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Asif

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Mar 10, 2011, 9:32:39 PM3/10/11
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Today I recalled this old favorite Mukesh-Lata duet from Chahat (1972)
and immediately looked it up on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-fLzlUOIa0

But I was surprised to find it in black-n-white. A very young and
beautiful Mumtaz and an equally young and energetic Jeetendra sing the
song while another youthful pair of Biswajeet and Mala Sinha look on.
From their looks the song seems to have been shot sometime around
1965-66 when both Jeetu and Mumtaz were rather newcomers. However,
film was certified and/or released in 1972.

Does anyone know more about this film and song? Was the film in the
making for years, or shelved then and then completed in a hurry and
released in 1972? Or just this song and a few other scenes are in B/W
and the rest of the film is in color? From the look of it, the song
also suggests that Chahat was probably the first film where Jeetu and
Mumtaz were paired much earlier than Boond Jo Ban Gayi Moti (1968).

surjit singh

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Mar 11, 2011, 12:02:57 AM3/11/11
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MD Laxmi-Pyare, can't be that old.

Sukesh

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Mar 11, 2011, 1:34:48 AM3/11/11
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Chahat 1971.

http://ibosnetwork.com/asp/filmbodetails.asp?id=Chahat

The director's name is mispelt has Homi Bhattacharya, instead of Moni.

A) DVD possibly available here

http://www.webmallindia.com/buy_dvd_online-movie-CHAHAT-p-6193.html

http://www.induna.com/1000008794-productdetails/

B) Apparently a B/W film, must have had a delayed release, so probably sank without a trace.

More videos

1) Chahat - Humein Tumse Tumhe Humse Shikaayat - Mohd.Rafi & Asha Bhonsle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AomuWSwL0_0

2) Chahat - Mere Dil Ki Sun Le Kahani - Mohd.Rafi & Lata Mangeshkar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X71Ie4yvB9I

Regards
Sukesh

Gurcharan Sandhu

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Mar 11, 2011, 8:44:26 AM3/11/11
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On Mar 10, 6:32 pm, Asif <alvi.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

The DVD has been released by T-Series and the film is B/W.

Gurcharan

Asif

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Mar 11, 2011, 11:02:09 AM3/11/11
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Well, Laxmi-Pyare composed music in several B/W films in the mid-'60s,
and Chahat could be one of them. I just checked HFGK and it lists
Chahat as certified on 24 Sep 1971. Now look at the star cast
mentioned by HFGK (besides the two lead pair): Achala Sachdev, Asit
Sen, Mridula, Sundar, Roopesh Kumar, M.A. Lateef, Jalani, Altaf,
Shahid, Master Javed, Baby Yasmin, Madhumati, and Rajshree T.

Except Sachdev, Sen, Sundar, and Roopesh Kumar, all others were hardly
seen beyond 1967-68 although I only remember the face of Madhumati. B/
W films with big stars were over around 1967 with Baharon Ke Sapne
(Asha Parekh), Raat Aur Din (Nargis, Pradeep Kumar), and Milan Ki Raat
(Sharmila Tagore). If a producer could afford to sign such big stars
as Mala Sinha and Biswajeet in 1965-67, then he would not have made a
B/W film with them. Mala Sinha and Biswajeet did one more B/W film
with LP as music directors - Aasra (1966). Jeetendra became a star
with Farz (1967) and would have played a second fiddle to Biswajeet
only in films released before or around 1967.

These facts make me believe that Chahat was started in 1965-66.

By the way, the other two Chahat songs, links to which Sukesh Sahab
posted on another post, are nice. I recall having listened to them a
lot in those radio-listening days. The song 'hamen tumse tumhen
hamse' is a straight lift from another old favorite, and much
superior, 'mujhe tum mil gaye hamdam' (Love In Tokyo, 1966).

surjit singh

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Mar 11, 2011, 5:31:06 PM3/11/11
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I agree, probably did start earlier.

abhijits...@gmail.com

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Jul 21, 2019, 7:01:43 AM7/21/19
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the film chahat 1971 release date the film would have released around 1964-65 but it may have been normal or average not hit or superhit film during the first time release in the year 1964-65 as ad jeetendra and mumtaj was newcomer biswajeet just before jeetendra and mala sinha was established actress in bollywood then after few years jeetendra gave many hit films like farz 1966 jeene ki rah 1967 humjiooli 1969 carvaan 1970 so the prooducer of the film chahat 1971 might have siezed the oppurtunity and released again the gilm chahat 1971 in 1971 thinking that film might be blockbuster hit but it was not so the film madenormal and average business as due to re release of the film in the year 1971 the original date of this film chahat 1971 which released around 1964-65 the date was changed to 1971 which isabsolutely wrong in 1971 this film got re released so this is total controversy of the release date the wrong date is still appearing in the records of hinfi film industry this need to be changed
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