Nazar ka ye paighaam
Posted by: Atul on: November 13, 2025
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‘Barkha Bahaar’ (1973) was produced by Amar Kumar and his brother, Prahlad Kumar and was directed by Amar Kumar. The cast included Navin Nischol, Rekha, Kamran, Dulari, Murad, Hiralal, Mubarak etc. The film was based on ‘Resurrection’ (1899), the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. Amar Kumar has directed some good films such as ‘Garam Coat’ (1955), ‘Ab Dilli Door Naheen’ (1957), ‘Rangoli’ (1962), ‘Mere Sanam’ (1965), ‘Mere Hamdam Mere Dost’ (1968), ‘Pyaasi Shaam’ (1969) etc.
I was not aware of this film until recently. The information about the film is sketchy. I came across an advertisement of the film announcing the release of the film in 1971. However, the film was certified on October 25. 1973 and was released thereafter. This indicates that the film may have gone on the floor some time in 1970, most probably after the box office success of ‘Saawan Bhaadon’ (1970) in which both Navin Nischol and Rekha made their debut.
Unfortunately, the full film is not available to watch on any of the video sharing platforms. A few snippets as well as part of the second half of the film is available in an average video quality. Interestingly, the credit title of the film is restricted to displaying the names of the lead actors, cinematographer, lyricist, music director and the producer and director. Whatever parts I have watched, gives me a feel that the film has followed more or less the original story base of ‘Resurrection’ with customisation in the Indian settings, except the end.
From the available parts of the film with some hints from the novel, ‘Resurrection’ and some my own presumptions as to how the story may have moved, I have outlined the story of the film below:
In a village, two old unmarried sisters (Dulari and another actress I am not able to identify) run a dairy farm in their estates with the assistance of some maid servants. One of the maid servants had died leaving her small daughter, Ganga orphaned. One sister adopts Ganga who is kind to her and treat her as her own daughter. But other sister is harsh on Ganga treating her as a maid servant.
As she attained the age of 16, Ganga (Rekha) starts receiving marriage proposals from prospective grooms but she is not ready to marry. In her view, becoming a wife of a working man would be too hard for her, after pampered by her adopted mother. But thing changes when Rahul (Navin Nischol), a college student and the nephew of old sisters comes for a short stay with his aunts. Ganga starts liking him, probably for the first time, she has encountered a sophisticated looking person.
About two years later after completion of his college, Rahul visits his aunts and stays with them for a week before joining his duties. He finds Ganga has grown up as a beautiful girl and gets infatuated with her. Ganga spends most of the time with Rahul in the pretext of serving him. Rahul also calls her often in the pretext of getting some work done. They also spend some time outside. On the last day of his stay, both Rahul and Ganga are held up on their way back home due to heavy rains. They take shelter in an empty house where Rahul seduces her.
Next day, Rahul takes leave of his aunts to join his duties. Before leaving, he meets a gloomy Ganga and gives her a hundred rupee note. A few months later, Ganga finds herself pregnant. Now, her worry is how to escape from the shame. With tension brewing up in her mind, she starts neglecting her work. Both the sisters feel that there is something wrong with Ganga’s behaviour. They dismiss her from the job as a maid servant.
As her confinement comes nearer, she takes shelter in the house of a midwife where she gives birth to a baby boy. However, as the infant is born with an infection, the midwife sends the newborn baby to an orphanage and tells Ganga that the infant has died on his birth. Out of her confinement, Ganga struggles to sustain herself, changing several jobs where she is abused and exploited. After about seven years of her struggle, Ganga is forced to become a prostitute to sustain herself. Here also, she ends up in jail on suspicion of having poisoned her customer in order to steal his money. Her trial in the court is yet to start.
In the meanwhile, Rahul has become a lawyer and has married a high society girl, Savitri (unidentified actress for me). Coming from the family of landlord who has grown up in a luxurious life, Rahul’s one night stand with Ganga has gone out of his mind.
The trial of Ganga in the court starts and coincidentally, Rahul is the public prosecutor. He rises to submit to the judge the charges against Ganga of killing a person and glances at Ganga for the first time. For a moment, Rahul is dumbstruck. He is not able to continue his submission. He requests the judge to postpone the hearing in the pretext of feeling discomfort. He returns home and informs his wife, Savita that he has resigned from the post of public prosecutor. Savita is aghast as she is not able to understand as to why he has to resign for the sake of a prostitute. He responds by saying that he knows her. That sends shock waves in Savita.
Next day, before the resumption of the court hearing, Rahul meets Ganga in the prison and introduces himself. She refuses to recognise him by telling him that she has seen hundreds of customers in her business and perhaps he could be one of them. Ignoring her sarcastic retort, he offers to represent her in the next hearing because he is sure that she has not committed the murder. He also offer to marry her irrespective of the outcome of the case. But she refuses.
