Sailaab

Sailaab is a Hindi movie directed by Indian film director Guru Dutt in 1956.

Released in April 1956, it stars Geeta Bali, as Kanchan and Abhi Bhattacharya as Gautam. Smriti Biswas, Helen and Bipin Gupta also costar.

The film was produced by Guru Dutt's wife, Geeta Dutt's brother, Mukul Roy. The movie bombed at the box-office and as a result, Geeta Dutt had to declare personal bankruptcy.

Plot

Gautam (Abhi Bhattacharya), a rich young man goes to Assam to visit his father’s tea plantation. The plane in which Gautam is travelling is forced to make an emergency landing due to bad weather. Gautam gets hurt and suffers from amnesia. He falls in love with a young woman Kanchan (Geeta Bali) who responds to him even though she is part of a religious community that doesn’t allow its members to marry. Gautam’s father takes him back to Calcutta. Gautam’s mother dies and the shock of her death brings back Gautam’s memory. But as his memory returns he forgets Kanchan. Kanchan comes to Calcutta in search of Gautam and sees that he fails to recognize her. She returns to her community deciding to renounce the world. In time Gautam is able to recollect his association with her and he goes after her to Assam. The lovers are reunited.

Sailaab (TV series)

Sailaab is an Indian television series that was directed by Ravi Rai and was broadcast on Zee TV from 1995 to 1998.

Synopsis

Shivani (Renuka Shahane) and Rohit (Sachin Khedekar) love each other. However, Rohit is not professionally established. Shivani's guardian, her older brother, does not approve of their relationship and arranges her marriage with someone else, emotionally blackmailing her to comply. When the former lovers meet after a few years, both are married to other people. Their love for each other is as strong as ever, and they start seeing each other often, though in a platonic way.

Cast

Music

The title track is called 'Apni Marzi Se'. It was composed by Talat Aziz and sung by renowned ghazal singer, Jagjit Singh. The title track became very popular.

References

Sailaab (1990 film)

Sailaab is a Bollywood suspense thriller film of 1990 directed by Deepak Balraj Vij, starring Aditya Pancholi and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles.

Saroj Khan won the Filmfare Best Choreography Award for Madhuri's dance for the song "Humko Aaj Kal Hai Intezaar". The song also features in "Top 10 songs of Madhuri Dixit" published by Times of India. It's a remake of the Tamil film Kan Simittum Neram.

Plot

Dr. Sushma Malhotra (Madhuri Dixit) treats her patient Krishna (Aditya Pancholi), who has lost his memory in some accident. For the care she takes, Krishna falls in love with her and then they get married. In another accident while taking photographs, Krishna falls down and hurts his head. This injury brings back his old memories. To Sushma's surprise, the old memories bring in something unexpected which results in Krishna trying to kill his wife Sushma.

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