Kismet (1943 film)
- Ashok Kumar: Shekhar
- Mumtaz Shanti Rani
- Shah Nawaz:
- Moti:
- P. F. Pithawala: Rani's father
- Chandraprabha: Leela
- V. H. Desai:
- Kanu Roy:
- Jagannath Aurora:
- S. Prahlad:
- Harun:
- Mubarak:
- David Abraham:
- Kumari Kamala:
Kismet (Hindi: किस्मत kismat ) is a Hindi film directed by Gyan Mukherjee in the year 1943, he was the most successful Indian film of the 1940s..
Action
The pickpocket Shekhar is released for the third time out of prison and goes back to his old job. He makes friends with an old man who once owned a theater and who is the father of the famous singer Rani. In a fit of greed he had made them dance to exhaustion and they made so crippled. Now she is employed and is in debt by Indrajit, the new owner of the theater.
Shekhar tries to steal the jewelry of Indrajit's wife and is thereby surprised by the police. On the run, he hides in the house of Rani. They fall in love and Shekhar brings Rani in a new zest for life and new energy to their careers, which is currently in the low point. Shekhar wants to raise the money to make Rani heal from their disability.
When Rani one day wearing a stolen by Shekhar at Indrajit necklace, it eventually comes to Shekhar's arrest. He escapes the police again. Rani is unhappy, what Shekhar regretted his act. To redress he decides only one offense for Rani to commit. He breaks again in Indrajit's house and steals money, which is needed for Ranis treatment. Then he disappears from her life.
Shekhar is overtaken by the law. Blind with rage Indrajit has rushed the police on him and Shekhar is back in jail. He escapes his punishment, because it turns out at the trial that Shekhar is long -lost son Indrajit. His "new" brother sister Lila Rani Mohan may marry whom he had made pregnant.
At the end of all the protagonists are happily united in the family of the patriarch Indrajit.
Music
The lyrics to music by Anil Biswas wrote Pradeep. Singers are Parul Ghosh, Arun Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti.
Background
For the producers Sashadhar Mukerji Kismet was after Kangan (1939 ), Bandhan (1940 ), Jhoola (1941 ) and Naya Sansar ( 1941), the fifth major commercial success in a row. The evolving after the death of Himansu Rai dispute between Devika Rani Mukerji and Sashadhar for leadership of the Bombay Talkies production company escalated so completely. Sashadhar and its production unit to the director Gyan Mukherjee broke out and he started from the gains from Kismet 's own production company Filmistan.
A contemporary review in February 1943 in the magazine "Film India" condemned the film as an imitation of John Cromwell's Algiers in 1938 and held the glorification of crime for a bad influence on the younger generation.
Kismet ran 192 weeks continuously in the same movie in Kolkata - a record that was only 32 years later broken by Sholay.