Anarkali (1953)
Director: Nandlal Jaswantlal; Writer: Ramesh Saigal, Nasir Hussain; Producer: Filmistan; Cinematographer: Marshall Braganza; Editor: Babu Lavande; Cast: Bina Rai, Pradeep Kumar, Mubarak, S.L. Puri, Sulochana (Ruby Myers), Kuldeep Kaur, Manmohan Krishna, Nurjehan
Duration: 02:28:53; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 151.487; Saturation: 0.081; Lightness: 0.245; Volume: 0.324; Cuts per Minute: 5.695; Words per Minute: 56.651
Summary: Frequently filmed Mughal romance in which Prince Salim (P. Kumar) falls in love with the common Anarkali (Rai). In Imtiaz Ali Taj’s play of 1922 she was a slave girl (cf. Loves of a Mughal Prince, 1928); in Mughal-e-Azam, 1960, she is a court attendant. Director Jaswantlal alludes to his precursors by casting Sulochana, who played Anarkali in R.S. Choudhury’s famous 1928 version, as the hero’s mother. The Filmistan production does not acknowledge the play and claims to be a direct, unmediated treatment of the Mughal legend with story and script credited to the directors Hussain (Tumsa Nahin Dekha, 1957) and R. Saigal (Railway Platform, 1955). Constructed as a fantasy flashback, Jaswantlal opens the film with a big close-up of Rai’s lips before going on to the customary establishing shots that set the scene. Sustaining his emphatic use of close-ups throughout, the film intercuts emotional episodes with elaborate war scenes used like fillers in between dramatic sequences. On occasion, the visual flair detected by reviewers of Jaswantlal’s work for the Imperial Studio emerges in this Filmistan product: the slow crane movement when Akbar (Mubarak) is told of his son’s secession threat and the abrupt dimming of the lights when he is confronted by his brother-in- law, the Rajput Raja Man Singh (Puri). The music, which by convention dominates this genre, includes hits like Mangeshkar’s Yeh zindagi usi ki hai.
censor certificate
Song: Aye baad-e-saba aahista chal
salim
Anarkali
The Ghosts of Anarkali
Her tomb lies in Lahore, a major tourist attraction. On it are inscribed a couplet by the madly-in love Salim.
The first Anarkali was made in 1928 starring Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers. It was remade again as India's second talkie in 1931. Neither have survived. 25 years later in Jaswantlal's Anarkali, Sulochana plays Salim's mother, Queen Jodhabai.
There is no contemporary account of the Anarkali, the love of Salim's life. She did not exist. She finds no mention in the candid and autobiography of Salim, Tuzuk i Jehangiri, nor is there any mention of her in Abul Fazl's Akbarnama.
It was a play written in 1922 by Imtiaz Ali, that started it all. He took a local Lahore city legend which may have been a colonial construct to begin with, and wrote in in the style of another popular play Umrao Jaan. He clearly labelled his Anarkali, a "work of fiction."
From then on she took a life of many avatars.
這是伊姆提亞茲・阿里 (Imtiaz Ali) 於 1922 年創作的一部戲劇，從此開始了這一切。他清楚地將他的安娜卡利（Anarkali）一角貼上了「虛構人物」的標籤。從那時起，「她」展開了擁有許多化身的一生。
Song: Yeh zindagi ussi ki hai jo kissi ka ho gaya (1)
The afterlife of silent cinema
The Lahore Effect
Song: Aa jaan-e-wafa
The afterlife of silent cinema
Song: Aaja ab toh aaja
Song: Dua kar gham-e-dil, khuda se dua kar
Song: Jaag dard-e-ishq jaag
Song: Mohabbat aisi dhadkan hai
Song: Zindagi pyaar ki do chaar ghadi
Song: Zindagi pyaar ki do chaar ghadi hoti hai (contd)
Song: Mohabbat mein aaj kadam dagmagaaye, Zamaanaa yeh samjha ki hum peeke aaye
salim
Salim
The Ghosts of Anarkali
The first Anarkali was made in 1928 starring Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers. It was remade again as India's second talkie in 1931. Neither have survived. 25 years later in Jaswantlal's Anarkali, Sulochana plays Salim's mother, Queen Jodhabai.
