CHAR DIL CHAR RAHEN | Raj kapoor | Meena Kumari

Director : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Producer : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Composer : Anil Biswas Cast : Raj Kapoor,Meena Kumari,David,Nana Palsikar,Nimmi The film had three love stories running comcurrently, through not interlinked because the characters don't really interact with one another despite the location a crossroad habitation that they share. Govinda (Raj Kapoor) the disheartened dhoti-clad Ahir boy ruthlessly separated from his lady love the outcast Chavli (a deglamourised Meena Kumari) who is also banished from the village. Johnny Braganza (Shammi Kapoor), a waiter who is back from a jail term after falsely implicated on charges of boothlegging by the hotel owner, Ferrara (David) who succeeds in seducing Johnny a girlfriend Stella (Kumkum). Now out he sets up a motor garage at the same crossroad. Pyari (Nimmi) who sets up a small shop, hoping that someday her rescuer from her lecherous employer (Anwar Husain) the Pathan driver, Dilawar (Ajit) will see reason and adopt both her as well as her mother whom he had despised. While the three love stories worked, the fourth dimension and the documentary -style treatment, did not go down well with the audience, and the film failed to score at the box office. Then one day arrives on the crossroad Nirmal Kumar (Jairaj) a trade unionist who persuades them to join him in his mission of constructing a road which will serve as a bridge to relationships and prosperity. And in the making of the road the lovers are reunited, chorusing "Sathi Re Kadam Se Dil Se Dil Mila Rahe" penned by Sahir Ludhianvi and set to music by Anil Biswas. The immortal melody however was the Lata Mangeshkar solo" Intezaar Aur Abhi".