Milan (1967 film)

For other films, see Milan (film).
Milan
Directed by Adurthi Subba Rao
Produced by L.V. Prasad
Written by A Mullapudi
Starring Sunil Dutt
Nutan
Pran
Jamuna
Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal
Cinematography P.L. Raj
Edited by Tirunagari. Krishna
Distributed by Rajshree Pictures
Release dates
  • 17 March 1967 (1967-03-17)
Running time
 170 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Bengali

Milan is a 1967 Hindi film directed by Adurthi Subba Rao.[1] It was a remake of his hit Telugu film Mooga Manasulu (1963) and was produced by L. V. Prasad. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Jamuna (reprising her role from the original Telugu version), Pran and Deven Varma. The award-winning and very popular music was given by Laxmikant Pyarelal. It is among the earliest films to deal with the theme of reincarnation.

Plot

Movie starts with the marriage of Radha Devi and Gopinath (Sunil Dutt and Nutan). They start on their honeymoon and has to pass across a river on a ferry boat. While they are in the middle of the river, Gopinath suddenly begins to hallucinate about whirlpool and shouts that they are going to die. Despite of the reassurances from Radha and boatman, Gopinath couldn't be calmed, so Radha orders boatman to take them to nearby shore. Once they reach there, Gopinath starts to say things about Bibiji and a palace that should be there. Radha gets confused and follows him.

They meet with an old man who tells them that Bibiji and Gopi are long dead and their palace was now in ruins. Gopinath asks about Gowri, shepherd girl. Old man tells them that she is still alive and would come daily to the graves of Gopi and Radha. While they are talking, an old lady comes there and Gopi recognizes her as Gowri. They go to her and she too recognizes them and tells them that they took rebirth to live together in this life. She starts to narrate their story.

Gopi was a poor orphan living with his grandmother in a village on the banks of Ganges. He carries passengers on his boat across the river for living. Radha was a daughter of a zamindar and studies in the city college. Gopi carries her across the river and gives her a rose everyday. Radha finds his innocence lively and maintains a platonic relation with him. He teaches her a song which makes her the winner of singing competition in the college. Gowri (Jamuna), a shepherd girl has feelings for Gopi and always thinks that they are going to marry one day despite of Gopi's disinterest for her. Meanwhile, Rambabu (Deven Varma), Radha's classmate gets attracted to her and starts pursuing. He writes a letter to Radha expressing his love. Radha gets angry for that and sends Gopi to teach him a lesson. But her step mother finds that letter and thinks that Radha is also interested in Rambabu. She sends her brother and Radha's uncle (Pran) to settle this matter.

He meets with Rambabu and finds out that he is the heir of a very rich and respectable Roy family and he sincerely wants to marry Radha. He settles their marriage and Radha's parents feel happy about it. Meanwhile, Radha starts to acknowledge her feelings for Gopi and gets shocked to know that her parents settled her marriage with Rambabu. She tries to explain but her father thinks that she was already in love with Rambabu and there is nothing to discuss. She goes to Gopi and tells him about her betrothal and he receives it passively. He indirectly indicates that whatever their feelings for each other are, class difference wouldn't allow any sort of relation between them. Radha accepts her fate and marries Rambabu and leaves her village.

As fate has different plans, she comes back to her father's house two months later as a widow. Everybody including her parents, uncle, Gopi and Gowri are shocked and feel bad to see her like that. Her father who was already ill, can't bear to see her in that condition and dies. Radha's uncle tries to molest Gowri but Gopi comes between and saves her. This leads to acrimony between Gopi and him. Gopi continues to meet Radha to console her and to give her courage to live. But Gowri becomes irritated with their relation and fights loudly with Gopi regarding that. This leads to rumors in the village of Radha's affair with Gopi and Radha's mother gets disturbed. Even Radha's in-laws reject to give her share in their property as she was unfaithful to her husband.

At last these rumors reach Radha's ears and she goes to Gopi to talk about them. She gets surprised to see how Gopi made his little hut a temple for her. She realizes that he loved her dearly and asks him to elope with her. Gopi hesitates but she tells him that she longer care about the society who has no sympathy for her. They start crossing the river and her uncle follows them with villagers. Gowri, feeling repentant for spreading rumors, offers her body to Radha's uncle asks in return to stop the hunt. He agrees and stops the villagers but whirlpool comes and takes Radha and Gopi in.

In present-day Gowri feels happy to see them as a couple and dies in the hands of Gopinath.

Cast

Soundtrack

The lyrics of the film were career-defining for Anand Bakshi and helped take him to the "top", with songs like "Sawan Ka Mahina Pawan Kare Sor", "Ram Kare Aisa Ho Jaaye" and "Bol Gori Bol".[2] The music was by Lakshmikant Pyarelal and the playback singers were Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh.[3]

# Title Singer(s)
1 "Sawan Ka Mahina" Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
2 "Hum Tum Yug Yug Se (Part 1)" Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
3 "Bol Gori Bol Tera Kaun Piya" Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
4 "Aaj Dil Pe Koi" Lata Mangeshkar
5 "Hum Tum Yug Yug Se (Part 2)" Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
6 "Main To Diwana" Mukesh
7 "Ram Kare Aisa Ho Jaye" Mukesh
8 "Ye Geet Milan Ke" Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
9 "Bol Gori Bol Tera Kaun Piya" Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
10 "Aaj Dil Pe Koi Zor Chalta Nahin" Lata Mangeshkar
11 "Tohe Sanwariya" Lata Mangeshkar

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Peter Cowie (1977). World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 264–. ISBN 978-0-498-01565-6. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Tilak Rishi (2012). Bless You Bollywood!: A Tribute to Hindi Cinema on Completing 100 Years. Trafford Publishing. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-1-4669-3963-9. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Milan (1967)". hindigeetmala.net. Hindi Geetmala. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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