Sangam (1964 Hindi film), a 1964 Raj Kapoor, Vyjayantimala & Rajendra Kumar film; Sangam (1964 Urdu film), a 1964 Pakistani Urdu feature film; Sangam, a 1997 Syed Noor film; Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters a 2003 album by Michael Nyman and U. Srinivas; Sangam, a 2004 jazz album by Charles Lloyd, with Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland. Sangam is a Hindi movie released on 01 January, 1964. The movie is directed by Raj Kapoor and featured Raj Kapoor, Vaijayanti Mala and Rajendra Kumar as lead characters.
| Sangam | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Raj Kapoor |
| Produced by | Raj Kapoor |
| Written by | Inder Raj Anand |
| Starring | Vyjayanthimala Raj Kapoor Rajendra Kumar |
| Narrated by | Raj Kapoor |
| Music by | Shankar Jaikishan |
| Cinematography | Radhu Karmakar |
| Edited by | Raj Kapoor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | R. K. Films |
Release date | |
Running time | 238 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindustani[1] |
| Budget | est.₹ 1 crore (est.₹ 80 crore as of 2019) |
| Box office | est.₹ 8 crore (est.₹ 684 crore as of 2019) |
Sangam (transl.Confluence) is a 1964 Bollywoodromance film, directed by Raj Kapoor, written by Inder Raj Anand, and produced by Kapoor with Mehboob Studio and Filmistan. The film stars Vyjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar in the lead roles, with Iftekhar, Raj Mehra, Nana Palsikar, Lalita Pawar, Achala Sachdev and Hari Shivdasani appearing in supporting roles.
Internationally the film released in the Soviet Union in 1964[2][3] and Turkey in 1968, as well as Bulgaria, Greece and Hungary.[4] Director Dasari Narayana Rao remade the film in Telugu and Kannada languages as Swapna (1981). The film also remade in Turkish as Arkadaşımın Aşkısın (1968).
Plot summary[edit]
Sundar (Raj Kapoor), Gopal (Rajendra Kumar) and Radha (Vyjayantimala) have been friends since childhood. As they grow into adults, Sundar develops an obsessive romantic attraction to Radha; for him, she is the only woman in the world. However, Radha prefers Gopal, who is also in love with her, and systematically resists Sundar's advances. Matching Sundar's great love for Radha is his unswerving devotion to his friendship with Gopal. Sundar confides his feelings for Radha to Gopal, who decides to sacrifice his love for his friend's sake.
Eventually, Sundar enlists in the Indian Air Force and is assigned a dangerous mission in Kashmir, delivering items to soldiers fighting there. Before leaving, he extracts a promise from Gopal, whom he trusts implicitly, never to let any man come between Radha and himself while he is away. Sundar subsequently completes his mission, but his aircraft is shot down and he is listed as killed in action and presumed dead. For his bravery, he is awarded the Param Vir Chakra. The news saddens Radha and Gopal, but they are nonetheless now free to profess their love for one another. Among other expressions of love, Gopal writes her an unsigned love letter that touches her and which she hides away. Just when they begin taking steps to be married, Sundar returns, safe and sound. The self-effacing Gopal sacrifices himself once more, stepping back into the shadows and watching as the reborn Sundar resumes his wooing of Radha. Before Sundar enlisted, Radha's parents did not like him, but after he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, they are happy to give her away in marriage to him.
After the couple returns from an extended European honeymoon, Sundar is deliriously happy, as his life's dream has been realised. Radha is resolved to be faithful to her husband and to put Gopal out of her mind, privately asking him to stay away from her and Sundar because of the torture his presence causes her. Sundar's devotion to Gopal, however, is such that he constantly tries to draw him into their lives, much to Radha's chagrin. The perfection of their marital bliss is, however, shattered when Sundar accidentally discovers the unsigned love letter Gopal had written to Radha. An enraged Sundar pulls a pistol on his wife and demands she divulge the name of her supposed lover, threatening to kill the man, but she refuses.
