Savera (1958 film)

1958 film by Satyen Bose

Savera

Written by| Satyen Bose
Produced by| Ruby Sen
Starring| Ashok Kumar
Meena Kumari
Edited by| Dulal Dutta
Music by| Sailesh Mukherjee

Release date

* 1958 (1958)

Running time

| 152 minutes
Language| Hindi

Savera (transl. Morning) is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Satyen Bose starring Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari in lead roles. Music director Sailesh Mukherjee gave the music of the film.

## Plot

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Kundan (Ashok Kumar) is a medical student who is falsely implicated in a murder charge and fails to complete his degree. His neighbor and childhood friend Shanti (Meena Kumari) who Kundan grew up with was married to Kundan at the behest of her mother but they got separated after Kundan took the path of crime. Eventually, Kundan takes the job of a taxi driver and befriends a bunch of criminals. On a trip, he meets with a so-called Swami Poornananda (Bipin Gupta) who is also involved in criminal activities, immediately they befriend. By the end of their train trip they meet with an accident, injuring Swami. Kundan rescues him and takes him to a nearby ashram where Kundan disguises himself as Swami and keeps the injured Swami in his room. Here Kundan meets Shanti who also works in the ashram and identifies him as her husband from a cut in his hand. Shanti helps Kundan in starting afresh and they live happily ever after.

## Cast

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* Ashok Kumar as Kundan
* Meena Kumari as Shanti
* Bipin Gupta as Swami Purnananda
* Leela Mishra
* Keshto Mukherjee
* Bhagwan Sinha
* Kammo
* Samson
* Uma Khosla
* Leela Misra
* Shiela Vaz
* Sarita
* Jagdev
* Mumtaz Begum
* Prem Dhawan
* Ram Lal
* Bhagwan Sinha
* B.N. Banerjee
* Dhumal
* Ramesh Sinha

## Crew

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* Director – Satyen Bose
* Producer – Ruby Sen (Basu Chitra Mandir)
* Dialogues – Govind Moonis
* Screenplay – Satyen Bose
* Cinematography – Madan Sinha
* Music – Sailesh Mukherjee
* Lyrics – Shailendra, Prem Dhawan
* Editing – Dulal Dutta
* Art Direction – Biren Naag
* Playback Singers – Manna Dey, Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt

## Soundtrack

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The film had seven songs in it. The music of the film was composed by Sailesh Mukherjee. Shailendra and Prem Dhawan wrote the lyrics.[1]

Song | Singer

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"Aankh Micholi Khel Rahi"  | Lata Mangeshkar
"O Pardesi Chhora"  | Lata Mangeshkar
"Nadiya Ke Pani"  | Lata Mangeshkar
"Chhupa Chhupi O Chhupi Agad Bagad Jai Re"  | Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey
"Jeevan Ke Raste Hazaar"  | Manna Dey
"Thehro Zara Si Der To"  | Geeta Dutt
"Mane Na Mane Na"  | Geeta Dutt

## References

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1. ^ "Savera (1958)". Hindigeetamala. Retrieved 8 December 2019.

## External links

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* Savera at IMDb

*[transl.]: translation