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Parvarish (1958 film)

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Parvarish
Directed byS. Banerjee
Written bySagar Usmani
S. M. Abbas
Produced byMahipatray Shah
StarringRaj Kapoor
Mala Sinha
Mehmood
CinematographyC. S. Puttu
Edited byRamchandra Mahadik
Music byDattaram
Production
company
Roopkala Pictures
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Parvarish (transl. Upbringing) is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language film starring Raj Kapoor, Mala Sinha and Mehmood.[1] It was later adapted into the Tamil play Petral Thaan Pillaiya, which in turn was adapted into the Tamil film Paar Magaley Paar (1963).[2]

Plot

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After a hospital accident, a wealthy man is compelled to adopt a prostitute's son. After the incident, Thakur Jaswant takes both the infants with him. They wait for the guardian of the other child. As they are not able to make out which child is whose.

After some days, a man named Banke Bihari comes to meet Jaswant. He tells him, that the other child, who is the son of a prostitute, is his nephew and the prostitute was his sister. The lady left this world after giving birth to her son in that fire accident. So, he wants to take the other child with him. But he is also unable to identify which child is his nephew. Jaswant then brings up both the children as his own. This things insults him in the society as he has adopted a prostitute's son. His all friends and partners refuse to marry their daughters to any of the Jaswant's son. But his friends promises to marry his daughter to Jaswant's son.

As the time passes 3 of the children grow up. Things take a turn when both the boys want to marry a same girl

Cast

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Soundtrack

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Song Singer
"Aansoobhari Hai" Mukesh
"Looti Zindagi" Lata Mangeshkar
"Mastibhara Hai Sama" Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey
"Beliya Beliya Beliya Beliya" Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey
"Mama, O Mama, O Mama Mama Mama" Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey
"Jane Kaisa Jadu Kiya Re Bedardi Balam" Asha Bhosle, Sudha Malhotra
"Jhoome Re, Jhoome Re" Asha Bhosle

References

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  1. ^ Singh, Jai Arjun (8 September 2018). "Two princes or two paupers? How Parvarish dealt with fluid identities in 1950s". The Hindu. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  2. ^ Ramachandran, T. M. (10 August 1963). "Acting Redeems Paar Magaley Paar". Sport and Pastime. Vol. 17. p. 42. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
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