This review is written by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh
CHAL CHAL RE NAUJAWAN(1944) was actually a land mark film because it was the DEBUT movie for Filmistan, established by people who had left Bombay Talkies. The moviegoers were awaiting their film.
Chal Chal Re Naujawaan was directed by Gyan Mukherjee who also did the story and screenplay. The dialogues were written by the famous Urdu writer Saadat Hassan Manto. One more special feature was that Rafiq Gazanavi, who was a singer and Music Director of repute in later days had acted in this film.
The cast was Ashok kumar, Naseem Banu, Jagadish Sethi, V.H.Desai, Motibai, Navin Yagnik, Rafiq Gazanavi etc.
The story was of friendship and Betrayal in 2 generations.
Thakur Jaipal Singh (Jagdish Sethi) and Jamuna Prasad(Rafiq Gazanavi) are friends, but fall out when Jaipal’s wife Savitri(Motibai) is attracted to Jamuna Prasad’s musical skill. She is called Bewafa and thrown out by Jaipal Singh.
Jaipal’s daughter Sumitra(Naseem Banu-mother of Saira Banu) falls in love with Arjun(Ashok kumar) son of Jamuna Prasad.
Matters clear, but not before Savitri dies in front of Jaipal, who repents.
The film had lot of background voice over, advising that authoritarianism-like Nazis- is not good for mankind, and the country. Some Nationalist songs are also sung by Ashok kumar.
All this however was not very appealing to viewers and the film was proved to be a disappointment, as people were comparing it with Kismet.
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