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Rail Ka Dibba
1953 film
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Rail Ka Dibba Poster ... young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home - an abandoned railway coach. ... Best Films of Shammi Kapoor.
 
A heart-warming tale of good samaritanism. A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home - an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions ... See full summary »

Director:

Prem Narayan Arora

Stars:

Madhubala, Shammi Kapoor, Sajjan | See full cast & crew »

Cast

Credited cast:
Madhubala Madhubala ... Chanda
Shammi Kapoor Shammi Kapoor ... Sundar
Sajjan Sajjan ... Mohan
Om Prakash Om Prakash ... Nirogi
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Amar Amar

Ram Avtar Ram Avtar

Cuckoo Cuckoo

Pratima Devi Pratima Devi

Helen Helen

Jayant Jayant

Manju Manju

Yasmin Yasmin

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A heart-warming tale of good samaritanism. A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home - an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions arise in the group when he marries one of the inmates, a young, destitute girl, since his friend (one of the other inmates) loves her too. The group breaks up and the coach is abandoned. Time passes, fortunes turn and penitence brings the group back together. Written by Hrishi Dixit
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Drama

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Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Also Known As:

Railway Coach See more »

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Sound Mix:

Mono

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Debut film of Shammi Kapoor. See more »

Shammi Kapoor was smitten by Madhubala's beauty and kept on forgetting his lines during the shoot.Madhubala would then make him comfortable in saying his dialog' Photographic Lobby Cards
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Shammi Kapoor was very thin during the film shoot.He and Madhubala bonded well and she told him that he should gain weight 
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in order to gain weight Shammi Kapoor started drinking beer. Ten years later, when we met on the sets of Girl Friend, I was a star and very self-assured. She looked at me and said, 'You look very confident now, but you need to lose lots of weight, you have become f-a-a-t.' How could anyone resist a woman like that? She was always blunt, in-your-face.'


Debut film of Shammi Kapoor.


Shammi Kapoor had signed P N Arora's Jeevan Jyoti 1953 first. but Rail Ka Dibba started shooting before that.

very first film Shammi Kapor had signed was his friend Aspi Irani's Hum Tum Aur Woh opposite Madhubala. But that film didn't go beyond the opening shot.  
I must admit, in spite of knowing that

Madhu was already in love, I could not resist falling madly in love with her. No one can blame me for it. Even today, after meeting so many women and having had relationships with God knows how many, I can swear that I have never seen a more beautiful woman. Add to that her sharp intellect, maturity, poise and sensitivity. She was awesome.' (Shammi was speaking to me[Rediff.com]in early 2011, a few months before his demise.)

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When Shammi Kapoor fell for Madhubala

He had even proposed marriage to Madhubala. When she had giggled it off, he was said to have gone home and cried in front of his mother, only to be snubbed by her.
'Are you in your senses? You can't marry her, she is a Muslim. There will be too many problems,' she had warned him tersely.

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Feb 3, 2016 - IMAGE: Madhubala and Shammi Kapoor in their last film together, Boy Friend (1961). ... had gone on the floor ahead of it, as if it was ordained that his career should start with Madhubala. ... Soon I took to drinking lots of beer

When Shammi Kapoor fell for Madhubala


Last updated on: February 03, 2016 18:50 IST

He had even proposed marriage to Madhubala.

Madhubala and Shammi Kapoor in Boy Friend.
IMAGE: Madhubala and Shammi Kapoor in their last film together, Boy Friend (1961).
Rail Ka Dibba had a silver lining for Shammi (Kapoor): The 'exciting experience' of working with the 'gorgeous' Madhubala, 'who was just out of this world,' as Shammi had gushed.

'When I met her on the set of Rail Ka Dibba for the first time, I could not take my eyes off her. I was like hit by a thunderbolt,' he had confessed.

In spite of his overt self-confidence and cavalier disposition, he was 'extremely nervous' taking Madhubala in his arms for an intimate scene. 'I was so nervous that I kept forgetting my lines,' he had said. 'And she was fully aware of the effect she had been having on me and was relishing it thoroughly.'

He just couldn't stop the rhapsody: 'She was breathtakingly beautiful... Woh jab paani peeti thi toh aisa lagta tha jaise yahan se (runs his finger down his neck) ek nas mein se paani guzarta hua neeche ja raha hai... (when she drank water, it was as if I could see water flowing down her throat). She was so delicate.'

