Prem Bandhan (1979 film)

*Prem Bandhan*
Prem Bandhan
	Laxmikant Pyarelal; Anand Bakshi (lyrics)
Release date	January 19, 1979
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Prem Bandhan (transl. The bond of love) is a 1979

Laxmikant Pyarelal. This film, along with Amar Deep, marked the comeback of Rajesh Khanna, as these were his commercially successful films after none of his films became huge hits at the box office throughout 1978, with the exception of Bhola Bhala. The news magazine "The Indian" noted that "Rajesh Khanna makes a sincere attempt to recover his popularity as a "superstar" and succeeds. He gives naturally touching performance".^[2]

The story revolves around the adventures of Rajesh Khanna after he suffers from amnesia post accident and falls in love with and marries a fisher woman, whereas his sophisticated city-bred girlfriend waits for him in the city. The film has the popular song of the 1979 Main Tere Pyar Mein Pagal sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar.[3] Kishore Kumar delivers his best vocals in the song. The movie is a remake of Harano sur - an Uttam kumar super hit - 1957

Plot summary

Adivasi Mahua lives a poor lifestyle in a fishing village along with her widowed father. One day, the local

Bombay

address. Mahua travels to Bombay and locates Kishan's house. This is where she will find out that Kishan now calls himself Mohan Khanna, is wealthy, lives in a mansion but who now refuses to recognize her, and is about to become formally engaged to equally wealthy Meena Mehra.

Cast

Rajesh Khanna as Kishan/Mohan Khanna
Rekha as Mahua
Moushami Chatterji as Meena Mehra
Vikram as Dr. Vinod, Chanda's fiancée
Braham Bhardawaj as Senior doctor
Janki Dass as Rodrigues, Khanna Enterprises' accountant
Javed Khan as Eve teaser
Birbal as Bhelpuri vendor
Helen
Master Bhagwan
Keshto Mukherjee
Prema Narayan
A. K. Hangal
Lalita Pawar
Om Shivpuri
Chandru Atma
Arvind Trivedi as Mahua's father
Rippy Singh as Chanda

Crew

Director – Ramanand Sagar
Producer – R. R. Nanda
Production Company – Gauri Films
Editor – Lachhmandass
Music Director – Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Lyricist – Anand Bakshi
Playback Singers – Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar

Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi; all music is composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Hoti Hai Kisise Jab Preet"	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Pankaj	8:20
2.	"Main Tere Pyar Mein Pagal"	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar	6:30
3.	"Meri Payal Mein Yeh"	Asha Bhosle	5:40
4.	"Wada Nahin Karte Kisi Se"	Lata Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor, Chorus	9:20

Reception

This film received three and a half stars in the Bollywood guide Collections. The film grossed 3,50,00,000 at the box office in 1979. It was a hit movie which ran silver jubilee at many centers

References

External links

Prem Bandhan at
IMDb

[1] Rajesh Khanna filmography on ibosnetwork.com

[2] Prem Bandhan info

[3] "Binaca Geet Mala Annual List 1979".

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