Azad movie songs dilip kumar biography

Dilip Kumar is one of the greatest actors  the world has ever seen, there is no doubt about it.  There is a perception among younger audiences that Dilip Saab could only do tragic roles, but as a thespian, he has proved his mettle in all kind of characters. In Azaad we get to see his comic and fun side.

Azaad is a remake of Tamil film Maalaikallan (Thief of Hills), this was the first big hit of MGR and the screenplay for which was written by none other than Karunanidhi.  Dilip Kumar was undergoing counselling when he was approached by S M Naidu to play this role and he took this up as a challenge.

Set in the fictional town of Bhopur, cops are trying to catch Azaad (Dilip Kumar)  who is being suspected of murders and dacoity in town. We have Shobha (Meena Kumari) who is living with her adopted parents who are searching a groom for her like all Indian parents do.  We have Sunder (Pran) who is a baddie who wants to marry Shobha. For a major part of the film we just see him smoking an

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I know it is Shashi-week elsewhereand also elsewhere elseand it isn't as if there hasn't been a lot of Shashi around here, however, I am going to carry on with the next post I had planned which just happens not to involve Shashi. The next one up, however, will be the delightful Farz ki Jung, another product of that under-appreciated decade, the 1980s.

Azaad is another movie staring Dillip Kumar and Meena Kumari which is surprisingly free from tears and melodrama, although there are abducted maidens, misplaced sons and threatened fathers.

The movie starts rather promisingly with a pretty cool Dvd menu:



The title sequence itself is less impressive but still rather nice:


We are straight away introduced to Shoba (Meena Kumari) who is returning from an invigorating morning ride. The conversation between her and her mother (Achala Sachdev) swiftly moves towards the topic of marriage, and when her father (Badri Prasad) joins in they both lament that they lost their son Kumar in child

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Azaad (1955 film)

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1955 Indian film

Azaad (transl. Free) is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language action comedy bio produced and directed bygd S. M. Sriramulu Naidu. It was the top grossing Hindi film in the year of its release, and one of the biggest Hindi bio hits in the decade. In addition, Dilip Kumar won his second Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his work in this movie.

C. Ramchandra was the music director. Hit songs from the movie include "Aplam Chaplam", sung bygd Lata Mangeshkar and Usha Mangeshkar and "Na Bole Na Bole", sung bygd Lata Mangeshkar. The movie was a remake of director's own 1954 Tamil film Malaikkallan.^[1]

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