Oonche Log (1965 film)

Oonche Log (transl. High Society People) is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Phani Majumdar. It is based on the play Major Chandrakanth, by K. Balachander.[1] The main character roles of this film were played by Ashok Kumar, Raaj Kumar and Feroz Khan.[2] Its lyrics were composed by Majrooh Sultanpuri and the music was given by Chitragupta.

Oonche Log
Poster
Directed byPhani Majumdar
Produced bySathyam-Nanjundan
Screenplay byPhani Majumdar
Based onMajor Chandrakanth
by K. Balachander
StarringAshok Kumar
Raaj Kumar
Feroz Khan
Kanhaiya Lal
Deven Verma
Tarun Bose
Kumud Tripathi
Music byChitragupta
CinematographyKamal Ghosh
Edited byM.V. Rajan
Production
company
Chitrakala Studio
Release date
  • 19 August 1965 (1965-08-19) (India)
Running time
144 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

The film was shot at Vauhini Studios, Chennai and was also noted as the first big hit of newcomer Feroz Khan, who was noted for his sensitive performance against veterans such as Raaj Kumar and Ashok Kumar.[3] At the 13th National Film Awards it won the award for Second Best Feature Film in Hindi [4][5]

Cast
  • Ashok Kumar as Major Chandrakant
  • Raaj Kumar as Inspector Shrikant
  • Feroz Khan as Rajnikant 'Rajjo'
  • Kanhaiyalal as Gunichand Masterjee
  • Tarun Bose as Mohan Prabhu (Bimla's Brother)
  • Kumud Tripathi as Jumman
  • Radheshyam
  • K. R. Vijaya as Bimla Prabhu(Introducing)
  • Deven Varma

Soundtrack

The film's music was created by Chitragupta with lyrics written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

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References
  1. Narayan, Hari (15 November 2016). "KB's continuum". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. Ranjan Das Gupta (1 May 2009). "Oonche Log (1965)". The Hindu.
  3. Feroz Khan lived life king size The Times of India. 27 April 2009.
  4. "13th National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  5. "13th National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals.

PLOT

Major Chandrakant (Ashok Kumar) gets blind during warfare has two sons Inspector Shreekant(Raaj Kumar) and Rajnikant (Feroz Khan) alongwith a faithful servant Juman miyan(Kumud Tripati).

Major Chandrakant promises his neighbour Gunichand Masterjee to get his daughter Pallavi married to Rajnikant. But he falls in love with Bimla(K R Vijaya) at Madras during Cadet training who gets pregnant, but he is not ready to accept her, due to fear of telling the truth to his father. Rajnikant returns to Madras on receiving a telegram from Bimla, and asks her to abort the child and returns back but Bimla commits suicide and her brother Mohan(Tarun Bose) vows to avenge his sisters death follows him in the train and kills Rajnikant is now on the run from the police and takes refuge in the Majors house who confesses that he is not a murderer but actually is a professor, and had killed a person in rage because he had deceived his sister .The Major keeps him away from his Inspector son and asks him to stay for the night in his attic.The Major receives a telegram about Rajnikant s death and finds that he is the same murderer of his son and is ashamed that his son had done such a misdeed.

Inspector Shreekant returns back home to be apprehended by Mohan with a pistol but is overpowered by Shreekant and arrests Major Chandrakant for abetting a killer.

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