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Zindagi Zindagi (transl. Life, Life) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language romance film directed by Tapan Sinha. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Deb Mukherjee, Waheeda Rehman, Farida Jalal and Ashok Kumar. The film revolves around life in a village hospital and has casteism as an issue at its core. It had an excellent soundtrack by S. D. Burman, which fetched him a National Award for Best Music. It is a remake of Sinha's 1959 Bengali hit Khoniker Atithi.

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Zindagi Zindagi
Poster
Directed by	Tapan Sinha
Produced by	Nariman Irani
Starring	Sunil Dutt Deb Mukherjee Waheeda Rehman Farida Jalal Ashok Kumar
Music by	S. D. Burman
Production company	Nariman Films
Release date	1972
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Sypnosis

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This movie revolves around a village hospital that was built by a generous hearted man, Choudhury Ramprasad who is also a patient in the hospital. The other patients include Isamil, Dayaram, Ratan, and the doctor is Dr. Sunil. Amongst the patient is a singer, who loves Shyama a worker in the hospital. When Meeta Sharma comes to the hospital to admit her son, she meets Sunil who she loved during college days but her uncle and aunt reject their marriage due to casteism and gets Meeta married to Brahmin Engineer who dies in a railway accident leaving Meeta with a five year old child Babu who becomes paralytic due to a fall from a staircase. In the background of the hospital atmosphere is an election in the village, which is proceeding smoothly, but causing a disturbance is Ramprasad's son Shiv Prasad. Ramprasad wins the election but on his death bed. Sunil gets Babu successfully operated but is unable to walk due to no confidence. Ratan a TB patient recovers and leaves the hospital with Shyama a hospital worker to get married. Shiv Prasad instigates everyone about an affair between Sunil and Meeta which is solved after a quarrel. Dr Sunil gets the confidence of Babu with the help of other children, who coax him to run around playfully, finally Babu starts walking and Meeta relents to an urging Dr Sunil to join him in the hospital services, so that both can raise Babu to be a doctor

Cast

• Sunil Dutt as Dr. Sunil Singh
• Waheeda Rehman as Meeta Sharma
• Ramesh Deo as Shiv Prasad (Ram's son)
• Jalal Agha as Ratan (ex-soldier)
• Chaaya Devi as Mrs. Singh, Sunil's mother
• Anwar Hussain as Patient Dayaram
• Iftekhar as Patient Ismail
• Farida Jalal as Shyama (Hospital Worker)
• Ashok Kumar as Ram Prasad (Hospital benefactor / Patient / Politician / Shiv's father)
• Deb Mukherjee as Heera (Patient / Singer)
• Mrinal Mukherjee as Compounder Kishore
• Nasir Khan as Principal Dr. Mukherjee
• Sameer Roy as Loknath (Social Activist)
• Ruby Meyers as Senior Matron
• Mukri as Ramu (Dr. Sunil's servant)
• Gajanan Jagirdar as Mr. Sharma (Meeta's uncle)
• Shyama as Chachi (Meeta's aunt)
• Chand Usmani as Leela
• Master Tito as Babu (Meeta's son)
• Mukri as Ramu (Sunil's servant)
• Narbada Shankar as Brahmin / Pandit
• Jankidas as Loknath's Assistant

Music

1. "Zindagi Ai Zindagi" - Sachin Dev Burman
2. "Khus Raho Sathiyo Khus Raho Sathiyo" - Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
3. "Mera Sab Kuch Mere Geet Re" - Manna Dey
4. "Teri Jat Kya Hai, Meri Jat Kya Hai" - Kishore Kumar
5. "Tune Hame Kya Diya Ri Jindagi" - Kishore Kumar
6. "Kon Sacha Hai Kon Jhutha Hai" - Manna Dey
7. "Piya Tune Kya Kiya Re" - Sachin Dev Burman

Box office

The film was a huge critical and commercial failure. ^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Zindagi Zindagi at IMDb

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