Daag
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About Daag
Shankar makes mud toys and drinks away what they earn. He loves Parvati, who lives next door with her stepbrother Jagat Narayan. After a fight with his mother he goes to the city, stops drinking, comes back with money, clears the mortgage, and asks Parvati to marry him. Her family has already arranged another match. He drinks again. His mother dies. Jagat Narayan then agrees to the marriage, Shankar quits drinking, and the film ends with the wedding.
Cast & crew
More about Daag
Amiya Chakravarty produced and directed. Shankar-Jaikishan wrote the music. Dilip Kumar plays Shankar and Nimmi plays Parvati. Madhubala was Chakravarty's first choice for Parvati and turned it down because she was already shooting Tarana and Sangdil with Kumar. The running time is 149 minutes.
Themes
Background
A 1952 Hindi melodrama that treats a drinking debt as something a marriage can close. The Filmfare result arrived two years later, at the first ceremony.
Making
Chakravarty lost Madhubala to two other Kumar pictures and cast Nimmi. The Filmfare that Kumar won for Shankar was the first Best Actor trophy the organization gave out.
Audiences
It was reported as a hit, with a gross of ₹1,50,00,000.
Music
Shankar-Jaikishan composed the score.
Notes
- The Hindi title means "The Stain.
- Dilip Kumar won the first Filmfare Award for Best Actor. The awards began in 1954 and this prize was for the 1952 performance.
- Usha Kiran plays Pushpa, Kanhaiyalal plays Jagat Narayan, and Leela Mishra plays Jagat's wife.
- Trade reports called it a hit on a gross of ₹1,50,00,000.
- Lalita Pawar is in the supporting cast.
Awards
- Filmfare Award for Best Actor (Dilip Kumar, awarded 1954)
Scenes
- Shankar pays off the mortgage and proposes, and finds Parvati already promised elsewhere.
- His mother dies while he is drinking again.
- Jagat Narayan consents, and the drinking stops.
