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Naukri

Saturday, December 8, 2012 11:31:53 AM

Super Star Rajesh Khanna's Naukri - 1978

Introduction :

Naukri is a 1978 Bollywood film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. This Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s not so famous movie but critically acclaimed classic “Naukri” (1978) featuring Super Star Rajesh Khanna and Raj Kapoor together is set in the period 1944-1947. The basic idea of this film is based on the 1955 Tamil Film "Mudhal Thedi" starring Sivaji Ganeshan and Anjali Devi but story and treatment is completely different. The story features a person getting help of an angel after his death. The God Sent person makes the hero realize that when he was alive he was so important and loved by all around him but he couldn’t recognize it. Super Star Rajesh Khanna plays the man who meets the angel Raj Kapoor, after he commits suicide.

The idea of an angel helping a dead person in realising his significance on earth, was also adopted in 2005 film Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!, wherein Shahid Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt play respective roles of Super Star Rajesh Khanna and Raj Kapoor, with Dutt playing modern Yamraj.

Summary :

The film opens up with a distraught tensed up Ranjit watching his mother and his sister and their adopted brother closely. He is wearing a depressing look as he cannot earn and feed his family members properly being a handicapped person. He walks with help of walking stick. He decides that its better to commit suicide and die rather than giving trouble to others and also seeing his family members struggle for survival. His mother loves him a lot although he is limping and jobless. She asks him not to worry and be happy. Their landlord has asked them to vacate the premises the next day. Tension looming around his mind, Ranjit decides to go out early in the morning and jump from the bridge above the railway tracks and give away his life. Ranjit carries out his plan. In the next scenes, he starts walking without help from any stick. He meets a man who calls himself as Captain and he says that he is the only person who can see Ranjith right now. That fat man introduces himself as Swaraj Singh Captain and says that he is a ghost and that Ranjit has died and is now a ghost too. Captain takes him along everywhere and shows him how many other people are roaming as ghosts in the world after committing suicides. Captain says the ghosts attain salvation only when their unfulfilled wish gets fulfilled. Captain asks him why did he commit suicide. Ranjit tells him his story of how he was a badminton player and how rich they were. He had even fell in love with a richer girl. The rest of the story is about Ranjit's description of what drove him to poverty, how were they surviving, how his friends betrayed him and deprived him of any job, how he lost his leg and how much he feels betrayed of his girlfriend leaving him and joining hands with some one else. Captain just keeps listening to his story. The answers to the above question and rest of the story is full of suspense which needs to be seen in the movie directly.
Reception

The film was hit at the box office in 1978.

Star cast :

Super Star Rajesh Khanna - Ranjit Gupta 'Ronu'
Zaheera - Ramola
Raj Kapoor - Swaraj Singh 'Captain'
Nadira - Lily
A. K. Hangal - Ranjit's Father
Pratima Devi - Ranjit's Mother
Tom Alter - Mr. Anderson
Deven Varma - Loco
Jayshree T. - Mary
Meena Roy - Meena
Aarti - Rekha
Master Akbar - Raja
V. Gopal - Landlord
Vijay Sharma - Sanjay
Lalita Kumari - Chandrabadani
Keshto Mukherjee - Hawaldar
Om Shivpuri - Mr. Rai, Ramola's Father
Yunus Parvez - Rasik Lal
Ayathoda
Satya Babu
Muni Raj
Amal Sen
Shubhra Nath
Habiba Rehman
Anju Gupta
Jalil
Siddharth Narayan

Film Crew's :

R. S. J. Productions
Director - Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Story - Salil Chowdhury
Screenplay - Bimal Dutta
Dialogue - Biren Tripathy
Producer - Jayendra Pandya, Rajaram Pandya & Satish Wagle
Production Company - R. S. J. Productions
Editor - Subhash Gupta & Khan Zaman Khan
Cinematographer - Jaywant Pathare
Art Director - Ajit Banerjee
Music Director - Rahul Dev Burman
Lyricist - Anand Bakshi
Playback Singers - Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Mukesh, Kishore Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar
Release date - 2 June 1978
Country - India
Language - Hindi

Film Song Soundtracks :

S.No. Song Title Singers

1) "Duniya Mein Jeene Ka Mujhe Shaukh Tha" - By Kishore Kumar & Manna Dey
2) "Main Ne Tumko Piya Keh Diya" - By Lata Mangeshkar
3) "Teri Duhai Harjaayee" - By Asha Bhosle
4) "Upar Jaake Yaad Aayi Neeche Ki Baatein" - By Mukesh

Video Songs & Lyrics :

1) Song Title : Duniya Mein Jeene Ka Mujhe Shaukh Tha

Singer : Kishore Kumar & Manna Dey
Lyricist :
Music Director : R.D.Burman
Song picturised on Super Star Rajesh Khanna

2) Song Title : Main Ne Tumko Piya Keh Diya

Singer : Lata Mangeshkar
Lyricist :
Music Director : R.D.Burman
Song picturised on Super Star Rajesh Khanna

3) Song Title : Teri Duhai Harjaayee

Singer : Asha Bhosle
Lyricist :
Music Director : R.D.Burman
Song picturised on Super Star Rajesh Khanna

4) Song Title : Upar Jaake Yaad Aayi Neeche Ki Baatein

Singer : Mukesh
Lyricst : Anand Bakshi
Music Director : R.D.Burman
Song picturised on Super Star Rajesh Khanna

Lyrics :

Mu :oopar jaa ke yaad aain niche ki baaten
Honthon pe aain dil ke pichhe ki baaten
Are upar jaa ke ...

(ai hasinon aa_o) -2 meraa dil bahalaa_o
Reshami zulfon ke jaal bichhaa_o
Zindagi se bhi lambi hain ye kaali raaten
Honthon pe aain ...

Ko :i yaa yaa yaa
Mu :(doston dushmanon) -2 gale mil ke zaraa
Chhed do koi kisse dil ke zaraa
Kaun jaane kab hongi phir ye mulaaqaaten
Honthon pe aain ...