Deedar (1951) on Netflix
Dismissed from Daulatram Rai's orchard after a fall injures Rai's daughter Mala, Shamu loses his mother and then his sight. He grows up blind, singing for a living, unable to forget Mala.
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Plot summary
Shamu lives with his widowed mother and works in Daulatram Rai's orchard, where Rai's daughter Mala rides horses with him. When a fall from a horse injures Mala, Rai dismisses Shamu and forbids the two to meet again. Shamu and his mother leave the district; she dies on the way, and the orphaned boy is taken in by young Champa and her uncle. Overcome with grief, Shamu runs off into a sandstorm and loses his eyesight. Champa and her uncle look after him, and in time he earns a living by singing. Champa loves him, but his thoughts stay with Mala, and he hopes to find her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Deedar (1951)
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- After Deedar had a rerun at Mumbai theatres, actor Manoj Kumar took director Raj Khosla to see it; the story of their 1966 film Do Badan was then written by reworking Deedar's storyline, and that film was also a hit.
- Vikram Seth's 1993 novel A Suitable Boy refers to Deedar repeatedly: in the book, people burst into tears while watching the film, and those who cannot get tickets start a riot.
- Deedar's soundtrack was one of the few in which the career of veteran singer Mohammed Rafi coincided with that of his idol, G. M. Durrani.
