The film was directed by KSR Das for ‘Balkrishna Movies, Madras’. It had Vijaylalita, Premnath, Ajit, Madan Puri, Anwar Hussain, Iftikhaar, Natrajan, Jagdeep, Jayshree T, Faryal and Baby Sridevi. Vinod Mehra did a special appearance in this movie. Nazir Hussain, Sulochana, Pandari Bai made guest appearances while Ashok Kumar and Om Prakash made friendly appearances in this movie.
This movie has four songs penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by RD Burman. There are three solos of Asha Bhonsle, and one duet song sung by Asha Bhonsle and Manna Dey.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 19.04.1972. By introducing this movie on the blog, we are adding one more of RD Burman’s missing movies from 1971-1980 on the blog.
As it happens with me while introducing a new movie on the blog, this time also, I was in dilemma about the song to be shared first. Finally, I decided to go by the first song in the movie as listed in HFGK. This song is picturized on Faryal – the yesteryears’ actress who has performed many dances including many cabarets in those days.The video link also gives her date of birth which is 3rd November 1945, which matches with her date of birth an mentioned on the anniversary page of the blog.
I am not aware much about her personal life. I remember watching her in many movies of the seventies. I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light about the actress and her movies and on the songs of this movie ‘Rani Mera Naam’. I am reproducing below the information about her as available and taken from Wikipedia. The page is available here
Faryal (born 3 November 1945 in Syria) is an Indian film actress and dancer of mixed Indian and Arabic descent working in Hindi films. She was a popular Bollywood cabaret dancer and actress in the 1960s and 70’s.
Faryal was born in the Damascus area of Syria on 3 November 1945 to an Indian father and a Syrian mother. She completed her education at Loretto Convent, Simla, Cathedral High School and St. Xavier’s College, Bombay. Faryal worked for a while as an air hostess in Air India before joining films. She is a product of the ‘FilmaIaya School of Acting’.
Faryal entered Bollywood in 1965 in the black-n-white movie ‘Zindagi aur Maut’, as a lead role opposite Pradeep Kumar. This film contained famous song “Dil Laga Kar Hum Ye Samjhe” sung solo by Asha Bhonsle and Mahender Kapoor. Both these songs are available on YouTube. Faryal was liked by people and resulted in her getting lead role in film ‘Biradari’ (1966) opposite Shashi Kapoor. The movie was a total flop. She was noted for her role as a cabaret dancer in the movie ‘Jewel Thief’ released in 1967. After the movie’s release, offers started pouring in. In an interview in 1973, Faryal stated that “Ever since Goldie cast me in that glamorous dancer’s role in Jewel Thief, film makers have looked upon me as an “excellent cabaret dancer”.” Whereas in reality I have never learnt dancing,” “I don’t even like dancing; I rather hate it”. At first afraid of being typecast, Faryal was reluctant to accept the numerous offers that she received soon after the release of Jewel Thief. But gradually she realized that if she refused the roles there were ten others ready to replace her. And now the bath tub scene in ‘Apradh’ released in 1972 had given me an even worse image”. Faryal retired from movies in 1984 after her performance as the girlfriend of Jeetendra in ‘Gold Medal’.
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January 4, 2018 at 11:04 am
Thanks Avinash ji, One of my Pancham Favourites, Thanks for the post and lyrics of the song
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January 4, 2018 at 10:02 pm
my pleasure Prakash ji,
thanks for liking it.
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