ARMAN (1966)
Posted Feb 21st, 2009 at 09:14 AM by arjay
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ARMAN (1966)
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FILMARTS....'ARMAAN' was yet another blockbuster--right after HEERA AUR PATTHAR--which also did PLATINUM JUBILEE--at NAZ Cinema, Karachi.
The cast was quite an ordinary apart from Waheed Murad and Zeba, most belonged to Radio Pakistan-Karachi and Karachi Stage artiste' like;
ZAHOOR AHMED (NIAZ of KHUDA KI BASTI) as Waheed's dad, BIBBO (the famous visitor/betor at Karachi's famous horse race club), the then charming Rozina..(who married TV star of today...Faysal Qureshi's uncle Riffat Qureshi later. Her daughter SAIMA made it big in private productions-TV till recently).
Then there was Tarranum...the serious yet not so serious---mid 30's lady who vanished after appearing in but a dozen+ movies.
NIRALA (real name Muzaffar) having acquired a place in Waheed's eyes..was again there after HAP..as Waheed's close friend..pairing with Rozina.
Then it was this bloke called SOHAIL in the movie..who did but two movies---in his career-----for God knows reason--pairing with Tarannum (his only other movie was EID MUBARAK) and it looks like he had some money of his won invested...in EID MUBARAK--that he was given the role of Rukhsana's husband.
Others in ARMAN included; AGHA SARWAR (my school friend/cricketer; Mubasshir Sajjad's mamoon...Mubasshir's wife is the real sis of beautician
Nabila), blokes like Ansari and Sharafat.
Almost ALL the outdoor songs were filmed in MURREE and NATHIAGALI....including the famous 'BETAB HO UDHHAR TUM....' at the famous CECIL HOTEL-Murree.
AKELE NA JAANA was filmed at KASHMIR POINT near the famous Church and Park...near Governor's House.
ZINDAGI APNI THEEH ABB TUKK.....was filmed at the outskirts of Mall Road-Murree...down towards Pindi' Point.
KO KO KORINA was filmed at the EASTERN FILM Studios...where over 80% of the movie was shot in six straight months. I saw the filming of two
scene; Some parts of 'JUBB PYAR MEIN DOU DIL MILTE HEIN' and one take of Waheed Murad & Nirala...when Nirala is running away from the
house..ddue to his stupidity and Waheed pursuing him to stay back for the love of Dolly (Rozina).....!
ARMAN was a typical love-story well mixed with slapstick comedy as well as tragedy.....WAHEED as AAMIR a son of a rich man in lookout for an
eastern girl as his better-half...and not meeting eye to eye with his dad's family friend's daughter...while the widow of the family
friend...dejecting NAJMA (Zeba)..their geometrical family friend's orphan...at their house being liked by Waheed over her own daughter SEEMA
(Taranum)...and so forth on...that Seema already pregnant by her friend SOHAIL...gives birth to the child and Najma (Zeba) sacrifices her
love for the sake of the obligations on her by Begum Saheba.. that she claims the child to be hers..etc etc.
ARMAN had strong music..by Sohail Rana...equally strong direction by Pervez Malik and matchingly wonderful lyrics by Masroor Anwar. The
famous FOUR then--who ruled Karachi Film Industry for a while...were; WAHEED MURAD-PERVEZ MALIK-SOHAIL RANA and MASROOR ANWAR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-D4N...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHt1...eature=related
SOHAIL..the bloke can be seen in this scene;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5RH4...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5RH4...eature=related
I saw the shoots at Eastern Studios----courtesy Sohail Rana...our family friend...and I almost went in trance when I met WAHEED MURAD first
time ever...him being a close friend and school mate to my first cousin Ayesha's husband Shamimul Islam at Marie Classo.
I thought this was the first ever film production of Pakistan...where the producer....drove in his car (DATSUN BLUEBIRD) all the way to
Murree from Karachi (at a gas station..scene between Waheed and Nirala ....the car can be seen);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzTQ...eature=related
Plus Waheed also used his Caddillac for some powerful scenes...at entrance gate of his OFF: Tariq Road house which is still there...(in fact
me and my cousin..out of sheer craze for Waheed Murad..visited his Tariq Road house and insisted on his servant to call him outside and when
he came...we were sort of spellbound that we couldn't utter a word...while Waheed smiled and encouraged us to be coherent
)...that was when
ARMAN was in full swing with all shows house full!
Therefore-------ARMAN' s most popular song which hit the then charts on radio Pakistan...then...were ;
AKELE NA JAANA (Kashmir Point park area-Murree);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRj5vcbQV4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRj5vcbQV4
then on a more melodious and slapstick note--it was 'BETAB HO UDHHAR TUM' (filmed at CECIL HOTEL, Murree);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNK8gV0sC4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNK8gV0sC4
KOKO KORINA became the SONG of the YEAR (now of DECADES)...it was filmed at Eastern Studios--where they now film adverts (I did ROSE PETAL one there in 2007);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjpmv...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjpmvkIDPCU&feature=related
JUBB PYAR MEI DOU DIL MILTE HEIN....again at Eastern Studios..and interestingly..right after the filming of KOKO KORINA....the next day! with adjustment of set from a club to some gloomy situation and smoke et---but same characters around--including Agha Sarwar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_te...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_teo5sY3U&feature=related
ZINDAGI APNI THEEH ABB TUKK.....was filmed in Murree...near Kashmir Point (Khurshid Shirazee the female singer sang but one para; AIK PAL KI MUSKURAHAT ZINDAGI BHAR KA HAI ROGE...JANE KIYON MUSKURA KAR DIL CHURRA LE TAY HEIN LOGE...that's it and after that she was never seen or heard of!! the song...therefore---was the only one in her short career in singing!!!!!) ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOGK...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOGKvXu3HA&feature=related
AGHA SARWAR did two different roles in ARMAN....one as a guitarist shown in the song KOKO KORINA....and the other as Begum Saheba's MUNSHI.
