Dak Ghar
| Dak Ghar | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Zul Vellani |
| Produced by | Children's Film Society |
| Written by | based on play by Rabindranath Tagore |
| Starring |
Balraj Sahni Mukri Sachin |
| Music by |
Madan Mohan (composer) Kaifi Azmi (lyricist) |
Release dates | 1965 |
Running time | 60 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Dak Ghar 1965 Bollywood fim based on an eponymous play by Rabindranath Tagore.[1] It was directed by Zul Vellani and starred Sachin, Mukri, AK Hangal, Sudha and Satyen Kappu among others, with cameo appearances by Balraj Sahni and Sharmila Tagore.[2]
Background
Dak Ghar is a 1912 Bengali play by Rabindranath Tagore. W.B. Yeats produced an English-language version of the play and also wrote a preface to it.[3] It was also translated into Spanish and French. It was performed in English for the first time in 1913 by the Irish Theatre in London with Tagore himself in the attendance. The Bengali original was staged in Calcutta in 1917. It also had a successful run in Germany with performances in concentration camps during World War II.[4] A Polish version was performed under the supervision of Janusz Korczak in the Warsaw ghetto.[5]
Plot
Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new Post Office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fanatasising about visiting the King beyond the hills, and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house.[2]
Cast
- Sachin ..... Amal
- AK Hangal ..... Pandit-doctor
- Satyen Kappu .... Madho
- Sudha .... flower seller girl
- Balraj Sahni ..... Andhe Baba
- Mukri .... Dahiwala
Soundtrack
- Jhan Jhan Baaje Iktaara, Raja Ka Mai Harakaara .... Sushma Shrestha
- Kheli Hu Bahaaron Me, Bahaaron Me, Bahaaron Me Pali Hu Hu ....
- Kyu Roj Akela Jaata Hai Ae Suraj Le Chal Saath Mujhe .... Bhupinder
- Taaza Dahi Le Lo Taaza Dahi, Taaza Dahi Le Lo .... Shyam Vasvani
- Taaza Dahi Le Lo Taaza Dahi, Taaza Dahi Le Lo ....
- Ye Bhor Jahaan Se Aati Hai, Koi Mujhko Wahan Pahuncha Deta .... Bhupinder
See also
References
- ↑ "Dak Ghar". IMDB. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- 1 2 "Dak Ghar (1966)". Memsaab Story. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ Yeats, William Butler (1989). Prefaces and introductions: uncollected prefaces and introductions by Yeats to works by other authors and to anthologies edited by Yeats. Simon & Schuster. p. 311.
- ↑ "Tagore for today". The Hindu. August 30, 2012.
- ↑ Dutta, Krishna; Robinson, Andrew, eds. (1998). Rabindranath Tagore: an anthology. Macmillan. pp. 21–50.
External links
- Dak Ghar at the Internet Movie Database