Jheel Ke Us Paar Explained

Jheel Ke Us Paar
Director:Bhappi Sonie
Producer:Bhappi Sonie
Starring:Dharmendra
Mumtaz
Yogeeta Bali
Pran
Music:Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography:Jal Mistry
Editing:M. S. Shinde
Studio:R.K. Studios
Distributor:Bhappi Sonie Productions
Worldwide Entertainment Group
Country:India
Language:Hindi

Jheel Ke Us Paar (English: On the other side of the lake) is a 1973 Hindi film produced and directed by Bhappi Sonie. It is based on a novel by Gulshan Nanda, and stars Dharmendra, Mumtaz, Prem Chopra, Pran, Yogeeta Bali, Ranjeet and Shatrughan Sinha. The film's music is by R. D. Burman. Jal Mistry won the Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award.[1]

Cast

Plot

Neelu (Mumtaz) is a blind girl in a village. Sameer Rai (Dharmendra), an artist, spots her and wants to give back her eyesight as she lost her eyesight in an accident when she got bumped of by his father in her childhood. Prem Chopra is complexly portrayed, he plays Pratap, step-brother of Sameer. Sameer's mother wants him to marry Jugnu (Yogeeta Bali) but he has fallen in love with the blind girl. Jugnu and Sameer's mother persuade Neelu to play blind even when she gets back her eyesight to dissuade Sameer to marry a down trodden village girl. They bring along a false husband of Neelu who carries her off into the clutches of Pratap the illegitimate half brother of Sameer. His love interest betrays him and he gets killed. His girlfriend and her dead husband who is actually alive and playing possum to get insurance money try to kill Neelu as she has witnessed Pratap's murder. Everything gets resolved in the final climax based on a novel of the same name. The film has many twists and turns.

Soundtrack

All songs were written by Anand Bakshi.

Song Singer
"Jheel Ke Us Paar"Lata Mangeshkar
"Keh Rahe Hain Yeh Aansoo"Lata Mangeshkar
"Babul Tere Bagan Di Main Bulbul"Lata Mangeshkar
"Do Ghunt Mujhe Bhi Pila De"Lata Mangeshkar
"Hay, Bichhua Das Gayo Re"Asha Bhosle
"Kya Nazaren, Kya Sitaren"Kishore Kumar

Notes and References

  1. http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf 1st Filmfare Awards 1953