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{{Infobox film
| name = Bawre Nain
| image = Bawre Nain.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Kidar Nath Sharma]]
| producer = [[Kidar Nath Sharma]]
| writer = [[Akhtar Mirza]] (story)<br />[[Kidar Nath Sharma]] (dialogue, screenplay)
| starring = [[Raj Kapoor]]<br />[[Geeta Bali]]
| music = [[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]]
| cinematography = {{Plainlist|
* [[Machve Dada]]
* [[Laxman Kapur]]
* [[T. N. Shah]]
}}
| editing = [[Prabhakar Gokhale]]
| distributor =
| released = 1950
| runtime = 138 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = Hindi
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Bawre Nain''''' ("Impassioned Eyes") is a [[Bollywood films of 1950|1950]] Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[romance film]] directed by [[Kidar Nath Sharma]].<ref name="Sharma">{{cite book |last=Sharma |first=Kidar |year=2002 |title=The one and lonely Kidar Sharma |edition=1st |publisher=Bluejay Books |location=India |isbn=81-87075-96-1}}</ref> It was produced under the Ambitious Pictures banner at Shree Sound Studios. For the music, Sharma persisted with music director [[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]], in spite of several demands from film distributors to have him removed following his failure as a composer in an earlier film, ''[[Neki Aur Badi (1949 film)|Neki Aur Badi]]'' (1949).<ref name=VittalBhattacharjee /> The music became popular and is stated to be the reason for the film's success.<ref name=Desai /> One of the noteworthy songs that popularised playback singer [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] was "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin", composed in Raga Darbari Kaanada.<ref name="Anantharaman">{{cite book |author=Ganesh Anantharaman |title=Bollywood Melodies: A History of the Hindi Film Song |publisher=Penguin Books India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmrSLuBwbKkC&pg=PA58 |date=January 2008 |page=58 |isbn=978-0-14-306340-7}}</ref><ref name=Bharatan /> ''Bawre Nain'' is cited as Roshan's "first big hit" as a music composer.<ref name="GulazāraChatterjee2003">{{cite book |author1=Gulazāra |author2=Saibal Chatterjee |year=2003 |chapter=Biography-Roshan |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema |publisher=Popular Prakashan |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT610 |pages=615– |isbn=978-81-7991-066-5}}</ref>

The film starred [[Raj Kapoor]], [[Geeta Bali]], Vijayalaxmi, Prakash, Darpan, Pessi Patel, Jaswant and [[Cuckoo Moray|Cuckoo]].<ref name="Nanda2002">{{cite book |author=Ritu Nanda |year=2002 |chapter=Filmography-Raj Kapoor |title=Raj Kapoor: Speaks |publisher=Penguin Books India |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FnyaW9L6cKYC&pg=PP198 |pages=198– |isbn=978-0-670-04952-3}}</ref> Both Raj Kapoor and Geeta Bali were Sharma discoveries, with Raj Kapoor's first film being Sharma's ''Neel Kamal'' and Geeta Bali's ''Sohaag Raat''.<ref name="Tribune">{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Jaswant |title=Life of a producer-director-script writer and lyricist |agency=Spectrum, The Tribune |newspaper=The Tribune |issue=Sunday Spectrum |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020602/spectrum/book9.htm |access-date=6 November 2016 |date=2 June 2002}}</ref>

The film was a success and is cited as a "classic", with special mention for Sharma's "exceptionally worded lyrics". Roshan's music, with songs like "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke" became a favourite with "millions", starting him on "a glorious career".<ref name="Ausaja2009">{{cite book |author=S. M. M. Ausaja |year=2009 |title=Bollywood in Posters |publisher=Om Books International |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXLFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1950 |isbn=978-81-87108-55-9}}</ref>

==Plot==
Chand lives in a small rural town in India. He is unable to pay the rent, and his landlord evicts him. He re-locates to another town and meets with a young woman named Tara. Both are attracted to each other. Chand is unable to secure employment in this town, and moves elsewhere. Tara waits for several months, but does not hear anything from him. So she decides to go and look for him, hoping to re-kindle her love. She is shocked and surprised to find him with an attractive woman named Rajni, who claims that Chand is her betrothed and both are to get married soon.

