Tere Ghar Ke Saamne (1963)
Director: Vijay Anand; Writer: Vijay Anand; Producer: Dev Anand; Cinematographer: V. Ratra; Editor: Babu Sheikh; Cast: Dev Anand, Nutan, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Om Prakash, Praveen Choudhury, Zareen, Rashid Khan, Rajendranath
Duration: 02:06:23; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Lightness: 0.276; Volume: 0.226; Cuts per Minute: 8.806; Words per Minute: 72.560
Summary: After Paying Guest (1957), this is the best- known Dev Anand-Nutan vehicle. Two feuding millionaires, Seth Karamchand (Chattopadhyay) and Lala Jagannath (Prakash), want to build their houses in front of each other. Jagannath’s son, the architect Rakesh Kumar (D. Anand), is commissioned to construct both houses. In addition, he falls in love with Karamchand’s daughter Sulekha (Nutan). A frothy musical comedy with some classic hits such as Dil ka bhanwar kare pukar (sung by Mohammed Rafi), Yeh tanhaai hai re hai (sung by Lata Mangeshkar) and bravura song picturisations including the Dil ka bhanwara number on the steps of the Qutub Minar in Delhi, and the title song, performed by Rafi and Mangeshkar, in which an imagined Nutan appears in miniature in Anand’s whisky glass as they sing the duet.
Minimal Bollywood Art for Tere Ghar Ke Saamne
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Flute (bansuri)
This scene indicates the presence of the flute. The tune being played is
Man dole, mera tan dole (
Nagin, 1954, sung by
Lata Mangeshkar).
The presence of the film song of another film is part of the long history of intertextuality that the Hindi film has participated in. It also draws attention to the circuits of the movement of the Hindi film song. The circuits of the movement of the song extend beyond the radio, gramophone records, the cinema and the song booklet to musical instruments being played by professionals and amateurs.
Sample this advertisement for an instance of how the flute functioned outside of the film screen but was routed back in via the representation. "Hoshiyar karigaron ki bani hui pital ki vilayati pipe chamakdar polish tuned ki hui ucch
shreni ki surili bansuri jiske 2 tukre karke jeb main rakh sakte hain
(A "foreign-made‟ brass pipe flute made by clever workers with shining polish, which is
tuned, of the highest quality, and can be folded into two parts and put inside your pocket)." This advertisement and several others like it were part of the AIR in-house Hindi journal called Sarang and other Hindi-language magazines. Particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, this was a popular mode for the song to circulate. Other similar advertisements might specify the importance of the musical instrument especially for the playing of film songs and/or becoming a musician who would/could eventually become a film musician or even music director.
In this particular clip, the player of the flute is an amateur on-screen (he is an architect's assistant). It is unclear which musician is responsible for the playing of the song. The scene opens with his introduction as Mr Madan Gopal Bansiwala or Bansuriwala. His name is elaborated through the playing of the flute. He turns toward the camera, facing it in mid-shot, playing the flute. The diegetic sounds of the flute continue into the next frame, with the camera cutting to a close-up of Nutan's face, enunciating "joker" disgustingly.
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Singer: Mohammad Rafi
Song: Dil ka bhanwar kare pukar
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