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Aradhana (transl. "Worship") is a 1969 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Shakti Samanta, starring Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna. It won the Filmfare Award for Best Film at the 17th Filmfare Awards. Tagore won her only Filmfare Best Actress Award.[1] Originally released in Hindi[2] and dubbed in Bengali, Aradhana's huge success led to two remakes: the Tamil film Sivagamiyin Selvan (1974)[3] and the Telugu film Kannavari Kalalu (1974).[4] This film is counted among the 17 consecutive hit films of Rajesh Khanna between 1969 and 1971, by adding the two hero films Marayada and Andaz to the 15 consecutive solo hits he gave from 1969 to 1971.[5] Aradhana was a blockbuster in India and the Soviet Union.[6] The theme of the movie was based on the 1946 film To Each His Own.[7]

Aradhana
Poster
Directed by	Shakti Samanta
Written by	Sachin Bhowmick
Produced by	Shakti Samanta
Starring	Sharmila Tagore Rajesh Khanna Sujit Kumar Farida Jalal Abhi Bhattacharya Ashok Kumar
Cinematography	Alok Dasgupta
Edited by	Sahil Budhiraja
Music by	Songs & Background Score S. D. Burman Recordist & Associate Music Director: R.D. Burman Lyrics: Anand Bakshi
Distributed by	Shakti Films
Release date	27 September 1969 (1969-09-27)
Running time	169 minutes
Country	India
Languages	Hindi Bengali
Box office	est. ₹178.5 million (equivalent to ₹7.9 billion or US$98 million in 2020) ($23.62 million)

Plot

In Darjeeling, West Bengal, Indian Air Force officer Arun Varma sings "Mere Sapno Ki Rani" atop an open jeep along with his co-pilot Madan, while Vandana, the daughter of a doctor Gopal Tripathi demurely sneaks glances at him from a mini train. After a brief romance, they wed in a temple without rituals and with only God as a witness. After which it starts raining and they have to stay in a hotel, and sleep with each other. This is where Vandana becomes pregnant.

Soon afterward, Arun dies in an air crash. His family refuses to accept the unwed Vandana since her marriage with Arun was never formalised. Meanwhile, her father also dies, leaving her destitute. Vandana's son is finally born, she puts him up for adoption so that she can legally adopt him the next day but she is forced to let a childless couple adopt him. Determined to be a part of his life, she accepts the responsibility of becoming his nanny. The boy is named Suraj. Her employer's brother-in-law Shyam arrives and lusts for Vandana. He tries to rape her when no one is around, but Suraj arrives and stabs him to death to save Vandana. When the police arrive, Vandana takes the blame for the murder and is arrested while Suraj runs away and forgets this mishap as he grows up.

Several years later, when Vandana is released from jail, she is befriended by the jailor who takes her home and introduces her to his daughter Renu. Vandana comes face to face with Suraj(who looks just like his father) when she discovers that Renu is dating him. Suraj, just like how his father wished, is an air-force officer. He slowly starts remembering that he has seen Vandana somewhere, although Vandana wants to hide the truth as she feels Suraj may be embarrassed upon realising his parents' background and history. Vandana makes herself at home at the jailor's house.

Suraj is injured in an air crash like his real father Arun but survives. While he is recuperating in the hospital, Vandana meets Madan, who knows that Suraj is Arun and Vandana's son. He wants to tell Suraj the truth, but Vandana does not want Suraj to know that he is her son, fearing the consequences. Later when Vandana is not around, Suraj sees her diary where Arun's photo is found. Realising that Arun and Vandana are his true parents, he salutes Vandana's self-sacrificing attitude and acknowledges her publicly as his mother.

Cast

• Sharmila Tagore as Vandana Verma / Vandana Tripathi (Arun's Widow)
• Rajesh Khanna as Flight Lieutenant Arun Verma / Suraj Kumar Verma / Suraj Kumar Saxena (Double Role)
• Sujit Kumar as Air Commodore Madan Verma
• Ashok Kumar as Air Commodore Ganguli (Retd)
• Pahari Sanyal as Gopal Tripathi
• Anita Guha as Mrs. Prasad Saxena
• Abhi Bhattacharya as Ram Prasad Saxena
• Manmohan - Shyam
• Madan Puri as the Jailor
• Asit Sen as Tikaram
• Farida Jalal as Renu Verma (Suraj's Wife)
• Subhash Ghai as Flight Lieutenant Prakash (Suraj's colleague and friend)
• Krishna Kant as Mr. Verma (Arun's Father)

