Baharon Ke Sapne
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Directed by	Nasir Hussain
Produced by	Nasir Hussain
Starring	Asha Parekh Rajesh Khanna Premnath
Cinematography	Jal Mistry
Edited by	Babu Lavande, Gurudutt Shirali
Music by	R.D. Burman
Release date	23 June 1967 (1967-06-23)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Baharon Ke Sapne (Dreams of Spring) is a 1967 Hindi film made under Nasir Hussain films' banner. It stars Asha Parekh and Rajesh Khanna in the lead roles. It also featured Premnath, Madan Puri and Rajendra Nath. Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote the lyrics and the music was composed by R.D. Burman. It is mostly a black-and-white film, except for one dream sequence: the song "Kya Janoo Sajan" was shot in color. In Baharon Ke Sapne, the response from the public in the first week of run forced the film's ending to be changed from a tragic one to happier one from the second week.^[1]

Synopsis

In a small industrial town near Bombay lives Bholanath, who works at the local mill, and is the proud husband of Gauri, a daughter, Champa, and above all his son, Ramaiya, who is a graduate in the arts faculty, - the only one in this town who has attained this degree. But times are hard, and jobs are difficult to come by. When Bholanath loses his job, Ramaiya decides to find employment, and does so as a menial worker in the same mill his dad used to work. Ramaiya is very popular with his co-workers and they soon elect him as their new union leader. This puts Ramaiya in conflict with the Management of the Mill, headed by the owner, Kapoor, who has ordered that Ramaiya be eliminated post haste. But Ramaiya is determined to address the workers' grievances, and he gets himself framed for theft; has the police on the lookout for him, and so Ramaiya goes into hiding. When Ramaiya does not show up for a workers' meeting, some believe that he has been bought by the mill management, and they decide to take the matters into their own hands - by burning the mill down, killing Kapoor and his family, and getting into direct confrontation with the local police, who have been issued orders to shoot-at-sight. The original end, where Ramaiya was supposed to die along with Geeta, taking bullet from the leader of the agitation, but the response from the viewers forced the ending to be a happier one. In the end, both survive and the mill restarts.

Cast

• Asha Parekh as Geeta
• Rajesh Khanna as Ramaiya
• Prem Nath as Mr. Kapoor
• Rajendra Nath as Pandu
• Madan Puri as Ranjeet
• Sulochana Latkar as Gouri
• Nana Palsikar as Bholanath
• P. Jairaj
• Anwar Hussain
• Ram Avtar
• Bela Bose as Guest Dancer
• Laxmi Chhaya as Guest Dancer

Production

The film Teesri Manzil (1966) was originally supposed to be directed by Nasir Hussain and was to star Dev Anand in the lead. Baharon Ke Sapne was to be directed by Vijay Anand. However, on the occasion of Sadhana's engagement party, a misunderstanding erupted between Dev Anand and Nasir Hussain, when apparently, Nasir overheard Dev Anand saying "The film which Nasir is making with me is coloured and he has given Goldie some black-and-white film to make. Goldie is making the movie with some new boy, Rajesh Khanna". It was the next day that Nasir requested Vijay Anand to direct Teesri Manzil and offered to helm Baharon Ke Sapne, but specified that Teesri Manzil would not have Dev Anand in it. It was only then that Shammi Kapoor was approached.^[2]

Initially, Nanda was approached to play the female lead in the film. However, she declined the offer, as the role was not glamorous and therefore went against her modern image at the time. Thereafter, Nasir Hussain's frequent collaborator Asha Parekh was signed.

Parekh has revealed that during the shooting of the film, Khanna was introverted and had an inferiority complex as she was a far bigger star than him. It was only after Aradhana (1969) released two years later and Khanna became a superstar, that this tension resolved in their subsequent films together.

Soundtrack

Awards

Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award—Black & White Film--Jal Mistry^[4]

References

• Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 8179910660.

External links

• Baharon Ke Sapne at IMDb