Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ganga Jamuna (1961)

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Jan 25, 2012, 6:41:28 AM (12 years ago)

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Ganga Jamuna (1961)

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+== Ganga Jumna ==
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+1961 178’ col Hindi-Bhojpuri
+
+d Nitin Bose
+
+pc Citizens Films
+
+s/p Dilip
+Kumar dial Wajahat Mirza
+
+lyr Shakeel Badayuni c V. Babasaheb m Naushad
+
+lp Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Nasir Khan,
+Azra, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Nasir
+Hussain, S. Nazir, Leela Chitnis, Perveen Paul,
+Helen, Husn Bano, Ranjeet Sud, Khwaja Sabir,
+Amar, Bihari, Harun, Narbada Shankar, Fazlu,
+Ram Kumar, Akashdeep, Baby Aruna, Baby
+Naaz
+
+
+Dilip Kumar produced, wrote and starred in
+this story, shot in garish Technicolor, of two
+brothers on opposite sides of the law, Ganga
+(D. Kumar) and Jumna (played by D. Kumar’s
+real-life brother, N. Khan). Having been framed
+by a zamindar (A. Hussain) for a crime he did
+not commit, Ganga becomes a criminal living
+in the mountains with his girlfriend Dhanno
+(Vyjayanthimala). His brother, educated on
+Ganga’s money in the city, becomes a
+policeman. When years later Ganga is to
+become a father, he decides to return to the
+village to ask people’s forgiveness, but he has
+to face his righteous brother Jumna who shoots
+him dead. Dhanno also dies in the gun battle.
+This dacoit drama, resembling a cross between
+30s Hollywood gangster films and westerns,
+pioneered a widely copied action film formula
+(cf. Deewar, 1975). The most significant
+difference from the Hollywood stories is that
+the two main protagonists are brothers instead
+of ‘kids from the same block’ or ‘erstwhile
+bosom buddies’. Dilip Kumar uses Bhojpuri
+instead of Hindi to liberate himself from his
+usual, more restrained persona while at the
+same time equating naturalism with a distinct
+class attitude against which, in this film, he
+rebels. This strategy was later followed by e.g.
+Bachchan (Ganga Ki Saugandh, Don, both
+1978). The songs Nain lad gayi re (sung by
+Mohammed Rafi), Do hanson ka joda,
+Dhoondo dhoondo re saajana and Na
+maanon re (sung by Lata Mangeshkar), were
+major hits though little can be said for their
+picturisation.