Diwana

Diwana (1952)

A young prince named Ashok falls in love with a girl named Lali whom he encounters for the first time while hunting in a forest. Later on he learns that Lali belongs to a nomadic community that is at present, inhabiting his region. Ashok meets Lali again and both confess that they are in love with each other. In the meantime Lali's father, who is the head of his community, sends a man named Phulwa to look for her.

Date of release
1952-05-21
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 24m
Genres
Romance
Director
Abdul Rashid Kardar

Casting

Interesting facts

Diwana is a 1952 Bollywood romantic drama movie directed and produced by Abdur Rashid Kardar. It was written by S. N. Banerji and edited by M. S. Hajee. It narrates the tragic love story of a prince and a nomadic woman who marry each other, become separated and when they finally reunite together they find themselves bereaved at the loss of their only son. It stars Suraiya, Sumitra and Suresh in the leading roles, with Shyam Kumar, Ramesh, Madan Puri, S N Banerji, Amirbai Karnataki, Mumtazbai, Neelambai and Amir Bano in supporting roles. The dialogues of this film were written by Jagdish Kanwal.

Trivia

Nai Duniya (1942) was the first film directed by A. R. Kardar that featured Naushad Ali's music. Naushad went on to become the staple music director for every film Kardar directed over the next decade. Diwana was the last film together in this stretch. Kardar used other music directors for his next few films till he took a break in 1958. When he made a comeback a few years later, he used Naushad one last time in Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966).

The song "Yeh Duniya Kaisi Hai Bhagwan..." was sung by Hridaynath Mangeshkar in 1952 at the age of 15. This song along with "Badlegi Yeh Duniya Ek Din Badlegi..." (Sanskar (1952)) and "Sancho Tero Naam Ram..." (Baiju Bawra (1952)) were his first Hindi film songs.

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