Parakh (1960 film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

O sajna barkha bahaar aayee lata parakh 1960 salil da shailendra

Parakh is a 1960 Hindi film, based on a story by famed music director Salil Chowdhury, that displays Bimal Roy's lighter side and is a satirical look at Indian democracy in its early years. Roy received the Filmfare Best Director Award for the film. The ensemble cast was led by Sadhana and Bengali cinema actorBasanta Choudhury. The film has music by Salil Choudhury, featuring Lata Mangeshkar's hit "O Sajana Barkha Bahaar Aai".

Plot

The central character is the Post Master who is given a mysterious cheque for ₹500,000 to be given to anyone who will use it to benefit the people of the village. There is a postman who pretends to be lame and is secretly rich and may have sent the cheque. Then there is the postmaster's wife, who is sick and would rather use the money to cure her illness, and his beautiful daughter Seema (played by Sadhana), who has a crush on the village school master. Meanwhile all the greedy and influential people of the village are busy trying to convince everybody why they are most deserving of the money; they include the village priest, the landlord, the money lender, the village doctor and the school master, who is by far the most respected. They all decide democracy is the best means and decide to hold an election where the winner gets the money. The movie is a satirical look at democracy through various twists and turns in the plot, interweaved with a simple love story.

Cast

O Sajanaa Barakhaa Sadhana Vasant Choudhary Parakh Songs

Sadhana as Seema

Durga Khote as J.C. Roy's mother (Rani Ma)

Leela Chitnis as Mrs. Nivaran

Praveen Paul

Mumtaz Begum as Mrs. Tandav Tarafdar

Mehar Banu

Basanta Choudhury as Prof. Rajat Sen Sharma

Nazir Hussain as Postmaster Nivaran

Kanhaiyalal as Pandit Tarkalankarji

Jayant as Rai Bahadur Tandav Tarafdar

Rashid Khan as Village Doctor

Asit Sen as Bhanju Babu

Motilal as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy

Hari Shivdasani as School's Principal

Moni Chatterjee as Kaviraj (Vaidji)

Keshto Mukherjee as Keshto (The Compounder)

Music

This film has a very popular song "O Sajana, Barkha Bahar Aai..." sung by Lata Mangeshkar, penned by Shailendra and composed by Salil Chowdhary who also happens to be story-writer of the film.