Mehbooba - 1976

MEHBOOBA

Star Cast :

• Super Star Rajesh Khanna...... Suraj/Prakash
• Hema Malini...... Ratna/Jhumri
• Prem Chopra...... Appa
• Asha Sachdev...... Rita Malhotra
• Meena T...... Gauri
• Asrani...... Sinha
• Manmohan Krishna...... Bandhey Ali Khan
• Sujit Kumar...... Doctor Vinod
• Yogita Bali...... Jamuna Singh (Guest Appearance)
• Birbal
• Harindranath Chattopadhyay...... Rita's Father, Uncle
• Chandra Shekhar...... Thakur Himmatsingh
• Nasir Husain...... Guruji
• Leela Mishra...... Jhumri's mom
• Madan Puri...... Sardar
• Master Alankar...... Bantu
• Raj Rani
• Uma Dutt
• Alankar...... Buntu

Other Film Crew's :

• Producer : Ashok,Mushir Riaz,Heera and Ibrahim
• Director : Shakti Samanta
• Choreography : Madhav Kishen,Aruna and Habiba Rehman
• Action : Shetty
• Art : Dilip Singh,Gappa Chakravarthy, Sachin and Tiwari
• Editors: Sudhir and Salil Malik
• Sound : Anwar and Kaushik
• Costume : Bhanu Athaiya and Jaya Chakravarty
• Genre : Action/Musical/Romance/Fantasy/Family Drama and Reincarnation 
• Color : Colour
• Release Date : January 01, 1976
• Language : Hindi
• Country : India

Summary :

A singer by profession, Suraj (Rajesh Khanna) gets stranded in resthouse in the coutnryside during a rainstorm. While there he experiences ununsual feelings, as if he has been there before. He feels himself transported to another time and era, to another birth, and drawn to a woman named Ratna (Hema Malini). He is unable to leave this experience behind him, and decides to find out what this means. He discovers that in his past life he was a Chief Singer in the emperor's court, his name was Prakash and he had fallen in love with a courtesan named Ratna, much to the chargin and anger of his family and the emperor's and his officials. They are tragically separated. He subsequently comes across a portrait of Ratna, and shortly after he meets a gypsy, Jhumri (also Hema Malini) who looks exactly like Ratna. Soon Jhumri is also able to recollect her past life, and her love for Prakash. This does not auger well with Rita Malhotra (Asha Sachdev) who loves Suraj, and Appa (Prem Chopra), the son of the leader of the gypsies (Madan Puri), who will not stop at anything to make Jhumri his wife. Appa steals the portrait, and instigates the gypsies against Suraj, so that he can marry Jhumri, and perhaps separate the two lovers again in this birth also.

Music Sound Track :

• Singers : Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar
• Lyricist : Anand Bakshi
• Music Director : R D Burman
• Music Assistants  : Basu Chakraborty, Maruti Rao and Basu Manohari

Songs :

S.No. Song Title   Singer (s)

1.  मेरे नैना सावन भादों
   
   
   • मेरे नैना सावन भादों  - Mere Naina Sawan Bhado
   • गायक - महबूबा  - Mehbooba
   • गायक - किशोर कुमार   
   • संगीत - आनंद बक्शी   
   
   (मेरे नैना सावन भादों
   फिर भी मेरा मन प्यासा ) -2
   
   ऐ दिल दीवाने, खेल है क्या जाने
   दर्द भरा ये, गीत कहाँ से
   इन होंठों पे आए, दूर कहीं ले जाए
   भूल गया क्या, भूल के भी है
   मुझको याद ज़रा सा, फिर भी ...
   
   बात पुरानी है, एक कहानी है
   अब सोचूँ तुम्हें, याद नहीं है
   अब सोचूँ नहीं भूले, वो सावन के झूले
   ऋतु आये ऋतु जाये देके
   झूठा एक दिलासा, फिर भी...
   
   बरसों बीत गए, हमको मिले बिछड़े
   बिजुरी बनकर, गगन पे चमके
   बीते समय की रेखा, मैं ने तुम को देखा
   मन संग आँख-मिचौली खेले
   आशा और निराशा, फिर भी...
   
   कलाकार  : राजेश खन्ना - हेमा मालिनी