Chirag

Chirag (Hindi: चिराग; English: Light) is a 1969 Indian Bollywood film directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh in lead roles. Apart from other plus points, it has the famous song "Teri Aankhon Ke Siwa" sung separately by Mohd. Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. It also has "Mere Bichhade Sathi Sunta Ja" and "Chhayi Barakha Bahar.." both sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Chirag
DVD cover
Directed byRaj Khosla
Produced byPremji
Written byAkhtar ul Iman
StarringSunil Dutt
Asha Parekh
Music byMadan Mohan
Majrooh Sultanpuri (lyrics)
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Plot

Ajay Singh (Sunil Dutt) meets Asha Chibber (Asha Parekh), and is led to believe that she belongs to a wealthy family. After a few misunderstandings, he does find out that she is a simple girl living a poor lifestyle. Both do fall in love, and Ajay goes to meet with Asha's brother, Dr. O.P. Chibber (Om Prakash), and his wife, Shanti (Sulochana Latkar). They are pleased to meet him, and Ajay's mother, Gayetridevi (Lalita Pawar) visits them and approves of Asha. Ajay and Asha get married and settle down. After marriage Asha is expected to conceive, but she is unable to do so. After a certain incident she also loses her eyesight and becomes dependent on Ajay. Frustrated Gayetridevi decides to ask Asha to leave the house, and arranges a second marriage for Ajay, an act which will change the lives of everyone in the house.

Cast

Awards

  • Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award - Asha Parekh[1]

Soundtrack

Chirag
Studio album by
Released
1969 (India)
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Label
Sa Re Ga Ma
ProducerMadan Mohan
Madan Mohan chronology
Ek Kali Muskai
(1968)
Chirag
(1969)
Dastak
(1970)

The soundtrack of the film contains 7 songs. The music for all the songs were composed by Madan Mohan and the lyrics were penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri. Raj Khosla wanted Majrooh to use the line from faiz's poetry for the song "Teri Aankhon Ke Siwa Duniya", for which permission was obtained.

# Title Singer(s) Duration
1 "Teri Aankhon Ke Siwa Duniya (Male)" Mohammed Rafi 04:13
2 "Chhai Barkha Bahar" Lata Mangeshkar 06:15
3 "Bhor Hote Kaga" Lata Mangeshkar 03:53
4 "Teri Aankhon Ke Siwa Duniya (Female)" Lata Mangeshkar 04:29
5 "Jab Dekh Liya" Mohammed Rafi 04:45
6 "More Bichhade Saathi" Lata Mangeshkar 05:19
7 "Chirag Dil Ka Jalao" Mohammed Rafi 04:22
gollark: https://osmarks.tk/lorem
gollark: And you can only access some of them with keyboard shortcuts, voice commands, the web API (which is automatically exposed directly to the internet), the companion USB control device, by hovering over random areas for a few seconds, by emailing customer support, or for one of them by closing and reopening the program 10 times within 20 seconds.
gollark: There are actually some controls which hide some controls, add new ones, randomly change existing ones, shuffle them all around, that sort of thing.
gollark: It's not like I make mine easy. The buttons are all unlabelled.
gollark: My software has sub-toolbars to help navigate the "omega toolbar".

References

  1. "Awards for Chirag". IMDb. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.