Do Ankhen Barah Haath

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Trivia

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• Filmmaker V. Shantaram, who also played the lead role in this film, got his eyes injured while shooting the bullfighting sequence in this film. He feared that he would lose his eyesight and not be able to make films again. According to him, he also experienced life more vividly during the days his eyes were covered by bandages that rendered him visionless. It was this experience that Shantaram wanted to share with the audience through his film "Navrang" (1959).[1]
• The film was based on a real-life experiment conducted by Maurice Frydman in the princely state of Aundh, India in the 1940s. Frydman was a Polish Jew who came to India as a refugee and embraced Hinduism. He became close to the Raja of Aundh who gave him permission to run an open prison - a prison with minimum supervision of its inmates. When V. Shantaram decided to make a film on this experiment, he asked Frydman to come on board as a technical advisor. Frydman agreed to help Shantaram but refused to be credited. When Shantaram insisted, Frydman threatened to file an injunction to stop the film's release if he was credited in it! The film opened with the following message - "Almost twenty years ago, in a small state of India, an idealist started on a great experiment. His task was as difficult as of converting a beast into a human being. People called him a lunatic; but he, undaunted, stuck to his faith. With his very life in one hand and the flag of his ideal in the other, he marched ahead. The story of this motion picture is based on his real experiences.". The message was also displayed in Hindi.
• Like in all V. Shantaram productions, the opening credits of this film were presented in a unique style reflecting the film's theme. The film opened with a shot of twelve hands placed palms down. A frame displaying credits was revealed as each hand was lifted.
• The film was remade in Tamil as "Pallandu Vaazhga" (1975) and in Telugu as "Maa Daivam" (1976).
• This was the first Indian film to win a Golden Globe award. It was a winner of the Samuel Goldwyn International Award instituted by the Golden Globes.

Song

• Ae Malik Tere Bande Hum (Male) - This was the only Hindi film song in which filmmaker V. Shantaram was credited as a singer.
• Saiyan Jhoothon Ka Bada Sartaj Nikla - Vasant Desai used toy instruments - a ravan hathha and a drum cart - to record this song. He did so in order to render a song which was true to the film sequence in which it was used.[MR6]

1. ^ Navrang (1959)