Ep 5: Garm Hava (1974) | M.S. Sathyu | Balraj Sahni | Geeta Kak| Farooq Shaikh| Kaifi Azmi | Shama Zaidi

08/14/24 • 47 min

Best film made on the partition. One of the best films made in India. One of the best films made in India in 1970s. In case of the film under discussion today, these are not some vacuous headlines on its DVD cover. But these are legitimate claims that this film can made. We are of course talking about 'Garm Hava'

Garm Hava was released in May 1974.

Directed by M.S. Sathyu

Story and Screenplay by Kaifi Azmi and Shama Zaidi

Dialogues by Kaifi Azmi, and Story by Ismat Chughtai

The film has stellar cast which includes Balraj Sahni, A.K. Hangal, Geeta Kak, Yunus Parvez and many more very talented actors.

The film deals with the plight of a North Indian Muslim family - Mirza family, in post-partition India in 1947-48. As the protagonist - mainly Balraj Sahni, deals with his dilemma of whether to move to Pakistan or stay behind, the film details the slow disintegration of his family and the plight of Muslims in post-partition India.

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Garm Hava was released in May 1974.

Directed by M.S. Sathyu

Story and Screenplay by Kaifi Azmi and Shama Zaidi

Dialogues by Kaifi Azmi, and Story by Ismat Chughtai

The film has stellar cast which includes Balraj Sahni, A.K. Hangal, Geeta Kak, Yunus Parvez and many more very talented actors.

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Ep 4: Benaam & Majboor (1974) | Amitabh Bachchan | Salim-Javed | Narendra Bedi | Ravi Tandon

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Two films in today podcast - Benaam and Majboor! It's a double bill. Two films in a single ticket. The common thread between both the films is - both are Big B - Amitabh Bachchan films and both were released fifty years ago. These were significant films for Amitabh and they came in the same year 1974. Also, these are noteworthy films in the folklore of Hindi films.

Benaam

A high level story line is this: Benaam is a story of Amit and Sheela (played by Amitabh Bachchan and Mausami Chatterjee). Amit witnesses an attempted murder as they are driving to a party one night. Their arrival scares off the assailant, whose face they do not see, and they take the wounded man to the hospital. Here begins their nightmare, as they start to receive threatening phone calls. What happens next - that's Benaam.

Benaam was released on 18 October 1974.

Directed by: Narendra Bedi

Written by: Narendra Bedi , Jayant Dharmadhikari and Kader Khan

The second film is Majboor:

It was released on 13 September 1974.

A synopsis of the film goes like this : Ravi Khanna played by Amitabh Bachchan lives happily with his widowed mother, wheelchair-bound sister and younger brother. He suffers from a terminal brain tumour, and has only 6 months to live. In an effort to provide for his family, he takes the responsibility of a murder that he has not committed to collect the ransom money. The story goes through various twists and tuns and becomes a full blown thriller by the climax.

Directed by: Ravi Tandon

Written by : Salim Javed

It was released on 6 December 1973.

Its a Double Bill - Amitabh Bachchan's Benaam & Majboor.

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When Raj Kapoor shouted at Rishi Kapoor 'मुझे यूसुफ़ चाहिए, यूसुफ़!'

We know Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were direct contemporaries. They had a friendship and but they also had a well-guarded rivalry. Which is to be expected from the contemporaries.

There is that famous story when Raj Kapoor moved heaven and earth to cast Dilip Kumar in Sangam. Sagam made in 1963 was an ambitious project. To be produced and directed by Rak Kapoor. It had a dram like planning. Evergreen story of that classic love triangle. Great music. Shooting all over the world. No expense spared.

Despite all this, Dilip Kumar still rejected the film. But he was particularly heartbroken because of the reason Dilip Kumar cited.: He rejected the film because of Raj Kapoor was also directing it. He thought he wouldn’t get a fair treatment in the film which was going to be produced, directed and co-starred by Raj Kapoor.

This story of rejection became an open secret. Everyone knew about it but no one dared to talk about it. I did not find any record of Raj Kapoor approaching Dilip Kumar again for any role.

Many many years later. Year 1981. Raj Kapoor was on the set of his film ‘Prem Rog’. Directing it. It was a particularly emotional scene. Rishi Kapoor his son and the lead in the film was trying his best but Raj Kapoor was not having any of it. He gave few suggestions. Assistants read the back story again to bring Rishi Kapoor in the desired state of mind. Production staff got ready. ‘Action’ was called. Rishi Kapoor did the scene again. Aaaaaaand ‘CUT’. Scene ended.

Raj Kapoor had turned red by this time. He was a seething with anger. He screamed at Rishi Kapoor: 'क्या कर रहा है? मुझे यूसुफ़ चाहिए यूसुफ़, ये सीन मैं!

Glances were exchanged. Everyone on the set, including Rishi Kapoor noticed – who by the way is the source of this story.

We all know – who Yusuf is. Yusuf of course is Dilip Kumar. Despite the rivalry and professional fall out – Yusuf aka Dilip Kumar was not only his favourite actor but he was also his high-water mark that he wanted his son to hit.

Also, so committed was Raj Kapoor to his craft of film making he did not care for single moment that in the process of giving action instructions, he was giving big compliment to his rival.

'मुझे यूसुफ़ चाहिए, यूसुफ़!'

I just love this story.

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