Movie Name : Chhalia

Producer : Subhash Pictures

Director : Manmohan Desai

Music Director : Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics : Qamar Jalalabadi

Songs :

Tere Rahon Mein Khade Hain - Lata Mangeshkar (Click here to hear the sound)

Chhalia Mera Naam - Mukesh (Click here to hear the sound)

Dum Dum Duga Diga - Mukesh (Click here to hear the sound)

Mere Toote Hui Dil Se - Mukesh

Film Synopsis :

Desai's directorial debut is an unlikely drama about India's Partition. Shanti (Nutan) is married to Keval (Rehman) in Lahore on the eve of Independance. When the nation is divided, Shanti's family and her husband migrate to Delhi, leaving her behind. She finds shelter for five years with the Afghan bandit Abdul Rehman (Pran) who has a sister of Shanti's age across the border. Shanti bears a son, Anwar, and when she travels to Delhi with her child her husband disowns her, as does her father. She finds shelter with another generous criminal, Challia (Raj Kapoor), who falls in love with her. Abdul Rehman comes to Delhi to pursue an old feud with Challia and threatens to kidnap Shanti. After an extended fight sequence, the two bandits call a truce. On the train back to Pakistan, Rehman is reunited with his sister. Challia arranges a reconcilliation between Shanti and Keval, renouncing his own chance at happiness. The film alludes to aspects of realism derived from radical literature as well as from Kapoor's presence, but Desai seems impatient with the finer points of plot structure, a tendency that would later lead to his virtual abandonment of temporally coherent plots in the Amitabh Bachchan films of the 70's and 80's. The film had several hit songs including the communal-harmony number, Chhalia mera naam, sung by Mukesh.

- Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema - Ashish Rajadhyaksha& Paul Willemen - New Revised Edition 1999-