Bawre Nain

Bawre Nain
Poster
Directed byKidar Nath Sharma
Written byAkhtar Mirza (story)
Kidar Nath Sharma (dialogue, screenplay)
Produced byKidar Nath Sharma
StarringRaj Kapoor
Geeta Bali
Cinematography
  • Machve Dada
  • Laxman Kapoor
  • T. N. Shah
Edited byPrabhakar Gokhale
Music byRoshan
Release date
  • 1950 (1950)
Running time
138 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Bawre Nain ("searching eyes") is a 1950 Indian Hindi-language romance film directed by Kidar Nath Sharma.[1] It was produced under the Ambitious Pictures banner at Shree Sound Studios. For the music, Sharma persisted with music director Roshan, in spite of several demands from film distributors to have him removed following his failure as a composer in an earlier film, Neki Aur Badi (1949).[2] The music became popular and is stated to be the reason for the film's success.[3] One of the noteworthy songs that popularised playback singer Mukesh was "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin", composed in Raga Darbari Kaanada.[4][5] Bawre Nain is cited as Roshan's "first big hit" as a music composer.[6]

The film starred Raj Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Vijayalaxmi, Prakash, Darpan, Pessi Patel, Jaswant and Cuckoo.[7] Both Raj Kapoor and Geeta Bali were Sharma discoveries, with Raj Kapoor's first film being Sharma's Neel Kamal and Geeta Bali's Sohaag Raat.[8]

The film was a success and is cited as a "classic", with special mention for Sharma's "exceptionally worded lyrics". Roshan's music, with songs like "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke" became a favourite with "millions", starting him on "a glorious career".[9]

  1. ^ Sharma, Kidar (2002). The one and lonely Kidar Sharma (1st ed.). India: Bluejay Books. ISBN 81-87075-96-1.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference VittalBhattacharjee was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Desai was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Ganesh Anantharaman (January 2008). Bollywood Melodies: A History of the Hindi Film Song. Penguin Books India. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-14-306340-7.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bharatan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Gulazāra; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). "Biography-Roshan". Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 615–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5.
  7. ^ Ritu Nanda (2002). "Filmography-Raj Kapoor". Raj Kapoor: Speaks. Penguin Books India. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-0-670-04952-3.
  8. ^ Singh, Jaswant (2 June 2002). "Life of a producer-director-script writer and lyricist". The Tribune. No. Sunday Spectrum. Spectrum, The Tribune. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  9. ^ S. M. M. Ausaja (2009). Bollywood in Posters. Om Books International. ISBN 978-81-87108-55-9.