In the days that follow, Sundar becomes consumed with discovering the identity of the letter's author. Radha's life becomes miserable, lived out against the incessant drama of Sundar's jealousy, threats, anger, and fixation with the letter. Eventually unable to bear the wretchedness of her existence with Sundar any further, she flees to Gopal for help. Sundar takes the same route, unaware that Radha has gone to Gopal's house. There, matters come to ahead. The overwrought Gopal admits his authorship of the infamous letter to Radha, an admission that almost destroys his friend. Gopal, perceiving no exit from the impasse at which the three have arrived, kills himself with Sundar's pistol. Radha and Sundar are finally reunited but in mourning.
Cast[edit]
- Raj Kapoor as Flight Lt. Sundar Khanna
- Vyjayanthimala as Radha Mehra / Radha Sundar Khanna
- Rajendra Kumar as Magistrate Gopal Verma
- Iftekhar as Indian Air Force Officer
- Raj Mehra as Judge Mehra
- Nana Palsikar as Nathu
- Lalita Pawar as Mrs. Verma
- Hari Shivdasani as Captain
- Achala Sachdev as Captain's wife
- Randhir Kapoor as Young Raj Kapoor
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
In the late 1940s, Raj Kapoor planned to launch a film under the title of Gharonda with Dilip Kumar, Nargis and himself in the lead playing the central characters.[5] The story was penned by Inder Raj Anand during the making of Kapoor's first directorial film, Aag (1948).[5] However, the film was postponed for several reasons and was in development hell until 1962, when it was titled as Sangam, with new cast and crew.[5]
Casting[edit]
Initially, Kapoor approached Dilip Kumar to play the role of Gopal Verma.[5] Kumar agreed to play either one of the two male roles, on the condition that he be given the right to edit the final copy of the film.[5] Since Kapoor could not accept Kumar's condition, he then approached Dev Anand for the role. The latter also declined the role, citing call sheet problems as the reason.[5] Raj Kapoor then offered the role to Uttam Kumar but he too declined the offer.[6] The role was finally given to Rajendra Kumar.[5]Nargis was to appear in the film as well, but she refused, as her relationship with Raj Kapoor had just ended. Furthermore, she did not want to appear in the role of Rajendra Kumar's lover, having played his mother several years before in Mother India. Therefore, Vyjayanthimala was cast in the female lead role.
Filming[edit]
During filming, Raj Kapoor took the help of the Indian Air Force in the shooting of the Air Force scenes. This was also Raj Kapoor's first complete film in color.
Soundtrack[edit]
The music for this film was composed by Shankar Jaikishan, while the songs were written by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri. The soundtrack was listed by Planet Bollywood as number 8 on their list of 100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks. Vyjayantimala made her debut as a singer by beautifully humming to the tunes of 'Yeh Mera Prem Patra Padhkar', along with Mohammed Rafi .[7]
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| # | Title | Singer(s) | Lyricist | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'Bol Radha Bol' (Alternate title: Mere Man Ki Ganga) | Vyjayanthimala, Mukesh | Shailendra | 04:39 |
| 2 | 'Dost Dost Na Raha' | Mukesh | Shailendra | 05:51 |
| 3 | 'Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega' | Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor | Shailendra | 04:45 |
| 4 | 'O Mehbooba' | Mukesh | Hasrat Jaipuri | 04:59 |
| 5 | 'O Mere Sanam' | Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh | Shailendra | 04:13 |
| 6 | 'Yeh Mera Prem Patra' | Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi | Hasrat Jaipuri | 04:25 |
| 7 | 'Main Kya Karoon Ram' | Lata Mangeshkar | Hasrat Jaipuri | 03:45 |
| 8 | 'Ich Liebe Dich I Love You' (Lyrics in German language) | Vivian Lobo | 03:09 | |
| 9 | 'Dost Dost Na Raha' (Instrumental: Electric guitar) | Van Shipley | 03:05 | |
| 10 | 'Ich Liebe Dich I Love You' (Sad)(Lyrics in German language) | Vivian Lobo | 02:15 |
Reception[edit]
Commercial response[edit]
