Movie Name : Hum Log

Producer : Shri Ranjit Movietone

Director : Zia Sarhadi

Music Director : Roshan

Lyrics : Adil & Udhav

Songs :

Apni Nazar Se - Mukesh

Dil Ke Pareshaniyan - Mukesh

Chhun Chhun Chhun Baje Payal - Lata Mangeshkar

Bahut Bura Hai Haal - Lata Mangeshkar

Bahe Ankhiyon Se Dhar - Lata Mangeshkar

Chali Ja Chali Ja - Lata Mangeshkar

Gaye Chale Ja - Lata Mangeshkar, G.M. Durrani & Chorus

Bogi Bogi Bogi - Shamshad Begum & G.M. Durrani

Film Synopsis :

Sarhadi's realist film forms a trilogy with Footpath (1953) and Awaaz (1956). It tells of the bank clerk Lala Haricharan Das, who supports a wife and three children on a meagre salary. His son Raj (Balraj Sahni) grows up disaffected; daughter Paro (Nutan) gets tuberculosis leading to big medical bills, and the youngest son Chhotu drops out of school with no money to pay for his education. Raj steals money belonging to his father's employer and causes the father's imprisonment. Raj now has to look after the family, suffers from overwork and heart disease and ignores his girlfriend Shefali (Shyama). Paro, kept apart from Anand, the man she loves, by her disease, writes the play Humlog (We, The People). Later Raj's friend Kundan (Anwar Hussain) is killed and Raj is arrested for the murder and dies of a heart attack in court. Paro and Anand, at the end, stage Paro's play as a self-reflexive comment on the film itself.

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