisting music director, Salil Choudhury who also had Kanu Ghosh as his Assistant Music Director. It seems Kanu Roy was a Welder by profession and had worked on the upkeeping of the Howrah Bridge. He was an introvert by nature and had in him a mix of timid and humble nature.
Basu Bhattacharya and Kanu Roy were great friends. It was Basu Bhattacharya who gave Kanu Roy his first break as a music director in ‘Uski Kahaani’ (1966) which he produced and directed at shoestring budget. Subsequently, he worked in another five films of Basu Bhattacharya. Because of the low budget films, Basu Bhattacharya would never allow Kanu Roy to have more than 6-8 musicians (as against 50-100 musicians the music directors like Shankar-Jaikishan, Naushad, O P Nayyar etc would have in their orchestra). Also, Kanu Roy would not get the regular shifts in the recording studios for rehearsals of the songs. He had to manage in the early morning hours of the recording studio. He did not have a bargaining power with Basu Bhattacharya to ask for more musicians. (Probably for the same reason, he may not have got the playback singers of his choice). It is remarkable that with these constraints, Kanu Roy could composed melodious songs in Basu Bhattacharya’s films.
Kanu Roy’s career ended with his life on 20/12/1981. He lived in poverty and died in poverty.

During his musical journey from 1966-80, Kanu Roy composed 28 songs in 8 films, of which 6 films were of Basu Bhattacharya. Of the remaining two films, one film ‘Mayuri’ (1970s) remained unreleased. Though his contributions to Hindi film music in terms of numbers were low, many of his melodious songs still linger on. Unfortunately, his name may not ring bell for many who may still enjoy those melodious songs.

Although most of Kanu Roy’s melodious songs have been covered in the Blog, I found one song which I liked for its all-round excellence – lyrics, rendition, melody, composition and the picturization. The song is ‘pahchaan to thhi pahchaana nahi’ from ’Griha Pravesh’ (1979). The song is rendered by Chandrani Mukherjee on the words of Gulzar. Having watched the film, I feel that this song summarises the theme of the film.

Amar (Sanjeev Kumar) and Mansi (Sharmila Tagore) has been married for 10 years with 8-year old boy. During this period, some staleness in their relationship develops. Both are under the illusion that they are in love but in practice, they are just being together under one roof. Now their marriage is in the verge of collapse when Amar develops affairs with his office typist Sapna (Sarika). He is caught in a bind in that while he loves Sapna, in the back of his mind, he is also emotionally attached to his family.

Finally, Amar tells Mansi of his intention to divorce her to marry Sapna. After the initial shock, Mansi agrees for divorce on the condition that he should bring Sapna to the house to meet her. The reason is that Sapna has seen Amar in the office as an Accountant and develop the liking for him in an office environment. But she has not seen him in his house where the environment is different.

Before Sapna visit to her house, Mansi gets her house painted. She undergoes herself to a new make-over. While doing this, the song under discussion plays in the background. Sapna visits her house with Amar. After a brief meeting, Mansi takes Amar aside and tell him that she is ready to leave him for Sapna. After the meeting, Mansi tells Amar to drop Sapna to her house. However, when crossing the road, Sapna walks over to the other side of the road while Amar gets stranded on the opposite side because of a marriage procession on the road. In the midst of the orchestra in the marriage procession playing ‘tu Ganga ki mauj mein Jamuna ki dhara’, both Amar and Sapna take leave by waving hands at each other. The scene is symbolic of conveying the message that Amar has a change of heart. The film ends with Amar returning home having coffee with Mansi and his son with the replaying of the film’s song ‘zindagi phoolon ki nahi, phoolon ki tarah mehkti rahe’.

The lyrics of the song under discussion are simple and convey retrospection on the part of a housewife who forgets to give attention to herself. Instead, much of her time is spent in the kitchen, looking after husband and the child and upkeep of the house. In this milieu, she forgets her own identity.

In keeping with the low budget of the film, Kanu Roy has used only three main musical instruments in this song – Sarod, Sitar and what I believe to be Khol (Bangla Dholak) which one can hear in a low rhythm as the song is rendered. The song starts with a prelude of Sarod and Sitar and the same instruments are used in the interludes of the song. Chandrani Mukherjee, who is the sister-in-law of Bappi Lahiri, has rendered the song with poignant feeling in keeping with the mood of the situation. The Audio clip is longer with the same lyrics because it has the longer prelude music than in the video clip.

This song sums up the story of a housewife in a middle-class society.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin(Grih Pravesh)(1979) Singer-Chandrani Mukherjee, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-Kanu Roy
Lyrics
pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin
maine apne aap ko jaana nahin
pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin
maine apne aap ko jaana nahin
pehchaan to thhi
jab dhoop barasti hai sar pe to
paanv mein chhaanv khilti hai
main bhool gayi thhi chhaanv agar
milti hai to dhoop mein milti hai
is dhoop aur chhaanv ke khel mein kyun
jeene ka ishaara samjha nahin
pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin
maine apne aap ko jaana nahin
pehchaan to thhi
main jaagi rahi kuchh sapnon mein
aur jaagi huyi bhi soyi rahi
jaane kin bhool bhulaiyya mein kuchh
bhatki rahi kuchh khoyi rahi
jeene ke liye main marti rahi
jeene ka ishaara samjha nahin
pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin
maine apne aap ko jaana nahin
pehchaan to thhi pehchaana nahin
maine apne aap ko jaana nahin
pehchaan to thhi
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MORE ABOUT KANU ROY:-

Kanu Roy

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Kanu Roy
BornDecember 9, 1912
DiedDecember 20, 1981
India
Occupationmusic director
Years active1943–1983
Kanu Roy was an Indian film actor and music composer in Hindi and Bengali films. He gave music for most of Basu Bhattacharya's films.
His most famous compositions are for Geeta Dutt, such as Aaj ki Kaalighata and Uski Kahani (1966), Lyrics: Kaifi Azmi, and the songs of Geeta Dutt's last film as a singer, Anubhav (1971) – "Koi Chupke Se Aake", "Mera Dil Jo Mera Hota" and "Meri Jaan Mujhe Jaan Na Kaho".[1] He also gave two hits to Manna Dey in Anubhav – "Phir Koi Phool Khila" and in Avishkaar – "Hansne Ki Chaah Ne Kitna Mujhe Rulaya Hai". The Jagjit and Chitra Singh rendition of "Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaye" in Avishkaar (1973) is also fairly well known. His other films were not so successful, however.

Filmography

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