Aah (1953)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Raja Nawathe

Writers:

Inder Raj Anand (dialogue)
Inder Raj Anand (photoplay)

Release Date:

22 March 1974 (India)

Genre:

Musical | Romance | Drama | Family

Plot:

Allahabad-based Raj Raibahadur lives a wealthy lifestyle with his widowed businessman dad. His mom had passed away...

Cast

Nargis	...	Neelu / Chandra / Reshma Rai
Raj Kapoor	...	Raj Raibahadur
Vijayalaxmi	...	Chandra Rai (as Vijay Laxmi)
Pran	...	Dr. Kailash
Ramesh Sinha
Bhupendra Kapoor		(as Bhupendrakapur)
Leela Mishra	...	Mrs. Rai (as Leela Misra)
Rashid Khan	...	Dr. Yusuf
Sohanlal
Kusum
Mukesh	...	Carriage Driver

Also Known As:

Aah! (India: Hindi title) (alternative spelling)
Avan (India: Tamil title) (dubbed version)
Premalekhalu (India: Telugu title) (dubbed version)

Runtime:

150 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

India:U

Filming Locations:

R.K. Studios, Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

R.K. Films Ltd.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002)

Soundtrack:

Sunte The Naam

Good love-story film!

If Raj (Raj Kapoor) had his way, he would have been a poet, not the engineer that circumstances made him into. The perfection of nature fascinated him more than the nature of mechanical things. One day Raj is sent to work at the Saraswati Dam, the exquisitely beautiful location. As Raj reveled in his new found paradise, his father visits him and tells him about his deceased mother's wish that Raj should marry Chandra (Vijay Laxmi), the sophisticated daughter of a rich family friend. On his father's insistence, Raj agrees to write to Chandra. The letter is sheer poetry, but it's beauty completely wasted on Chandra who wants to ignore it. Neelu (Nargis), her teenage sister, moved by the writer's eloquence and sincerity, acknowledges the letter on her behalf. Neelu's reply sparks off a correspondence and then circumstances that lead Neelu and Raj falling deeply in love. Just when it seems that they will live happily ever after, Raj is diagnosed suffering from TB, a disease that killed his mother. A shocked Raj decides that he loves Neelu too much to commit her to an uncertain future and deceives her into believing that he actually loves Chandra. Does Neelu ever find out Raj's selfless love for her? Will the two lovers be united again? Aah is an early Raj Kapoor classic, a poignant love story which includes one of Mukesh/s finest renditions "Chhoti Si Zindagani" pictured on Mukesh himself as a "tongawallah", carting an ailing Raj Kapoor.