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MUKTI in
Hindi-1937
-A Tale of Broken Heart
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Certified for release by
Bengal Board of
Censors.
Hindi version of Mukti
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Producer : New
Theatres
Direction & Screenplay :
P.C.Barua |
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Story :
P.C.Barua // Sajanikanta Das // Phani Majumdar |
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Camera :
Bimal Roy // Robbie Dhar
Sound :
Atul Chatterjee |
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Editing
:
Kali Raha
Supervision :
P.N.Roy |
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Production Assistants :
Souren Sen // Pulin Ghosh //Anath Maitra // Prakash Ghosh |
Sound :
Atul Chatterjee // Mani Bose
Laboratory :
Subodh
Ganguly |
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Music :
Pankaj Kumar Mallick
Assited By :Asfaq
Hossein // Tarak Dey |
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Dialogue
:
Pandit Aagar Hossein Shore |
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Lyrics :
Pandit Asgar Hussein Shor // Arzoo Lucknowi // Prem |
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Assistant Directors :
Phani Majumdar // Bibhuti Chakraborty // SoumenMukherjee |
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Cast :
P.C.Barua
.. Prashant |
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Pankaj Mallick
... Singer |
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Menoka
.. Jharna |
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Nawab
Pahari |
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Jagdish Shethy
Mr Mallick |
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Bikram Kapoor
Bipul |
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Debabala
.. Bipuls mother |
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Kalyani // Nand Kishor // Prafulla Roy // Lakshmi |
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Giridhari Vaid // Ahi Sanyal // Brajabashi // Dhumi Khan |
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Pannalal Srivastava // Nawab Khan // Saradeb Roy |
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K.N. SINGH (not credited) |
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KANAN
...
Chitra |
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Songs of KANAN
:
1) Megaphone-JNG 1018-NA JAANE KYA HAI |
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DIL KA RAZ, SOJ HAI YEH YA SAAZ-OMC 8351 and |
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SAWARIAN MAN BHAYA RE-OMC 8173 |
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2) Megaphone-JNG
1041-KAISA UJRA CHAMAN KHUSHI |
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KA KAISA NASEEBA PHOOT GAYA |
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The
music of the
MUKTI
was composed by Pankaj Kumar Mallick. Why |
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MEGAPHONE brought
KANANS
MUKTI songs with wrong credits is a mystery. |
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The
corrected credits however are given in the latest
MEGAPHONE CDs
of |
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KANAN.
MUKTI (both versions) were the first films for which New theatres gave |
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Pankaj a
separate unit. It was P.C. Barua who explained to Pankaj Kumar Mallick |
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that
several of his earlier hits of N.T. had music composed by Mallick but all
the |
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credit
went to the senior Raichand Boral. One
glaring example
is a very popular |
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Bengali
song PHIRE CHALO PHIRE CHALO APANA GHARE ( Lyric : Sourindra |
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Mohan
Mukhopadhyay & tune composed by Pankaj Kumar Mallick). This song |
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was a
major attraction of the Bengali stage play SWAMBARA and Rajlakshmi |
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Devi
(actress / singer of Bengal-read
her mini-bio in imdb.com)
used to sing in |
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the play
under Pankajs training. Rajlakshmi Devis song was never published as |
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a
record. Director Debaki Kumar Bose liked the song so much that he wanted to |
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have it
placed towards the end of his film as it perfectly met the needs of the |
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situation. Raichand Boral agreed and used the song in Krishna Chandra Deys |
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voice.
The job was done and the Krishna Chandra Dey version is remembered |
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even
today and several remakes have been made. However, Pankaj Mallicks |
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name did
not feature in the title card or booklet of
CHANDIDAS (1932)
and |
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Pankaj
did not mind. Creation was his work and he himself never bothered for |
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publicity. This paragraph is added not to belittle anyone
. Only to reveal
the |
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truth
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I am
greatly indebted to
Dr.M.L Kapur,
without whose help reconstruction of this |
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page
with corrections would not have been possible. |
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