Production

The film was scripted by Sachin Bhowmick. The theme of the movie was based on the 1946 film To Each His Own.[8] A day prior to the shooting of Aradhana, producer Surinder Kapoor showed Samanta his latest film, Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati with Shashi Kapoor as the lead, which was also written by Sachin Bhowmick. Much to his surprise, this film had a similar ending to his own film. The following day, Samanta decided to scrap his film, when writers Gulshan Nanda and Madhusudan Kalelkar visited his office. Upon hearing the issue, it was Gulshan Nanda who suggested to have a double role of father and son in the film. Originally, the first hero was to die by the interval and a new hero was to step in.[9] The same evening, while Aradhana was being cancelled, Nanda recited a story of Kati Patang to Samanta, which he instantly liked, so for the next couple of hours they first rewrote the second half of Aradhana, and subsequently went on to discuss Kati Patang.[10] The "Roop Tera Mastana" song sequence, which lasted more than three minutes and 30 seconds, was filmed in a single take.[11] Sharmila Tagore believes this was done due to time constraints.[12]

Soundtrack

Aradhana
Original LP Cover
Soundtrack album to Aradhana by S. D. Burman, Kishore Kumar & R. D. Burman
Released	1969
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Language	Hindi
Label	EMI Records

The soundtrack of the film was composed by S. D. Burman, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi. Sachin Dev Burman had written the music for the songs of Aradhana with his son, Rahul Dev Burman, and completed the recording of the songs in the voices of Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohd. Rafi and S.D. Burman himself.

In "Roop Tera Mastana", Kersi Lord played the accordion, Homi Mullan played the duggi and Manohari Singh played the saxophone.[13][14][15] This track was also reused in Tamil Remix Version as "Jean Pants" sung by K.S. Chithra and Stylebhai.[16]

Awards

17th Filmfare Awards:[17]

Won

• Best Film – Shakti Samanta
• Best Actress – Sharmila Tagore
• Best Male Playback Singer – Kishore Kumar for "Roop Tera Mastana"

Nominated

• Best Director – Shakti Samanta
• Best Actor – Rajesh Khanna
• Best Supporting Actress – Farida Jalal
• Best Music Director – S. D. Burman
• Best Lyricist – Anand Bakshi for "Mere Sapno Ki Rani"
• Best Story – Sachin Bhowmick

Box office

Aradhana estimated worldwide gross: ₹178.5 million ($23.62 million). Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to ₹11.37 billion in 2017, or ₹13.55 billion (US$170 million) in 2020.

• India: ₹70 million ($9.33 million) in 1969.[18] Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to ₹5.9 billion in 2017.[n 1]

• Soviet Union: 11.85 million Rbls[lower-alpha 1] ($14.29 million,[lower-alpha 2] ₹108.5 million)[lower-alpha 3] in 1972.[20] Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to $84 million (₹5.47 billion) in 2017.

In terms of estimated box office footfalls, it sold 42 million ticket sales in India[lower-alpha 4] and 47.4 million tickets in the Soviet Union,[20] for a combined 89.4 million tickets sold worldwide.

Impact

Aradhana had a large impact on Indians in general. It inspired many to take up films as a vocation, one of them being the popular Indian actor Tom Alter, who confessed in an interview that he headed to Film and Television Institute of India after being impressed watching Rajesh Khanna in Aradhana in 1970.[24][25][26]

Notes

References

External links

• Aradhana at IMDb
• The Aradhna Syndrome

На других языках

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[de] Aradhana

Aradhana (übersetzt: Verehrung, Anbetung) ist ein Bollywoodklassiker von Shakti Samanta und der erfolgreichste Film aus dem Jahr 1969[1]. Der Film ist eine Neuverfilmung des Hollywoodfilms Mutterherz. Für die Rolle der Vandhana erhielt Sharmila Tagore ihre ersten Filmfare Award für die Beste Hauptdarstellerin, so wie auch Olivia de Havilland ihren ersten Oscar für die weibliche Hauptdarstellung erhielt.

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- [en] Aradhana (1969 film)

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[ru] Преданность (фильм, 1969)

«Пре́данность» (хинди आराधना, Aradhana) — индийский кинофильм-мелодрама режиссёра Шакти Саманты. В главных ролях Шармила Тагор и Раджеш Кханна (первый опыт совместной работы этих актёров, после этого они снялись в паре ещё в 6 кассовых хитах). Это ремейк голливудского фильма «Каждому своё» (1946). Шармила Тагор получила свой первый и единственный Filmfare Award за ту же роль, за которую Оливия де Хэвилленд получила свой первый из двух «Оскаров». Снятый в оригинале на языке хинди и дублированный на бенгали, фильм «Преданность» имел огромный успех, и на его основе в 1974 году было выпущено два ремейка: Sivakamiyin Selvan (тамили) и Kannavari Kalalu (телугу). Шармила Тагор играла главную роль во всех трёх версиях. Фильм был выпущен в прокат 29 сентября 1969 года и стал самым кассовым фильмом года. В СССР фильм занял 21-е место по посещаемости среди зарубежных лент в советском кинопрокате[2].

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