Gumrah

Awards

Song Awards:
• 1963 - Filmfare Awards - Best Playback Singer - Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se Ajnabi Ban Jaayein Hum Dono - Mahendra Kapoor

Trivia

Album

• Filmmaker B.R. Chopra had approached Shammi Kapoor first for the role that eventually went to Ashok Kumar. Kapoor declined the offer saying that he couldn't see a character played by him have a wife (played by Mala Sinha) who would have an extra-marital affair with someone like Sunil Dutt.[MR15]
• Ravi was approached for composing the music for this film only after S.D. Burman turned it down.[MR8]
• This film was remade in Malayalam as "Vivahitha" (1970). The Hindi film "Bewafaa" (2005) may also have been adapted from it.[1][2]
• It was speculated that the film's story was inspired by the real-life love story of actors Dilip Kumar and Kamini Kaushal. In order to take care of her nieces, a young Kaushal had married her widower brother-in-law B.S. Sood after her sister Usha died in a car accident. She had a fling with Dilip Kumar in the early years of her film career but eventually parted ways with him to save her marriage.[3][4]

Song

• Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se Ajnabi Ban Jaayein Hum Dono - The lyrics of this song were adapted from the poem "Khoobsurat Mod" published in Sahir Ludhianvi's first book of poetry "Talkhiyan" (1943).[MR5]
• Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se Ajnabi Ban Jaayein Hum Dono - Mahendra Kapoor had to work hard for this award-winning song. He reportedly took 22 takes to perfect it.[5]
• Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se Ajnabi Ban Jaayein Hum Dono - Burjor Lord played the vibraphone in this song.

1. ^ Secret Lives
2. ^ Bewafaa (2005)
3. ^ Gumrah, BR Chopra's tale of a woman's desire that challenged conventions back in 1963
4. ^ "I wasn’t obsessed with the mirror"
5. ^ When filmistan danced to the master's tunes