Sangam was a success at the box office. Boxofficeindia.com reported the film had collected ₹80,000,000 and its net collection, ₹40,000,000.[8] Similarly, Boxofficeindia.co.in reported the film had the same box office collection, while its adjusted to inflation by comparing the collection with the price of Gold in 1964 is about ₹7,173,154,362 (US$100 million).[9] On the contrary to the both reports, Ibosnetwork.com claim that Sangam grossed around ₹50,000,000 with its adjusted to inflation gross to be ₹7,602,400,000 (US$110 million).[10] By the end of its overall box office collection, Sangam was labelled as blockbuster at the box office, where it was the highest-grossing film of the year.[8]
Furthermore, Sangam also ranked as second highest-grossing film of the decade by Boxofficeindia.com behind Mughal-e-Azam, where its adjusted to inflation net reportedly was about ₹885,700,000 (US$12 million).[11] The film was also ranked at fourth by Boxofficeindia.co.in in their 2011 list of 'Top 50 Film of Last 50 Years', which feature all-time highest grossing Bollywood films by using the relative price of gold in different years to arrive at a hypothetical current value of box office collections of past films.[12]
Awards[edit]
| Award | Category | Nominee | Outcome | Note | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards | Best Indian Films | Raj Kapoor | Won | On behalf of R. K. Films | [13] [14] [15] |
| Best Director | Raj Kapoor | ||||
| Best Editing | Raj Kapoor | ||||
| Best Art Direction | M. R. Acharekar | ||||
| Best Cinematography | Radhu Karmakar | ||||
| Best Audiography | Allauddin Khan Qureshi | ||||
| 12th Filmfare Awards | Best Film | Raj Kapoor | Nominated | On behalf of R. K. Films | |
| Best Director | Won | ||||
| Best Actor | Nominated | ||||
| Best Actress | Vyjayanthimala | Won | |||
| Best Supporting Actor | Rajendra Kumar | Nominated | |||
| Best Story | Inder Raj Anand | ||||
| Best Music Director | Shankar Jaikishan | ||||
| Best Lyricist | Shailendra | For 'Dost Dost Na Raha' | |||
| Best Male Playback Singer | Mukesh | ||||
| Best Editing | Raj Kapoor | Won | |||
| Best Sound Design | Allauddin Khan Qureshi |
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See also[edit]
- Buddha Mil Gaya of the film.
References[edit]
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- ^Aḵẖtar, Jāvīd; Kabir, Nasreen Munni (2002). Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar. Oxford University Press. p. 49. ISBN978-0-19-566462-1.
most of the writers working in this so-called Hindi cinema write in Urdu: Gulzar, or Rajinder Singh Bedi or Inder Raj Anand or Rahi Masoom Raza or Vahajat Mirza, who wrote dialogue for films like Mughal-e-Azam and Gunga Jumna and Mother India. So most dialogue-writers and most song-writers are from the Urdu discipline, even today.
- ^Sergey Kudryavtsev. 'Личное СВК (13000 названий) - фильмы 1961–1965 годов (часть 2 – 200 фильмов)'.
- ^Rajagopalan, Sudha (2005). Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin. ISBN9780253220998.
- ^'Sangam (1964)'.
- ^ abcdefgSurendra Miglani (28 May 2006). 'Sangam revisited'. The Tribune. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^'Raj Kapoor - Remembering Uttam Kumar: 10 memorable quotes about the 'Mahanayak' of Bengali cinema'. The Times of India. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^'100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks Ever – Part 4'. Planet Bollywood. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ ab'Box Office 1964'. Boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^Nitin Tej Ahuja; Vajir Singh; Saurabh Sinha (1 November 2011). 'Worth Their Weight in Gold!'. Boxofficeindia.co.in. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^'Sangam'. Ibosnetwork.com. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^'Top Earners 1960–1969 (Figures in Ind Rs)'. Boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^Nitin Tej Ahuja; Vajir Singh; Saurabh Sinha (3 November 2011). 'Top 50 Film of Last 50 Years'. Boxofficeindia.co.in. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^'BFJA Awards (1965)'. Gomolo.com. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^'The Nominations – 1964'. Indiatimes. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^'The Winners – 1964'. Indiatimes. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
External links[edit]
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- Sangam on IMDb