==Review and reception==
Meghnad Desai, in his book "Pakeezah" described it as "a very thin story is used to drape stunning melodies" composed by music director Roshan.<ref name="Desai">{{cite book |author=Meghnad Desai |year=2013 |chapter=Music |title=Pakeezah |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgKNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT57 |pages=57– |isbn=978-93-5116-023-6}}</ref> According to Ausaja, Geeta Bali "received rave review for her performance as a village belle", and "the music of this film made it a classic", with the song "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke" becoming "a hit of millions".<ref name=Ausaja2009 />

The reviewer in the Motion Picture Magazine (November 1950) published in India, lamented the endless use by film-makers of the "boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets/loses-girl formula". He termed it "a vicious little circle" with no "avenue of escape from it". The "hackneyed theme", with "stark raving melodrama" and too many coincidences, was described as a disappointment from someone of Kidar Sharma's stature, who had earlier made the praise-worthy ''[[Jogan (film)|Jogan]]'' (1950). Geeta Bali's performance was written as her best so far, with Raj Kapoor being just satisfactory. The music director Roshan came in for special mention for composing "lilting" songs.<ref name="MPmag">{{cite web |title=Bawre Nain -Review |publisher=hindi-films-songs.com |url=http://hindi-films-songs.com/books/Motion-Picture-Magazine-November-1950.pdf |access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref> Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, authors of the book ''Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema'', called the film an "extraordinary melodrama distinguished by Geeta Bali's innovative acting."<ref name="ARPW">{{cite book |last1=Rajadhyaksha |first1=Ashish |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |year=1998 |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema |orig-year=First published 1994 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |url=https://indiancine.ma/texts/indiancine.ma%3AEncyclopedia_of_Indian_Cinema/text.pdf |isbn=019-563579-5}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Raj Kapoor]] as Chand
* [[Geeta Bali]] as Tara
* [[Vijay Laxmi]] as Rajni
* [[Jaswant]]
* [[Pesi Patel]]
* Manju as Gangu
* [[Reena Roy#Early life and background|Sharda H. Rai]]
* [[Bankey]]
* Nazira
* Prakash
* Siraj
* [[Syed Ishrat Abbas|Darpan]]
* Kanta
* [[Cukoo|Cuckoo]]

==Casting==
[[Raj Kapoor]] was given a break by Kidar Sharma when he hired him as an assistant director. Sharma then went on to create "highly stylized romantic characters" for him. Kapoor's first was his debut role in ''[[Neel Kamal (1947 film)|Neel Kamal]]'' (1947), opposite [[Madhubala]]. The second was ''Bawre Nain''.<ref name="Patel2016">{{cite book |author=Bhaichand Patel |year=2016 |title=Bollywood's Top 20: Superstars of Indian Cinema |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6yQYcxZ8wmsC&pg=PT91 |page=91 |isbn=978-81-8475-598-5}}</ref>

[[Geeta Bali]] was a discovery of Sharma's, who describes meeting her and her family in lowly circumstances while a young teenager in his book The One And Lonely Kidar Sharma. He cast Bali in her debut film and repeated her as the girl searching for her beloved in Bawre Nain.<ref name=Sharma />

Vijayalaxmi played the role of Rajni, a "modern" educated girl; the sort of character utilised to showcase the "vamp" in Hindi films of that time.<ref name="SommyaJigna">{{cite book |author1=Bhawana Sommya |author2=Kothari Jigna |author3=Supriya Madangarli |title=Mother Maiden Mistress: Women In Hindi Cinema,1950-2010 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dtec0Ykfo1sC&pg=PA1932 |date=17 April 2012 |isbn=978-93-5029-485-7}}</ref>