'Those days Madhu was romantically involved with Dilip Kumar on the one side and Premnath on the other. I kept wondering yeh Shammi Kapoor beech mein kaise aa gaya? (How did Shammi Kapoor land in between?) Since I was just a nobody at that stage, no one had bothered to associate my name with Madhu's.'
'She was very much in love with Dilip Kumar, so was he with her.
 Related image I remember during the making of Naqab at Prabhat Talkies in Poona, he would often drive to the location all the way from Bombay to see her. If she was shooting, he would stand at a distance outside the 'field' of the camera and single-mindedly watch her perform without disturbing her.'

'I must admit, in spite of knowing that Madhu was already in love, I could not resist falling madly in love with her.  

No one can blame me for it. Even today, after meeting so many women and having had relationships with God knows how many, I can swear that I have never seen a more beautiful woman. Add to that her sharp intellect, maturity, poise and sensitivity. She was awesome.' (Shammi was speaking to me in early 2011, a few months before his demise.)


Becoming very nostalgic about Madhubala, he wondered 'why women like Madhubala don't happen anymore?' After a pause, 'When I think of her even now, after six decades, my heart misses a beat. My God, what beauty. What presence. Today's girls make me feel they might have just hopped out of incubators.'

After another pause, he had said, 'I think life was a bit too harsh on her. She didn't deserve to go through all that she did.'
Saira Banu and Shammi Kapoor in Junglee
IMAGE: Saira Banu and Shammi Kapoor in Junglee (1961).
He had even proposed marriage to Madhubala. When she had giggled it off, he was said to have gone home and cried in front of his mother, only to be snubbed by her.

'Are you in your senses? You can't marry her, she is a Muslim. There will be too many problems,' she had warned him tersely. Those were conservative days.

After blissfully relishing the attention the tall, stylish, irresistibly handsome young man was lavishing on her, Madhubala had turned pragmatic and made him see reason. 'To be fair to Madhu,' Shammi had admitted, 'even though she kept teasing and tantalising me, she never let me forget that she was madly in love with Yusuf (Dilip Kumar). She could never resist mentioning Yusuf at the slightest opportunity. She seemed to feel motherly towards me.'

Though Shammi had signed on Jeevan Jyoti first, P N Arora's Rail Ka Dibba had gone on the floor ahead of it, as if it was ordained that his career should start with Madhubala.

In fact, the first ever film Shammi had signed was his friend Aspi Irani's Hum Tum Aur Woh opposite Madhubala. But that film didn't go beyond the opening shot. Shammi was a beginner during Rail Ka Dibba. A confident and more experienced Madhubala would go all out to help him in whatever way she could.

Madhubala and Shammi Kapoor had worked together in two more films after Rail Ka Dibba: Lekhraj Bhakri's Naqab (1955) and Naresh Saigal's Boy Friend (1961). By Naqab, Shammi had gained in a lot of confidence.

'On the sets, Madhu and I would have long academic discussions, especially on love and love scenes in our films. We did some very interesting love scenes in Naqab,' Shammi had said.
Their last film together was Boy Friend. By then Shammi was a big star and flying high. 'I remember filming the delicate Rafi Saab number Salaam, Aapki Meethi Nazar Ko Salaam. It was as if I was actually serenading her,' Shammi had recalled.


Kalpana Mohan and Shammi Kapoor in Professor
IMAGE: Kalpana Mohan and Shammi Kapoor in Professor (1962).
Madhubala was so fascinated by Shammi's presentation of another song in the film, Dheere Chal Ae Bheegi Hawa that she would keep one eye open as he serenaded her (though she was supposed to be asleep in the sequence.
When he chided her for distracting him, she said, 'I can't help it, Shammi, I am fascinated by what you are doing... ;the way you are enacting the song. Where do you learn all this?' Shammi would just laugh it away.

