''Bhanwara '' is an Indian Hindi language film. It was the third highest grossing Indian film of 1944. It was released in

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. The film was directed by

Kidar Sharma Kidar Nath Sharma, also Kedar Sharma (12 April 1910 – 29 April 1999), was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and Lyricist of Hindi films. While he had great success as a director of such movies as '' Neel Kamal'' (1947), ''Bawre ...

for

Ranjit Movietone Ranjit Studios, also known as Ranjit Movietone, was an Indian film production company with studio facilities located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It produced films between 1929 and mid-1970s. The studio was founded by Chandulal Shah along wit ...

. It starred

K. L. Saigal Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal (11 April 1904 – 18 January 1947), was an Indian singer and actor who is considered the first superstar of the Hindi film industry, which was centred in Kolkata during Saigal's time, but is ...

, Arun, Kamala Chatterjee,

Monica Desai Monica Desai was an Indian actress. She was married to Phani Majumdar. Filmography * ''Vikram Shashikala'' (1948) * ''Ajit'' (1948) * ''Chanda Ki Chandni'' (1948) * '' Chittor Vijay'' (1947) * ''Devdasi In India, a devadasi was a female ...

, Lala Yakub and Brijmala. Set in the early 1940s, the film, a musical comedy is about two friends who arrive in the city to find jobs.

Plot

Two friends, Pancham (

) and Rekhab ( Arun) have just arrived in the city. They are looking for jobs and accommodation. Pancham interested in music, finds a job in a music and dance school to teach singing. There he meets Indu (

), who teaches dancing to the students. She also happens to be his upstairs neighbour where he has rented a room. Indu lives there with her sister Bindu (Kamala Chatterjee). Rekhab manages to rent a room below a wrestler's (Lala Yakub) accommodation. The two friends fall in love with the two sisters. The wrestler helps Rekhab to develop his physique in order to impress his sweetheart. Through comic situations that follow, the film ends happily.

Cast

* Arun * Kamala Chatterjee *

* Lala Yakub * Brijmala * Kesari

Music

The music was composed by

Khemchand Prakash Khemchand Prakash (12 December 1907 – 10 August 1949) was a music composer in the Hindi film industry. He had few peers in 1940s, the decade for Indian film music which started with Saigal very active on the scene and ended with Lata Mangeshkar ...

with lyrics by

, and a song written each by Swami Ramanand Saraswati and Pandit Indra.

Songlist

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, id =0381050 , title =Bhanvara 1944 1944 films 1940s Hindi-language films Indian black-and-white films Indian musical comedy films 1944 musical comedy films