Garm Hava

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• This film was adapted from an unpublished short story by Ismat Chughtai. Chughtai had not even written down this story; she had simply narrated it to M.S. Sathyu and Shama Zaidi. The script of this film was Sathyu's second submission to the Film Finance Corporation (FFC). The FFC had rejected his first script.
• This was director M.S. Sathyu's first feature film and remains his most celebrated work. He had previously debuted with the Children's Film Society film "Kala Parvat" (1971). The film was also the writing debut of Sathyu's wife, Shama Zaidi.[1]
• This film was originally titled "Wahan". Its eventual title may have been inspired by "Makaan", a nazm written by the film's lyricist Kaifi Azmi. Kaifi Azmi had recited this nazm in the film "Sone Ki Chidiya" (1958), which was produced and written by Ismat Chughtai and featured Balraj Sahni in a leading role. The nazm, whose opening lines went "Aaj ki raat bahut garm hawa chalti hai / Aaj ki raat na footpath pe neend aayegi / Sab utho main bhi uthoon tum bhi utho tum bhi utho / Koi khidki isi deewaar mein khul jayegi", was filmed on Balraj Sahni.[2]
• The film's debutant cinematographer Ishan Arya also co-produced the film.
• M.S. Sathyu was associated with the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) and chose to cast many actors from IPTA in this film, including Farooq Shaikh, who made his acting debut in it.
• Decades after its initial release, this film was restored and re-screened in theatres in 2014.
• This was the only Hindi film of Badar Begum, who played the role of the mother of Balraj Sahni's character in this film. Her role had initially been offered to singer Begum Akhtar who had turned it down. Sathyu and cinematographer Ishan Arya had come upon Badar Begum when they were scouting an Agra brothel for nautch girls - she was the owner of the brothel. Badar Begum's lines in the film were dubbed by actress Dina Pathak.[3]
• This was Balraj Sahni's last significant film. He died the day after he finished dubbing his lines for this film.
• This film was held up by the Censor Board for several months. It was eventually cleared after M.S. Sathyu showed the film to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Information & Broadcasting Minister I.K. Gujral. However, on their suggestion, the film was first released in the South before it was released in other parts of the country.
• Since M.S. Sathyu did not have the budget for recording equipment, the film was shot without audio. The voices and location sounds were dubbed in later.
• The Hindustani classical sarod player Ustad Bahadur Khan composed the background score for this film.

1. ^ Kala Parvat (1971)
2. ^ Sone Ki Chidiya (1958)
3. ^ Winds of change