Recalling one of his earlier meetings with her, Shammi had said, 'After we became friends during Rail Ka Dibba, Madhu would often tell me that I was too thin and needed to put on weight. Soon I took to drinking lots of beer. Ten years later, when we met on the sets of Girl Friend, I was a star and very self-assured. She looked at me and said, 'You look very confident now, but you need to lose lots of weight, you have become f-a-a-t.' How could anyone resist a woman like that? She was always blunt, in-your-face.'
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asha parekh and Shammi Kapoor
Shammi thought Madhubala was a highly underrated actress in spite of performing consistently well in her films. His favourite film of hers was Guru Dutt's Mr and Mrs 55 (1955), though for sheer intensity and professional approach he had 'loved' Mughal-e-Azam (1960).
His obsession had also taught Shammi a lesson, as he admitted: 'The spell of helplessness I experienced with Madhu did set me thinking and I resolved never again to be
so helpless in front of a woman. I had become too vulnerable with her.'

'After that, I didn't ask for any of the top heroines o
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f the day to be paired with me. I didn't ask for a Nargis, Vyjayanthimala or a Padmini. Not that I had a choice at that stage in my career, but it was always easier to work with newcomers. I worked with Vyjayanthimala and Padmini much later in my career after I had established myself.'
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'I made a film with Meena Kumari too, Mem Sahib (1956), but it was a smaller role, a negative one at that, and I get bumped off around the interval. The hero of the film was Kishore Kumar. By the way, I got raves for my death scene. It disturbed me because at that stage nobody would talk about my 'live' acts.' (Laughs)
'Most of my heroines like Ameeta, Asha Parekh, Ragini, Sharmila Tagore, Rajshree and Kalpana were freshers, who were either making their debut opposite me or doing their second or third film. It was always easy working with them because I knew where I stood with them and could call all the shots, have my way without being questioned. In return, they achieved instant stardom.'


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Film cast:Shammi KapoorMadhubalaSajjanOm ParkeshYasminCuckooJayantRam AvtarManjuAmarPratima Devi
Singer:Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi, Shamshad Begum, Gandhari
Lyricist:Shakeel Badayuni
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Feb 10, 2010 - And though it's not a really bad film, Rail ka Dibba left me feeling pretty certain that I won't be watching it again. Anybody who wants it is ...

 

Sundar (Shammi Kapoor) is a poor young man who makes his living by being a 1950’s Hindi film version of a human billboard. A shoe company pays for his clothes, including a jacket on which their advertisement is emblazoned.
One day, faffing about near a lake, Sundar sees a girl (Madhubala) jump into the water. He quickly hauls off his shoes (smart thing to do!) and leaps in to fish her out. Unfortunately for him, the girl is not in the least grateful for his rescuing of her—she lets fly at him and tells him she wanted to drown. She even tries to run back into the water.

Sundar slaps the girl and manages to stem her hysteria. In between sniffles, she tells him her story: her name is Chanda, she’s an orphan and she has no-one in the whole wide world. She’s tried getting work as a maid in various households, but it’s invariably led to quarrels between the master and mistress, leading to Chanda being thrown out. Now, even her landlord has evicted her from her home, since she hasn’t paid rent for a long time. With no place to live and no hope left, Chanda has decided that suicide is the best option.

Sundar is horrified at this girl’s defeatist attitude. He gives her a pep talk and then tells her that she can come over to his place and live there. It’s not much, but at least she’ll have a roof over her head. Chanda cheers up, and Sundar takes her to his home, which is—is the Indian Railways listening?—an old, derelict railway carriage standing by itself near the railway tracks. Chanda immediately falls in love with it and begins to think of it as home.

Soon after, she is introduced to Sundar’s friends: Professor Nirogi (Om Prakash), a perpetually tipsy ex-magician and showman:

And Mohan (Sajjan), unemployed but with very definite political views which he spouts to anyone who’s willing to listen. Mohan also lives with Sundar in the rail ka dibba, and admits to Chanda that he came to this place the same way she did—Sundar saved his life and brought him here.

Professor Nirogi, like Chanda, has not been paying rent, so one fine day his landlord (Jayant) throws him out. The ever generous Sundar insists that Nirogi come and stay in the rail ka dibba too, so now they’re a cosy foursome. The rail ka dibba becomes a little haven of happiness and brotherly (also sisterly?) love: they share whatever meagre food they get, and there’s much self-sacrificing and forced smiles. Even when Sundar loses his job and they’re wondering where their next meal will come from, they grin bravely on, or at least stick together, even if they can’t summon up the energy to grin.

