Deedar
About Deedar
A boy and a girl are pulled apart because of the gap between their families. Years later he is blind and earns his living by singing, still looking for her. Nitin Bose's film follows that search. Dilip Kumar plays the singer. Nargis, Ashok Kumar, and Nimmi are the other leads.
Cast & crew
More about Deedar
Nitin Bose directed. Filmkar produced. Naushad composed the music. Released in 1951. Hindi.
Themes
Background
A 1951 Hindi musical tragedy, built on a childhood promise that class rules cancel.
In film history
The Tamil and Turkish remakes, and the use of the film inside Seth's A Suitable Boy, kept the story in circulation after the first run.
Making
A revival screening in Mumbai is what Kumar and Khosla used as the starting point for Do Badan.
Music
Naushad composed the songs. The blind man's living is the singing.
Notes
- Remade in Tamil as Neengadha Ninaivu (1963) and in Turkish as Seven Unutmaz (1978).
- Manoj Kumar took director Raj Khosla to a Mumbai revival. They then reworked the story into Do Badan (1966), which was also a hit.
- Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy (1993) returns to the film: viewers cry, and people who cannot get tickets start a disturbance.
- The childhood separation is a class split, not a quarrel.
Scenes
- The children are separated.
- The grown man, blind, sings his way through a search for her.
Influenced
- Neengadha Ninaivu (1963)
- Do Badan (1966)
- Seven Unutmaz (1978)
