Gumnaam (1965)
Director: Raja Nawathe; Writer: Dhruva Chatterjee, Agatha Christie, Charandas Shokh; Producer: M.A. Madhu, N.N. Sippy; Cinematographer: K.H. Kapadia; Editor: D.N. Pai; Cast: Nanda, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Helen, Mehmood, Dhumal, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaya, Baba Benjamin, Hiralal, Bazid Khan, Ratna
Duration: 02:30:31; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 11.765; Saturation: 0.117; Lightness: 0.214; Volume: 0.247; Cuts per Minute: 10.138
Summary: At a night club 7 seven people win a lucky draw where the get an holiday package.The plane they are traveling develops a snag and makes emergency landing in the jungle.The plane dumps luggage of all the members including a co pilot and flies back leaving everyone stranded in the jungle.While trying to make way out of the jungle they hear a female singing mysteriously .The members follow the voice and reach a mansion where the butler welcomes them saying he was waiting fro them.He hands over a letter to them which says that they were all part of a crime and one by one will be killed.
Club Song of the 1950s
JAAN PEHCHAAN HO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTz3JN_NWkA prime example of how a club song is attached to the film with no real relevance. In this case, the club is the place where a lucky draw is conducted and the winners get to go on a holiday, where they are murdered one by one.
The singer is Herman Benjamin, who was one of the best known choreographers of western songs.
The song is set in the garish Princes Club. The name is spelt out in lights outside. The door slowly opens and we see a group of masked men in black trousers and jackets, with white ruffled shirts, move towards a girl in a gold lamé dress with a coif reminiscent of the 1960s.
She too is masked. There is frenetic drum playing and the dancers begin swaying to the beat, now picked up by the guitar and quickly followed by a brass ensemble—trumpets, saxophones and trombones. The jerky movements are part twist and part jitterbug, but mashed up in a way that only an Indian film choreographer can conjure up. Soon the camera moves towards the singer, who is clad in a sharp white suit with drainpipe pants, a black shirt and white tie. Hair slicked back, a pencil moustache and easy limb movements, he is the perfect lounge lizard.
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Khayaalon mein (hum kaale hain toh kya hua...)
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