At this point, the scene shifts abruptly to the office of a newspaper called Prakash Daily. The general factotum of the newspaper (actor?) is exceptionally busy on this particular day because Prakash Daily has run up unprecedented sales—from being a rag which ends up being sold mainly to the raddiwallah (the rubbish collector), it’s selling like hot cakes. The owner (actor? Ram Avtar, identified by bollyviewer and memsaab) of Prakash Daily, when he arrives in his office, is unable to figure out why his newspaper is suddenly so popular.

A telephone call, however, seems to solve the mystery: the newspaper had carried an article about vox populi—and the young man featured in it had some interesting political views that readers seemed to have warmed to. Okay, now I’m beginning to see light.

But the scene now shifts back to the quartet in the rail ka dibba. Chanda tells Sundar she’ll try to find work, but he shuts her up. No, he and his pals won’t live off her earnings. Never.
One day, though, Mohan and Nirogi see Chanda dancing as she goes about her work, and Nirogi offers to take Chanda to a theatre where she may be paid to dance. Mohan, Nirogi and Chanda go to the theatre, and she’s hired to do a show.
[Aside: I see no reason for the theatre scene, other than a song-and-dance for Madhubala. She does get on the stage, but it’s a one-time appearance, and though they get paid, the theatre manager steals the money back. End result? Nothing, except that Sundar half-drowns Nirogi when he comes to know that Nirogi put Chanda onstage.]

While Sundar, Nirogi and Chanda are still trying to find ways to make ends meet, Mohan arrives with fabulous news: the newspaper Prakash Daily has hired him, at the fantastic sum of Rs 300 per month. And Mohan, bursting with happiness, has bought gifts for his friends with the advance he’s received: a sari for Chanda, a mandolin for Sundar, a crystal ball for Nirogi. To celebrate, they pile into a taxi and go off to the beach, for a walk, a swim, and some general rejoicing.

In the course of the evening, Nirogi drifts off—to join an itinerant magician who’s doing a show on the beach—and Mohan gets pulled into a political rally of sorts. Sundar and Chanda end up by themselves, and when it starts raining, they look for shelter. Unlike other filmy couples with little or no hold on their libidos, this pair is exceptionally ‘good’: they take refuge in a temple full of priests, and get married.

For some odd reason, neither Sundar nor Chanda think it important to tell their friends of the wedding. (Um. A thought, here: how do they maintain the charade in the somewhat close confines of the rail ka dibba?) Anyway, one can’t really blame Mohan when one day he finds Chanda on her own and tells her that now that he’s earning well and is going to be given a big house to stay in, he’d like to get married to Chanda.

Chanda is horrified, and tells Mohan why she can’t marry him, with the result that he flies into a rage. Sundar comes bouncing in at this moment too, and there’s general mayhem. The men rush at each other’s throats, and Chanda rushes around shrieking (I hadn’t known Madhubala could be this raucous). Finally, Sundar knocks Mohan out and drags his inert body onto the railway tracks. Chanda is getting hysterical by now, so Sundar, still in a fury, explains: this is where he’d first found Mohan—and stopped him from committing suicide—so, now that Mohan’s proved himself to be a slimeball, it’s best to push him back to square one.

Chanda tries to plead with Sundar: if Mohan dies, pulped under a train, Sundar will be a murderer. He’ll go to jail. Does he want to see Chanda left to her own devices all over again?
We never really know what happens at this stage, because the film inexplicably (Friends: Do you have an explanation?) jumps to another scene. Nirogi’s telling Sundar and Chanda that the police will be coming around any minute now, so they’d better make their escape. And so the miyan-biwi go away from the rail ka dibba, away into the world… and the film goes on, in its meandering way.

What I liked about this film:
Madhubala. She’s so very beautiful. I wish I could have said the same for Shammi Kapoor (who, along with Madhubala, was one of the reasons I saw this film). Sadly, what with that moustache, he reminds me too much of Raj Kapoor… I need to see Dil Deke Dekho or another of his later films to erase the somewhat uncomfortable memory of Rail ka Dibba.

One song: Duniya jawaan hai, dil meherbaan. It’s a great song, and Cuckoo’s at her best.
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