Mela Film Hindi Movie Full Hd

[Theo Pontbriand]

Themusical film, set in a village milieu, was a tragic love story involving Manju and Mohan. Manju is married off to a seventy-year-old man, who declares that he didn't realise he was being married to someone so young. After the husband's death, the lovers meet and Manju dies accidentally. Mohan is convicted for her murder, and after spending twenty years in jail, he too falls off the cliff and dies when he follows Manju's spirit.

Manju (Nargis) lives in the village with her father, a school teacher, and step-mother. Mohan (Dilip Kumar) and Manju are friends since childhood. The friendship develops into love and they are both excited about their wedding. Mohan decides to go into town to buy jewelry for the marriage. On the way he is robbed and beaten unconscious, landing him in the hospital.

Mehkoo (Jeevan), is a no-good man, retired from the army, who lusts after one of the young village girls. He is influential with Manju's stepmother and, with her by his side, calls the village panchayat. Here, he denounces Mohan as a cad who has run away with a girl, telling them that he won't return for the marriage. Since the wedding day has been fixed, the panchayat agrees with Mehkoo that Manju should get married on the day decided. It finds a supposedly suitable groom for Manju, but he turns out to be a seventy-year-old, sickly man. When he enters the wedding chamber, he agrees that Manju is too young to be his bride. Remorseful, he asks for forgiveness, but pleads with her to care of his children. Manju takes on the role of the old man's wife. The man dies, with Manju now left a young widow in charge of the children.

One night in stormy weather, she goes out to meet Mohan, and dies when she falls off a cliff. Mehkoo and other villagers arrive to convict Mohan of murdering Manju. Mohan says nothing in his defense and is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. On release from jail, Mohan goes to the same place where Manju had died. He sees her spirit, who beckons him to follow her. As he does, he falls off the cliff edge and dies.

Dilip Kumar was reportedly unwilling to act in Mela until he reached the studios and heard the opening lines of the song "Mera dil todnewaale", sung by Mukesh and Shamshad Begum. Kumar felt the story line was weak, in his words "absence of meat", and asked the screenwriters to accommodate changes in the script, which they did. As Kumar reports in his autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow, "We had some healthy brainstorming sessions, which helped us to add depth and intensity to the story besides [as well as] logic". He felt the changes were good, both for him and the cast overall.[5]

The film came in for harsh criticism from the editor of Filmindia, Baburao Patel. In the December 1948 issue of the cine-magazine, he compared the "formula" used for the story as a "rehash of Rattan" (1944). His review elaborated a Parsi (Wadia) and Muslim (Bazidpuri) "conspiracy" to "run down the Hindus" by making a "stupid and reactionary" film like Mela. Calling the film a "slander on Hindus" and anti-social, he claimed it to be a film encouraging suicide, a criminal offense (section 309 of the Indian Penal Code).[6] The army was slandered because the film made Mekhoo, an ex-army man, "the most objectionable character in the picture".[7] He found "unbelievable" features in the story, especially the quick arrangement for Manju's wedding without looking for Mohan, and that a seventy-year-old widower remarrying wouldn't know the age of the woman he's going to marry.

Patel commended the film for its "pleasant photography". Patel praised lead-female Nargis, but in her role of mother found her "unconvincing" and "synthetic". Dilip Kumar as the hero "does his job well". For Jeevan, who played Mehkoo: "Jeevan plays Mehkoo and succeeds in creating disgust and revulsion, the two main aspects of his role". Later, Patel lays on more anti-Parsi rhetoric when comparing Mehkoo's sexual assault of a girl, Basanti, to "those of some of the toddy-tight [drunk] Parsis on vacation".[3]

The film was released on 8 October 1948 at Excelsior cinema, Bombay. The music of the film was a main part in the commercial success at the box office, with it being reportedly referred to as Naushad's "Golden jubilee (fifty weeks) Mela".[2] According to Meghnad Desai, a weak story was camouflaged by the "stunning melodies" in Mela and other films.[8]

Chiranjeevulu (1956), a Telugu language film, was a remake of Mela. In the Telugu version, the hero is turned blind, and the old man who marries Manju is changed to a young bachelor, Dr. Krishna. The film was made under the Vinoda Productions banner, produced by D. L. Narayana (Dronamvajhala Lakshmi Narayana) and directed by Vedantam Raghavayya. The dialogue writer and lyricist was Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry. The film starred N. T. Rama Rao, Jamuna, Gummadi, Peketi Sivaram, C.S.R. Anjaneyulu. For actress Jamuna, it was cited as her "career-best performance"; Peketi Sivaram played the negative role of Mehkoo, originally played by Jeevan. The film "was a box office grosser".[10]

Composer Naushad had Shamshad Begum singing some memorable songs, in the process getting the "best out of Shamshad" for this film. "Dharti Ko Aakash Pukaare" and "Taqdeer Bani Banke Bigdi" by Shamshad are both notable songs, reportedly showing her growth as a "serious singer".[11] The song "Dharti Ko Aakash Pukaare" was originally put in as a title song, but it became extremely popular, forcing the producers to have the full song added in the film.[12]

Another popular song was the bidai (farewell) number, "Gaaye Jaa Geet Milan Ke" (Sing Songs Of Meeting), sung by Mukesh, at the time of Manju's departure from home after marriage. It was used in the film to show Manju's feelings, her "secret sorrows" that "cannot be voiced but are palpable" through the medium of the song.[13] The song is sung by Mohan (Dilip Kumar) as he's racing home in his bullock cart to meet Manju (Nargis), whereas Manju is leaving for her husband's home.

