Sohni Mahiwal is a 1946 Indian

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romantic drama film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typica ...

directed by Ishwarlal and Ravindra Jaykar and produced in

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Productions. It is based on the folk story of

Sohni Mahiwal Sohni Mahiwal or Suhni Mehar ( pa, , ਸੋਹਣੀ ਮਹੀਂਵਾਲ is one of the four popular tragic romances of Punjab including Sindh. In Sindh Sohni's shrine is in Shahdadpur Town of Sangar District. The others are Sassi Punnun, Mirza ...

. The film starred Begum Para in the lead role as Sohni, along with Ishwarlal, Mubarak, Dixit and Shobha.

Cast

* Begum Para as Sohni *

Ishwarlal Ishwarlal was a Bollywood Hindi actor, director and producer, active from 1930 to 1966. He was born 9 October 1911 at Waghania, Bombay Presidency, British India as Hariprashad Joshi. He died on 22 January 1969 in Bombay (Mumbai), India aged 57 ...

* Mubarak * Dikshit * Reva Shankar * Saeed Ahmed * Gharpure * Bibibai * Shobha * Nafees Begum * Kesharbai.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Lal Mohammad with lyrics by Swami Ramanand and Munshi Dil. The movie is a musical and contains 11 songs, most of which were sung by

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, who had five solos and three duets with

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. Naseem Akhtar and Reva Shankar sang one song each. The lyrics for "Nahin Chiraag" and "Oh tujh Pe Salaam Ae Mere Nakeaam-e-Mohabbat" were written by Munshi Dil. The lyrics of the other songs are by Swami Ramanand.Hindi Film Geet Kosh Volume 2

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* 1946 films 1940s Hindi-language films 1946 romantic drama films Indian romantic drama films Films based on Indian folklore Indian black-and-white films {{1940s-Hindi-film-stub