Char Dil Char Rahen l Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Meena Kumari l 1959

Synopsis : Abbas only venture into the star-studded Hindi film mainstream. It tells a parable about love and community using three stories, each featuring a hero, his lover and a villain. The Ahir youth Govinda (Kapoor) is prevented from marrying his childhood sweetheart Chavli (Kumari) because she is an Untouchable. Chavli is driven out of the village but Govinda goes and waits for her at a crossroads. Dilwar (Ajit), a Pathan chauffeur, rescues the dancing-girl Pyari (Nimmi) from the clutches of his employer, a villanious nawab, but Pyari refuses to escape without her mother. Pyari then settles down at the same crossroads and starts a small shop, waiting for Dilwar to relent and to accept both of them. The hotel employee Johny Nraganza (S. Kapoor) falls in love with Stella DSouza (Kumkum) who is coveted by his boss Ferreira (David). Ferreira frames Johny and has him jailed. Johny later joins the group at the croosroads and starts a garage. The trade union leader Nirmal Kumar (Jairaj) eventually enlists the trio at the croosroads help build road. Blasting through a hill, Govinda finds Chavli again and the whole community walks down their road singing the socialist song Sathi re kadam kadam se dil se dil mila rahe. Later, in an interview with Vasudev and Lenglet (1983) Abbas balmed the films failure on the stars lack of screen glamour: Meena Kumari was balckened, Raj Kapoor was put in a dhoti, Shammi Kapoor was made into a waiter, Nimmi was made into a prostitute. He never worked with major stars again.

Director: K. A. Abbas
Music: Anil Biswas
Main Cast: Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Meena Kumari, Anwar Hussain… more
Genre: Social
Banner: Naya Sansar
Release: 1959

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