''Zindagi Zindagi'' () is a

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directed by

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. The film stars

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and

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. The film revolves around life in a village hospital and has casteism as an issue at its core. It had a soundtrack by

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, which fetched him a National Award for Best Music. It is a remake of Sinha's 1959 Bengali hit ''Khoniker Atithi''.

Synopsis

This movie revolves around a village hospital that was built by a generous hearted man, Choudhury Ramprasad who is also a patient in the hospital. The other patients include Isamil, Dayaram, Ratan, and the doctor is Dr. Sunil. Amongst the patient is a singer, who loves Shyama a worker in the hospital. When Meeta Sharma comes to the hospital to admit her son, she meets Sunil who she loved during college days, but her uncle and aunt reject their marriage due to casteism and gets Meeta married to Brahmin Engineer who dies in a railway accident leaving Meeta with a five-year-old child Babu who becomes paralytic due to a fall from a staircase. In the background of the hospital atmosphere is an election in the village, which is proceeding smoothly, but causing a disturbance is Ramprasad's son Shiv Prasad. Ramprasad wins the election but on his death bed. Sunil gets Babu successfully operated but is unable to walk due to no confidence. Ratan a TB patient recovers and leaves the hospital with Shyama a hospital worker to get married. Shiv Prasad instigates everyone about an affair between Sunil and Meeta which is solved after a quarrel. Dr Sunil gets the confidence of Babu with the help of other children, who coax him to run around playfully, finally Babu starts walking and Meeta relents to an urging Dr Sunil to join him in the hospital services, so that both can raise Babu to be a doctor.

Cast

as Dr. Sunil Singh *

as Meeta Sharma *

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as Shiv Prasad (Ram's son) *

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as Ratan (ex-soldier) * Chaaya Devi as Mrs. Singh, Sunil's mother * Anwar Hussain as Patient Dayaram *

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as Patient Ismail *

as Shyama (Hospital Worker) *

as Ram Prasad (Hospital benefactor / Patient / Politician / Shiv's father) *

as Heera (Patient / Singer) * Mrinal Mukherjee as Compounder Kishore * Nasir Khan as Principal Dr. Mukherjee * Sameer Roy as Loknath (Social Activist) * Ruby Meyers as Senior Matron *

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as Ramu (Dr. Sunil's servant) * Gajanan Jagirdar as Mr. Sharma (Meeta's uncle) *

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as ''Chachi'' (Meeta's aunt) * Chand Usmani as Leela *

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as Babu (Meeta's son) * Mukri as Ramu (Sunil's servant) * Narbada Shankar as Brahmin / Pandit * Jankidas as Loknath's Assistant

Music

The songs are composed by

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and the lyrics are written by

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. # "''Zindagi Ai Zindagi''" -

# "''Khus Raho Sathiyo Khus Raho Sathiyo''" -

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# "''Mera Sab Kuch Mere Geet Re''" -

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# "''Teri Jat Kya Hai, Meri Jat Kya Hai''" -

# "''Tune Hame Kya Diya Ri Jindagi''" -

# "''Kon Sacha Hai Kon Jhutha Hai''" -

# "''Piya Tune Kya Kiya Re''" -

External links

* 1972 films Hindi remakes of Bengali films 1970s Hindi-language films 1970s romance films Films scored by S. D. Burman Hindi-language romance films {{1970s-Hindi-film-stub