Mausam (1975 film)

Plot

Mausam is a dramatic love story of Dr. Amarnath Gill, who falls for Chanda, the daughter of a local healer, Harihar Thapa, when visiting Darjeeling for his medical exams. Amarnath is called back and promises Chanda to return, though he never keeps his promise. Twenty-five years later, he returns as a wealthy man and searches for Chanda and her father. He learns that Harihar has died and that Chanda was married to a crippled old man. She gave birth to a daughter, became insane and died. Finding Chanda's daughter, Kajli, he sees that she closely resembles her mother and later discovers that after having been molested by her mother's brother-in-law, she ended up at a brothel. Amarnath had no choice but to buy her from the brothel and he takes Kajli home and tries to change her into well refined woman to make up for what he did to Chanda. Unaware that Amarnath is indirectly responsible for her mother's death, Kajli begins to fall in love for him.

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Production

The film written simultaneously along with Aandhi (1975), together by Kamleshwar, Bhushan Banmali and Gulzar, and even shot together, with Sanjeev Kumar playing the lead of an old man in the films. Though Aandhi was released first, it ran into political controversy and portions of it has to be reshot, meanwhile Mausam was completed and released. While the song, "Meri ishq ke lakhon jhatke" was being shot with Sharmila Tagore, choreographer Saroj Khan was also in the studios for another film, that is when Gulzar requested her to teach a few moves to Tagore.

Music

The background score for the movie was composed by Salil Chowdhury and the songs were composed by Madan Mohan. The movie credits dedicate this movie to Late Madan Mohan after his demise on 14 July 1975. The songs of the movie were penned by Gulzar. Mausam is one of those two movies directed by Gulzar the songs of which were composed by Madan Mohan. The other one is Koshish.

The song Dil Dhoondta Hai, by Bhupinder Singh and Lata Mangeshkar, featured at 12th position on the Annual list of the year-end chart toppers of Binaca Geetmala for 1976.

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