There is no contemporary account of the Anarkali, the love of Salim's life. She did not exist. She finds no mention in the candid and autobiography of Salim, Tuzuk i Jehangiri, nor is there any mention of her in Abul Fazl's Akbarnama.
It was a play written in 1922 by Imtiaz Ali, that started it all. He took a local Lahore city legend which may have been a colonial construct to begin with, and wrote in in the style of another popular play Umrao Jaan. He clearly labelled his Anarkali, a "work of fiction."
From then on she took a life of many avatars.
這是伊姆提亞茲・阿里 (Imtiaz Ali) 於 1922 年創作的一部戲劇，從此開始了這一切。他清楚地將他的安娜卡利（Anarkali）一角貼上了「虛構人物」的標籤。從那時起，「她」展開了擁有許多化身的一生。
無論政權存在與否，
不管帝國存在與否……
撒利姆是否
成為皇帝...
你我將同生共死。
這是我堅定的決定。
這是叛逆！
- 不，這是愛的呼喚！
撒利姆，印度斯坦之王，萬歲...
－讓榮耀歸於他！
salim
The Ghosts of Anarkali
The first Anarkali was made in 1928 starring Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers. It was remade again as India's second talkie in 1931. Neither have survived. 25 years later in Jaswantlal's Anarkali, Sulochana plays Salim's mother, Queen Jodhabai.
There is no contemporary account of the Anarkali, the love of Salim's life. She did not exist. She finds no mention in the candid and autobiography of Salim, Tuzuk i Jehangiri, nor is there any mention of her in Abul Fazl's Akbarnama.
It was a play written in 1922 by Imtiaz Ali, that started it all. He took a local Lahore city legend which may have been a colonial construct to begin with, and wrote in in the style of another popular play Umrao Jaan. He clearly labelled his Anarkali, a "work of fiction."
From then on she took a life of many avatars.
這是伊姆提亞茲・阿里 (Imtiaz Ali) 於 1922 年創作的一部戲劇，從此開始了這一切。他清楚地將他的安娜卡利（Anarkali）一角貼上了「虛構人物」的標籤。從那時起，「她」展開了擁有許多化身的一生。
Akbar-Jodha
The Ghosts of Anarkali
The first Anarkali was made in 1928 starring Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers. It was remade again as India's second talkie in 1931. Neither have survived. 25 years later in Jaswantlal's Anarkali, Sulochana plays Salim's mother, Queen Jodhabai.
There is no contemporary account of the Anarkali, the love of Salim's life. She did not exist. She finds no mention in the candid and autobiography of Salim, Tuzuk i Jehangiri, nor is there any mention of her in Abul Fazl's Akbarnama.
It was a play written in 1922 by Imtiaz Ali, that started it all. He took a local Lahore city legend which may have been a colonial construct to begin with, and wrote in in the style of another popular play Umrao Jaan. He clearly labelled his Anarkali, a "work of fiction."
From then on she took a life of many avatars.
這是伊姆提亞茲・阿里 (Imtiaz Ali) 於 1922 年創作的一部戲劇，從此開始了這一切。他清楚地將他的安娜卡利（Anarkali）一角貼上了「虛構人物」的標籤。從那時起，「她」展開了擁有許多化身的一生。
即使是蒙兀兒帝國
被消滅了……
也救不了撒利姆。
這是不可能的！
和撒利姆一樣，
我們拉傑普特人也有權利。
撒利姆是一個
印度教－穆斯林合體的象徵！
Song: O aasmanwale shikwa hai zindagi ka
Song: Yeh zindagi ussi ki hai jo kissi ka ho gayaa
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