Nazrana

Nazrana (1961)

नजराना

Raj (Raj Kapoor) and Vasanti (Vyjayanthimala) are college mates who clash when she complains to the college principal about a love letter he sent her. Later on, realizing her mistake, Vasanti apologizes to him and the two fall in love. Vasanti's elder sister, Geeta (Usha Kiron), supports the family by stitching clothes. Raj rents the room upstairs in their house. He falls ill and in nursing him, Geeta falls in love with him. She confides her love to Vasanti, who decides to sacrifice her love for the sake of her sister and convinces Raj to marry Geeta. Raj initially neglects Geeta. On finding out, Vasanti writes to him that their sacrifice, made for Geeta's happiness, would mean nothing unless he is a good husband to Geeta. Raj relents and marries Geeta and they have a son. Vasanti joins them and Geeta suspects that there is something on between Raj and Vasanti and makes Vasanti leave the house.

Date of release
1961-01-01
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 10m
Director
C. V. Sridhar

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Kalyana Parisu

Nazrana (transl. Gift) is a 1961 Indian black-and-white Hindi-language melodrama film produced by S. Krishnamurthy and T. Govindarajan and directed by C. V. Sridhar in his Hindi directorial debut. It stars Raj Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Usha Kiran in a love triangle, while South star Gemini Ganeshan has an extended cameo appearance. The music is by Ravi. The Mohammed Rafi song "Baazi Kisi Ne Pyar Ki Jeeti Ya Haar Di", which was picturised on Raj Kapoor and it was one of the popular sad songs of that era.

Production

Initially the shooting of the film was started with actress B. Saroja Devi, who acted in the Tamil original Kalyana Parisu and its Telugu remake Pelli Kanuka. During filming, she had a fall out with the director C. V. Sridhar over scheduling conflict with Raj Kapoor and was replaced by actress Vyjayanthimala.

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