Ek Ke Baad Ek
Poster
Directed byRaja Rishi
Written byG.D. Madgulkar, Umesh Mathur (dialogues)
Screenplay byDhruva Chatterjee
Produced byRaj Kala
StarringDev Anand
Sharada
Tarla Mehta
Radhakrishan
Hiralal
S. K. Prem
Madhu Apte
CinematographyG. Kale
Edited byR. V. Shrikhanda
Music byS. D. Burman
Production
company
Raj Kala Productions
Distributed byRaj Kala Productions
Release date
1960
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Ek Ke Baad Ek (transl. One after the other) is a 1960 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Raja Rishi.[1] The film stars Dev Anand, Sharada and Tarla Mehta.[2]

Plot

Mangal (S. K. Prem) lives with his wife Laxmi (Tarla), their six children and his younger brother Prakash (Dev Anand). Mangal has taken a loan from a local moneylender for Prakash's college education. Mangal's poverty is so bad that he sells his sixth child's bed to buy a blanket. Soon, Laxmi dies during delivery of the seventh child due to weakness of bearing so many children.. Meanwhile, Prakash becomes well-educated with a modern outlook and a reformist attitude, he confronts his brother every now and then with hard truths of life. Mangal calls Prakash an iconoclast and asks him to leave the house. This affects the lives of Prakash and his girlfriend Sandhya (Sharada). Her father Gangu Teli (Radhakrishan), a small time businessman, does not approve of their marriage. Prakash loses his cool when he finds his nephews and nieces begging for a living. He then immediately takes up a job in a printing press owned by Lalaji (Prabhu Dayal) who promotes family planning and other social issues. After obtaining the advance, Prakash arranges food and clothes for his kin, using Sandhya as the go-between. After Mangal loses his job he requests Gangu Teli to take him to the temple priest, Sanatan (Hiralal) with a request for advance, who while saying he is helpless appeals to the assembly to help him with whatever they can spare. Accepting the money was like begging, This invokes Mangal's conscience and he rushes back home. Sanatan and Gangu teli incites everyone that children are the gift of God and ask s Prakash to leave the area propagating family planning but the people start thrashing him. Mangal cannot face his brother commits suicide by consuming poison. He convinces, Sanatan, Gangu teli and all the people that he is not against bearing children but limiting to two children to take care of them financially too. Finally Prakash and Sandhya get married and take responsibility of Mangal's children and not having their own.

Cast

Adapted from The Hindu.[2]

  • Dev Anand as Prakash
  • Sharada as Sandhya
  • Tarla Mehta as Laxmi (Mangal's wife)
  • Radhakrishan as Gangu Teli (Sandhya's Father)
  • Hiralal as Sanatan (Temple priest)
  • S. K. Prem as Mangal (Prakash's Brother)
  • Prabhu Dayal as Lalaji (Printing press owner)
  • Madhu Apte as Gangu's servant

Soundtrack

Ek Ke Baad Ek
Soundtrack album by
S. D. Burman
Released1960
LabelHMV
ProducerS. D. Burman

The music was composed by S. D. Burman while Kaifi Azmi wrote the lyrics.[3][4] On the album, film critic Suresh Kohli of The Hindu noted that except for "Chali Yeh Fauj Humari" and "Thumak Thumak Chali Hai", the other songs were "not really hummable".[2]

All lyrics are written by Kaifi Azmi; all music is composed by S. D. Burman

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Aao Yaro Aao Pyaro Dekho"Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle3:25
2."Chali Yeh Fauj Humari"Mohammed Rafi3:21
3."Haath Pasare Raste Raste"Geeta Dutt, Sudha Malhotra3:19
4."Na Tel Aur Na Bati"Manna Dey3:09
5."Pagli Hawa Jane Re"Asha Bhosle3:17
6."Thumak Thumak Chali Hai"Mohammed Rafi3:21
7."Batao Kya Karungi"Mohammed Rafi, Geeta Dutt3:17
8."Nazar milayi toh duniya se darna kya"Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhonsle 

Reception

Kohli wrote that the film "was a well-intended message-laden story with a weak, confused screenplay attempting to cash on Anand’s newly formed stardom." The film did not do well at the box office.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (PDF). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-563579-5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kohli, Suresh (12 July 2012). "Ek Ke Baad Ek (1960)". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Ek Ke Baad Ek (1960)". Hindigeetmala.net. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Original Soundtrack — Ek Ke Baad Ek". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
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