Ratan
About Ratan
Gauri and Govind grow up together and love each other, but they are of different castes and cannot marry. Gauri is married to an older man who has a small child. After he sees her face he will not take her as a wife, because he thinks her youth has been thrown away on him. She later goes back to the place where Govind is.
Cast & crew
More about Ratan
M. Sadiq directed. Abdul Rashid Kardar produced. R. S. Choudhury and D. N. Madhok wrote it. Naushad composed the music and Madhok wrote the lyrics. Swaran Lata plays Gauri and Karan Dewan plays Govind. The Hindustani film runs 118 minutes and was released in 1944. It was the highest-grossing Indian film of that year.
Themes
In film history
The film is the one credited with putting Naushad among the leading Hindi film composers.
Making
Kardar produced a village romance whose songs, not the dialogue, made Naushad's name.
Audiences
It was the highest-grossing Indian film of 1944.
Music
Naushad composed the score. D. N. Madhok wrote the lyrics. Zohrabai Ambalawali, Amirbai Karnataki, and Karan Dewan are among the singers.
Notes
- Amir Banu plays Gauri's mother. Wasti plays Rattan, and Auzurie plays Gangu.
- Zohrabai Ambalawali sings 'Ankhiyan Milake' and 'Rimjhim Barse Badarwa.' Amirbai Karnataki sings 'Milke Bichhad Gayi Ankhiyan.' Karan Dewan sings 'Jab Tum Hi Chale Pardes.'
- The songs made Naushad one of the top music directors in the industry.
- Swaran Lata later said, in a Pakistan Television interview, that lyricist D. N. Madhok had set the tunes himself.
Scenes
- The older husband, seeing Gauri's face, refuses her because he thinks the marriage has cheated her.
- Gauri goes back toward Govind after the wedding.