Roopa Singh is the only sister of her soldier brother named Ram Singh who returns to her village in Chandanpur to arrange her marriage in the form of a carnival. However, Roopa's happiness is short-lived as the village is raided by a group of terrorists led by Gujjar Singh, who murders a visiting politician and is attracted to Roopa. As Gujjar attempts to escape with the terrified Roopa, Ram and Roopa's young friend Gopal com to her rescue only to be killed by Gujjar who threatens Roopa that she will only be his mistress without the love of a brother or lover. Enraged and heartbroken, Roopa attempts to commit suicide by jumping into a waterfall, but she survives and upon vowing to confront and destroy Gujjar, steals the clothes of a theatre actor named Kishan, who works with his best friend Shankar.

While finding his clothes, Kishan meets Roopa and falls in love with her, where he also decides to make Roopa as the heroine of their dance show. With no option, Roopa travels with them and tries to escape, but returns when chased by the gang and a drunken cop named Surendra Pratap Singh, who was her rejected fiance. Roopa is saved by Shankar and Kishan, where she feigns love for Kishan and the two men agree to help her return to Chandanpur. Learning that Kishan is going to marry her, Roopa feels guilty over her betrayal and reveals her past. Shankar becomes her brother while Kishan is heartbroken and leaves in disgust.

Roopa and Shankar return to Chandanpur, where Shankar mobilises the village and attempts to set a trap for Gujjar, who has learnt of Roopa's survival and terrorizes the village to find out her whereabouts. The trap backfires horribly until Kishan returns with a suspended cop named Pakkad Singh. The trap is re-set with another carnival and the terrorists are attack as planned. Roopa is kidnapped and Kishan and Shankar while giving chase are kidnapped taken to Gujjar's hideout where they are forced to fight him and his men. With the arrival of Chandanpur's villagers, Gujjar's men are finished while Kishan kills Gujjar with Shankar and Roopa's help. While driving along with Kishan and Roopa one day, Shankar meets Champakali where Kishan and Roopa watch them.

Kajol was initially offered the female lead in the film. However, she refused, as she was concerned about Aamir Khan's habit of doing multiple takes.[3] The role ultimately went to Twinkle Khanna.[4] Darshan told in an interview that the 1971 film Caravan was an inspiration for Mela.[5]

Aamir Khan, approached and persuaded A. R. Rahman to do compose music for the film, but due to time constraints, Rahman declined the offer.[7] The music was then composed by 4 composers, with Anu Malik, Rajesh Roshan, and Lesle Lewis composing the songs and Surinder Sodhi composing the film score.

Sharmila Taliculam of Rediff called Aamir Khan as the "saving grace" of the film and the "only one who does complete justice to his role". She found the film a mix of The Seven Samurai, Caravan and Sholay and also praised Tinu Verma's performance labeling his portrayal of the antagonist as "convincingly menancing". She noted that dubbing Khanna's voice was a "gamble that ... misfired" and "[added] unnecessary drama and aggression to her role".[9] Sify gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Mela is not the best film to start the millennium with, but if you are an Aamir Khan fan you can tolerate it, but for his sakealone."[10]

The hand-painted poster shows the leads of the film against the backdrop of a fair and its happenings. In the frame of the poster, there are bust length paintings of the characters Manju (left), played by Nargis and Mohan (right), played by Dilip Kumar, in the bottom half of the poster. The background image shows a fair, with elements like the big wheel, merry-go-round and rope walking. Towards the top left corner area of the poster, the film credits are written from top to bottom in the following manner. First comes 'WADIA FILMS LTD. Presents', next line; 'NARGIS. DILIP KUMAR', next line; 'MELA', next line; 'DIRECTION S.U. SUNNY', next line; 'MUSIC NAUSHAD'. To the right of this composition of text is the film title in Devanagari. Below the film title, along an illustration of musical notes swaying from the characters' images to the film title, the lyrics of a song from the film are written in Devanagari as 'Yah Zindagi Ke Mele Duniya Me Kam Na Honge Afsos Hum Na Honge' (check translation). On the bottom border of the poster towards the right, the printer's credits are written as 'PRINTED BY:- ADVANCE LITHOGRAPHERS'. In the bottom right corner of the poster, the artist's name is written as 'Balkrishna' (in Devanagari).

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