Rahul represents her in the next hearing after which judge pronounces Ganga guilty of murder and sentences her to life imprisonment. He meets Ganga in the prison and informs her that he is going to file an appeal in the higher court where he expects justice for her. Ganga says that now it does not make a difference to her of whatever the judgement. Rahul is upset as he finds Ganga has changed a lot in terms of her personality as she thinks every male coming to talk to her including himself is her prospective customer. But his guilt of having abandoned her after their one night stand affected his mind so much that only way to redeem himself is to marry her. With this intention, he divorces his wife on the ground that he is unfit to be her husband. On a visit to her aunt’s village, he apprises her of all the facts about Ganga and his relationship with her including her pregnancy.
[There is a big break in the film losing the link to the next scene which shows an aged Rahul and Ganga. This suggests that Rahul has won the case in the higher court and Ganga is freed].
Rahul meets Ganga in her village bringing with him, his son from the orphanage who was presumed dead. She is very happy to meet her son after his birth. Since she has declined his offer to marry her, Rahul suggests to get married to Baldev who was in love with her. And this would relieve him from his guilt.
The film ends with Baldev, Ganga and her son leaving the village in a ship and Rahul has come to wish them goodbye. However, after embarkment, Ganga’s son is so much attached to Rahul that he runs towards him when the ship is about to leave. Ganga follows her son and hugs Rahul as the Ship leaves the jetty with Baldev already boarded on it.
In the film, the end of the story is changed. In the novel, ‘Resurrection’, the story ends with the protagonist’s prison term getting commuted to 4-years on appeal at the higher court and on a further appeal for pardon, her hard labour prison term is changed into the status of a political prisoner to get some facilities. In the prison, she falls in love with a political prisoner and probably she stays with him after the end of her imprisonment.
The film, in nutshell, is the tale of egoism followed by guilt as represented in the Rahul’s character. The story moves to depict deep anger against Rahul and the society at large followed by the forgiveness in the character of Ganga. Both the lead actors have given matured performances for the roles which were challenging. I wish we had access to the VCD/DVD of full film with good quality to really appreciate this film. Perhaps, this film may qualify as the ‘middle of the road cinema’. Unfortunately, the film badly flopped.
‘Barkha Bahaar’ (1973) had five songs written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and were set to music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. One song has been covered on the Blog. I present the second song, ‘nazar kaa ye paighaam’ rendered by Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar which is picturised on Navin Nischol and Rekha. Incidentally, this song was not released on gramophone record.
The context of the song is that Rahul (Navin Nischol) has come on a visit to his aunt’s village after divorcing his wife. Her aunt taunts him that he has divorced his wife for the sake of a prostitute. He reveals to his aunt that it was he who was responsible to turn her into prostitution and he want to redeem himself by marrying her. And that prostitute is none other than Ganga (Rekha) who was pregnant with his child when he left the village and she had driven her out. With this revelation, Rahul goes into the nostalgic memory and the song under discussion appears in the film as a flashback of their blooming romance.
Video Clip:
Song-Nazar ka ye paighaam (Barkha Bahaar)(1973) Singers-Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
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Lyrics:
ho o o o o o o
ho o o o o o o
nazar kaa ye paighaam
diyaa jo aapne mere naam
nazar kaa ye paighaam
diyaa jo aapne mere naam
ke mujhko pyaar kiyaa
bada upkaar kiyaa
nazar kaa ye paighaam
diyaa jo aapne mere naam
ke mujhko pyaar kiyaa
bada upkaar kiyaa
nazar kaa ye paighaam
labon se aapke
iqraar ke nagme jo barse hain
labon se aapke
iqraar ke nagme jo barse hain
bataayen kyaa ke ham kitna yahee sunane ko tarse hain
tarse hain
hansee hai ye iqraar
kaho phir se zara ek baar
ke mujhko pyaar kiyaa
bada upkaar kiyaa
nazar kaa ye paighaam
giree ho meree baahon mein
to phir ab na sambhal jaana
giree ho meree baahon mein
to phir ab na sambhal jaana
badal kar zindagee meree
kaheen tum na badal jaana
badal jaana
pinhaa ker ye zanzeer
tumhaare haathh hai taqdeer
ke mujhko pyaar kiyaa
bada upkaar kiyaa
nazar kaa ye paighaam
diyaa jo aapne mere naam
ke mujhko pyaar kiyaa
bada upkaar kiyaa
nazar kaa ye paighaam
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November 14, 2025 at 10:21 am
Sadanand Ji
Thanks for the post. I did not know about Amar Kumar though I have seen all the movies you have mentioned as his directorial movies. Arguably, ‘Garam Coat’ is best of them.
I have not seen the movie ‘Barkha Bahar”
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November 14, 2025 at 12:14 pm
Satish ji,
Thanks for going through the post.
As I have mentioned, VCD/DVD of the full film is not available on any of the video sharing platofrms. But some parts of the film are available online. As of now, the only way to watch the full film is VCD/DVD if it is not out of stock in the market.
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