Anari is a 16 January 1959 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Motilal and Lalita Pawar. The music was by Shankar Jaikishan and the lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra. This was among the few movies in which Lalita Pawar played a positive role and Motilal a role with shades of grey. The film was remade in Tamil as Pasamum Nesamum.[1]
Anari was released on 16 January 1959 and met with critical acclaim. Film critics had praised the screenplay and performances of lead actors in the film. Subsequently, it became the highest-grossing film of 1959 with Box Office India declaring it "Super Hit".
Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome, and intelligent young man. Working only as a sole trader painter, he is unable to earn a living, including paying rent to his kind-hearted and talkative landlady, Mrs. D'sa. One day, Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the owner, Mr. Ramnath. Ramnath admires Raj; satisfied with his honesty, he employs Raj to work in his office as a clerk. Raj meets Ramnath's maidservant Asha and they fall in love with each other. This all ends when Raj finds out that Asha is really Aarti, the niece of his employer. Unfortunately, his landlady Mrs. D'sa dies suddenly consuming medicine manufactured by Mr. Ramnath. The police conduct a post-mortem and as a result, conclude that someone poisoned Mrs. D'sa. The police take Raj for questioning as the prime suspect, arrest him, and hold him in jail. In the trial, however, Ramnath admits full responsibility for the tainted medicine, clearing Raj of the charges. Aarti tells Raj she promised Mrs. D'sa she would take care of him, someone who is "as big an idiot as the world is clever," giving a sense that they will marry.[2]
Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome and intelligent young man. Working as a painter, he is unable to earn a living. One day Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the man it belongs to. Impressed by his honesty, the man employs him to work in his office as a clerk.
Rom-com with a melodramatic side-story.Easy-feels adorableness at a level that's hard to come by... unless you're a Raj Kapoor denier, like some people out there, in which case you'll be immune to its charms.
People should really go back in time and watch Indian movies from the 50s and so. This is the first Raj Kapoor film that I saw today, and I'm so much in shock. Like how beautiful the movie is. It's unbelievable. And Raj Kapoor's performance is out of this world truly. The film beautifully shows the reality of the society and how honest people have no place in the world. It's a beautiful film by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, very fine acting by Raj Kapoor, Nutan and Lalita Pawar. Loved it!
Starring Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Lalita Pawar and Motilal, Anari was the second directorial venture of famed filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee, who was already an established editor in Hindi movies at the time. Raj plays Rajkumar, an extension of his character from Awara and Shree 420. He is lost in life, unemployed, and disappointed with the unjust world that favours the rich. Rajkumar loses a job at a restaurant because he believes that patrons should not be eating food that has bugs in it, his manager thinks otherwise.
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