Kala Bazaar (1960)
Director: Vijay Anand; Writer: Vijay Anand; Producer: Dev Anand; Cinematographer: V. Ratra; Editor: Dharam Vir; Cast: Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Nanda, Leela Chitnis, Vijay Anand, Kishore Sahu
Duration: 02:30:54; Aspect Ratio: 1.280:1; Hue: 108.522; Saturation: 0.000; Lightness: 0.313; Volume: 0.236; Cuts per Minute: 12.557; Words per Minute: 48.657
Summary: Hero Raghuvir (D. Anand) becomes Bombay’s top black marketeer in film tickets and falls in love with Alka (Rehman) who shuns ‘black’ money. The hero reforms and starts a ‘white market’ [Safed Bazar] with his now legitimate gang of touts. Vijay Anand’s characteristic use of realism as a counterweight to the release of fantasy is exemplified in the visual and sound montage that opens the film and in the remarkably picturised Suraj ke jaisi golayi, chanda se thandak bhi payi set in top-angle camera among sleeping pavement-dwellers. Dev Anand may have had this strategy in mind when he declared that films should be ‘brought as close as possible to the reading of a newspaper’. The film includes several classic
songs, e.g.
Na main dhan chahun (sung by Geeta Dutt and Sudha Malhotra) and
Khoya khoya chand (sung by Mohammed Rafi).
censor certificate
black ticket
Bombay arguments
Premiere scene at Liberty Cinema
Singer: Mohammad Rafi
Song: Suraj ke jaisi golaai...
Teri dhoom har kahin
सूरज के जैसी गोलाई
Singer: Geeta Dutt
Singer: Sudha Malhotra
Song: Naa mai dhan chaahoon
न मैं धन चाहूँ, न रतन चाहूँ
cinema ticket
Song: Apni toh har aah ek toofan hai
अपनी तो हर आह इक तूफ़ान है
Singer: Mohmmad Rafi
Singer: Asha Bhosle
Singer: Manna Dey
Song: Sanjh dhali dil ki lagi
साँझ ढली दिल की लगी थक चली पुकार के
Singer: Mohammad Rafi
Song: Khoya khoya chand
खोया-खोया चांद, खुला आसमां
Singer: Asha Bhosle
Song: Sambhaalo sambhaalo apna dil
Singer: Geeta Dutt
Singer: Mohammad Rafi
Song: Rimjhim ke taraane leke
रिम झिम के तराने लेके आयी बरसात
Singer: Asha Bhosle
Song: Sach hue sapne tere
सच हुए सपने तेरे झूम ले ओ मन मेरे
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