==Music==
[[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]]'s entry as a music director was with Sharma's 1949 film ''[[Neki Aur Badi (1949 film)|Neki Aur Badi]]'' (1949). However, despite the "nightmarish debut as a composer", Sharma retained him to compose the music for ''Bawre Nain''. This, according to Vittal and Bhattacharjee was done against the wishes of the film distributors who had offered to increase their price to Rs. 25,000 per territory if Sharma dropped Roshan and took anyone else as the composer. Sharma refused to accept the offer and continued with Roshan.<ref name="VittalBhattacharjee">{{cite book |author1=B Vittal |author2=A Bhattacharjee |year=2015 |title=Gaata Rahe Mera Dil: 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChTmCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT116 |page=116 |isbn=978-93-5136-457-3}}</ref>

[[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]]'s varying tonal effects and soothing quality was put to good use in the song "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin", which was composed in Raag Darbari Kaanada. It effectively captured the "mood of the song".<ref name="Bharatan">{{cite book |author=Raju Bharatan |year=2010 |title=A Journey Down Melody Lane |publisher=Hay House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WnxABAAAQBAJ&pg=PT14 |page=14 |isbn=978-93-81398-05-0}}</ref> This song is cited to have helped Mukesh "grow" as a singer, while becoming popular as a playback singer for Raj Kapoor in his films such as ''[[Awaara (1951 film)|Awaara]]'' (1951) and ''[[Shree 420]]'' (1955).<ref name=Anantharaman />

[[Shamshad Begum]]'s versatility as a singer, according to Ranade, was matched only by [[Asha Bhosle]] in later days. In the song "Ichak Bichak Bhurr" Shamshad brought out a high-pitched trill on the word "bhurr", while in another part she had "two consecutive trills, one octave apart" in quick succession.<ref name="Ranade">{{cite book |author=Ashok Damodar Ranade |year=2006 |title=Hindi Film Song: Music Beyond Boundaries |publisher=Bibliophile South Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI1wqkWsIjYC&pg=PA262 |page=262 |isbn=978-81-85002-64-4}}</ref>

[[Rajkumari Dubey|Rajkumari]]'s rendition of "Sun Bairi Balam Sach Bol Re" was another popular number from the film, matching Geeta Bali's "on-screen zest".<ref name="Anantharaman" />

[[Mohammed Rafi]] and [[Asha Bhosle]] had a duet with the song "Mohabbat Ke Maaron Ka Haal".<ref name="Dev2015">{{cite book |author=Sujata Dev |year=2015 |title=Mohammed Rafi Voice of a Nation |publisher=Om Books International |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noAyCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85 |page=85 |isbn=978-93-80070-97-1}}</ref>

The lyricist was Kidar Sharma himself, with Anantharaman citing two duets which were exemplary. The first was "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke", sung by Mukesh and Geeta Dutt. The other was "Sun Bairi Balam Sach Bol Re", by Raj Kumari and Mukesh, which was also Raj Kumari's "biggest hit" in this film.<ref name=Anantharaman />

==Soundtrack==
Song list:<ref name="hindigeetmala">{{cite web |title=Bawre Nain |publisher=hindigeetmala.net |url=http://www.hindigeetmala.net/movie/bawre_nain.htm |access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Track # !! Song !! Singer(s)!! Lyricist
|-
| 1
| "Kyun Mere Dil Mein Dard Basaya"
| [[Rajkumari]]
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 2
| "Mere Roothe Huye Chanda"
| Rajkumari
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 3
| "Mohabbat Ke Maaron Ka Haal"
| [[Mohammed Rafi]], [[Asha Bhosle]]
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 4
| "Mujhe Sach-Sach Bata Do"
| [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], Rajkumari
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 5
| "Ghir Ghir Ke Aasmaan Par"
| Rajkumari
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 6
| "Ichak Beechak Ghurr"
| Shamshad Begum
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 7
| "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahi"
| Mukesh
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 8
| "Sun Bairi Baalam Sach Bol Re"
| Rajkumari
| Kidar Sharma
|-
| 9
| "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke Is Tarah"
| [[Geeta Dutt]], Mukesh
| Kidar Sharma
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0042233|title=Bawre Nain}}

[[Category:1950 films]]
[[Category:1950s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1950s romance films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Roshan]]
[[Category:Hindi-language romance films]]
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian romance films]]

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