Manzil

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Trivia

Album

• This film was released many years after its making. It was shot in the early 1970s, its audio records were issued in 1977 and the film was released in 1979.
• This film was adapted from Mrinal Sen's award-winning Bengali film "Akash Kusum" (1965), starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Aparna Sen.
• The next time Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi Chatterjee worked together was around forty years after this film - for "Piku" (2015). They did make guest appearances in the film "Pet Pyar Aur Paap" (1984) in between.[1][2]
• The film opened with Amitabh Bachchan's character appearing to aggressively follow the character played by Moushumi Chatterjee. He overtakes her eventually. Moushumi sees him later performing a song at the house of the friend she is visiting and finds out that Amitabh is an invitee there. Similar sequences - of the heroine suspecting the hero of following her and finding out later that both had the same destination - were used in other films as well. One, featuring Dev Anand and Shakila, was used in "C.I.D." (1956) and another, featuring Dev Anand and Nanda, was the first scene in "Teen Devian" (1965). This theme had a real-life precedent in the film industry. While on her way to the recording studio for "Ziddi" (1948), Lata Mangeshkar suspected a man of following her. Little did she know that the man was Kishore Kumar, on his way to the same studio to record his first-ever duet with her. Her concerns were put to ease when music director Khemchand Prakash introduced them at the studio.[3][4][5][MR7]

Song

• Rimjhim Gire Sawan (Female) - The filming of this iconic romantic rain song in unsupervised locations was a last-minute decision since it was not possible to shoot it on sets. Director Basu Chatterjee let Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi Chatterjee improvise, and the crew went from location to location filming the song in some of the most well-known landmarks of Bombay. It was Amitabh's brother Ajitabh who drove the actors from one location to the next. Since the actors weren't very well-known at the time, the crew managed to finish shooting at each location quickly before the crowds realised what was happening. The torrential rains meant that Moushumi's makeup and her saree were running colour throughout the filming.[6]
• Rimjhim Gire Sawan (Female) - A cover version of this song was recorded by Rochak Kohli for the film "Music Teacher" (2019). The cover was a duet sung by Papon and Shreya Ghoshal.[7]
• Tum Ho Mere Dil Ki Dhadkan - This song was adapted from the hit debut single, "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (1967), by the British rock band Procol Harum.[8]

1. ^ Piku (2015)
2. ^ Pet Pyar Aur Paap (1984)
3. ^ C.I.D. (1956)
4. ^ Teen Devian (1965)
5. ^ Ziddi (1948)
6. ^ The stories behind five of the best rain songs in Hindi cinema
7. ^ Rimjhim Gire Sawan (Music Teacher, 2019)
8. ^ A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum