Kala Bazar

Awards

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Trivia

Album

• This was the only Hindi film to feature all three Anand brothers, Chetan, Dev, and Vijay, in acting roles. Dev Anand also produced the film and Vijay Anand wrote and directed it.
• The film featured a sequence that used live footage of film personalities arriving at the premiere of "Mother India" (1957). The sequence depicted Dev Anand's character selling tickets to the event in black as the who's who of the Hindi film industry walked into the theatre. The scene featured Nimmi, Nadira, Shammi, Guru Dutt, Geeta Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Ruma Guha, Kumkum, Sohrab Modi, Mohammed Rafi, Mukri, Fearless Nadia, Baby Naaz, Rajendra Kumar, Nawab Khan, Mehboob Khan, Yakub, Raaj Kumar, Naseem Banu, Dilip Kumar, and Nargis, among others.[1]

Song

• Khoya Khoya Chaand Khula Aasman - Shailendra wrote this S.D. Burman song in minutes while on a late-night drive on Bombay's Marine Drive with R.D. Burman.[2]
• Khoya Khoya Chaand Khula Aasman - This song was recreated by Mikey McCleary and sung by Suman Sridhar and used in a much-discussed sequence in the film "Shaitan" (2011).[3]
• Sach Hue Sapne Tere - According to Manohari Singh, this was the first Hindi film song in which he played the saxophone.[4]

1. ^ Mother India (1957)
2. ^ Twitter status - @p1j
3. ^ Khoya Khoya Chand (Shaitan, 2011)
4. ^ In Conversation With Manohari Singh - Dr. Chandrashekhar Rao