Damad - Master Bhagwan, Krishna Kumari

Damad, 1951
Director: Brij Rani
Music: Shamoo, Prof. Ram Punjwani, Indirvan Bhatt
Lyrics: Bahar Ajmeri
Playback: Ishu, Ram Panjwani, Sulochana Kadam, Vishni Lal, Khan Mastana,
Cast: Master Bhagwan, Krishna Kumari, Yashodra Katju, Pratima Devi, Cuckoo, Rukhsana, Shamu, A. Shah

Tape provided by Surjit Singh. Thanks! No translation available.

From https://atulmovies.wordpress.com/2012... and written by Arunkumar Deshmukh:

DAMAD-1951 was a film which came after Bhagwan’s ALBELA. The tremendous success of ALBELA, made the financers,producers and directors line up Bhagwan’s doorstep with project proposals. The success of Albela had also gone to the head of Bhagwan dada, without realisng the contribution of Geeta Bali and C.Ramchandra’s music to its success. He thought that it was due to him and he went on signing film after films in that period. As his new films started failing, the incomplete films were abandoned and Albela became his swan song, because from here his slide down started slowly, though some more films like for example Bhagam Bhag etc. were hits - again due to music and Kishore kumar.

The producer N.T.Madnaney never ever tried to produce any more films after Damad - which was not at all successful on the Box Office. The screenplay and direction was by Brij Rani.There were 3 composers,Shamoo who had given music to Begunah - 1949 with Haribhai, Ram Panjwani-who was a novice and Indravadan Bhatt who had given music to 10 films in the late 40s. The story was more or less same as Albela - a good for nothing fellow sings well and makes a fortune is the one-line story of this film. Chamak (Bhagwan) is too simple a person, who is a teacher in a school, where even his students make fun of him. He gets married to a rich man’s daughter - Geeta (Krishna Kumari). Chamak loses his job and his father-in-law takes him to his house in a bigger town. Chamak is impressed with all the wealthy living and eats like a hog and sleeps like a dog every day. Honored initially as the son-in-law of the house, slowly he becomes despised, insulted and treated shabbily by the in-laws for doing nothing. One day when Chamak is singing alone, the manager of the local theater hears him, is impressed and offers him job of a singer. Chamak accepts it and in no time becomes a famous singer and tours All India. Seeing that he is famous, his in-laws start pampering him. Now Chamak has become clever. He teaches a lesson to his in-laws and finally they realize their folly and all is well that ends well.

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