He later migrated to London and regularly participated in BBC URDU SERVICE from Bush House, Strand, London.
ARMAN was the arman of almost entire pakistani movie lovers. It is still reckoned as one of the most appealing movie of FILMARTS which had every ingredient required to ensure a reasounding success for a film;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTFTv...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTFTvPU-dvs&feature=related
HAIL WAHEED MURAD ! for giving us such huge and worthy entertainment which we...do not expect in foreseeable future of Pak Film Industry
Raju Jamil, Karachi
ARMAN (1966)
============
FILMARTS....'ARMAAN' was yet another blockbuster--right after HEERA AUR PATTHAR--which also did PLATINUM JUBILEE--at NAZ Cinema, Karachi.
The cast was quite an ordinary apart from Waheed Murad and Zeba, most belonged to Radio Pakistan-Karachi and Karachi Stage artiste' like;
ZAHOOR AHMED (NIAZ of KHUDA KI BASTI) as Waheed's dad, BIBBO (the famous visitor/betor at Karachi's famous horse race club), the then charming Rozina..(who married TV star of today...Faysal Qureshi's uncle Riffat Qureshi later. Her daughter SAIMA made it big in private productions-TV till recently).
Then there was Tarranum...the serious yet not so serious---mid 30's lady who vanished after appearing in but a dozen+ movies.
NIRALA (real name Muzaffar) having acquired a place in Waheed's eyes..was again there after HAP..as Waheed's close friend..pairing with Rozina.
Then it was this bloke called SOHAIL in the movie..who did but two movies---in his career-----for God knows reason--pairing with Tarannum (his only other movie was EID MUBARAK) and it looks like he had some money of his won invested...in EID MUBARAK--that he was given the role of Rukhsana's husband.
Others in ARMAN included; AGHA SARWAR (my school friend/cricketer; Mubasshir Sajjad's mamoon...Mubasshir's wife is the real sis of beautician
Nabila), blokes like Ansari and Sharafat.
Almost ALL the outdoor songs were filmed in MURREE and NATHIAGALI....including the famous 'BETAB HO UDHHAR TUM....' at the famous CECIL HOTEL-Murree.
AKELE NA JAANA was filmed at KASHMIR POINT near the famous Church and Park...near Governor's House.
ZINDAGI APNI THEEH ABB TUKK.....was filmed at the outskirts of Mall Road-Murree...down towards Pindi' Point.
KO KO KORINA was filmed at the EASTERN FILM Studios...where over 80% of the movie was shot in six straight months. I saw the filming of two
scene; Some parts of 'JUBB PYAR MEIN DOU DIL MILTE HEIN' and one take of Waheed Murad & Nirala...when Nirala is running away from the
house..ddue to his stupidity and Waheed pursuing him to stay back for the love of Dolly (Rozina).....!
ARMAN was a typical love-story well mixed with slapstick comedy as well as tragedy.....WAHEED as AAMIR a son of a rich man in lookout for an
eastern girl as his better-half...and not meeting eye to eye with his dad's family friend's daughter...while the widow of the family
friend...dejecting NAJMA (Zeba)..their geometrical family friend's orphan...at their house being liked by Waheed over her own daughter SEEMA
(Taranum)...and so forth on...that Seema already pregnant by her friend SOHAIL...gives birth to the child and Najma (Zeba) sacrifices her
love for the sake of the obligations on her by Begum Saheba.. that she claims the child to be hers..etc etc.
ARMAN had strong music..by Sohail Rana...equally strong direction by Pervez Malik and matchingly wonderful lyrics by Masroor Anwar. The
famous FOUR then--who ruled Karachi Film Industry for a while...were; WAHEED MURAD-PERVEZ MALIK-SOHAIL RANA and MASROOR ANWAR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-D4N...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHt1...eature=related
SOHAIL..the bloke can be seen in this scene;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5RH4...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5RH4...eature=related
I saw the shoots at Eastern Studios----courtesy Sohail Rana...our family friend...and I almost went in trance when I met WAHEED MURAD first
time ever...him being a close friend and school mate to my first cousin Ayesha's husband Shamimul Islam at Marie Classo.
I thought this was the first ever film production of Pakistan...where the producer....drove in his car (DATSUN BLUEBIRD) all the way to
Murree from Karachi (at a gas station..scene between Waheed and Nirala ....the car can be seen);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzTQ...eature=related
Plus Waheed also used his Caddillac for some powerful scenes...at entrance gate of his OFF: Tariq Road house which is still there...(in fact
me and my cousin..out of sheer craze for Waheed Murad..visited his Tariq Road house and insisted on his servant to call him outside and when
he came...we were sort of spellbound that we couldn't utter a word...while Waheed smiled and encouraged us to be coherent
)...that was when ARMAN was in full swing with all shows house full!
Therefore-------ARMAN' s most popular song which hit the then charts on radio Pakistan...then...were ;
AKELE NA JAANA (Kashmir Point park area-Murree);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRj5vcbQV4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRj5vcbQV4
then on a more melodious and slapstick note--it was 'BETAB HO UDHHAR TUM' (filmed at CECIL HOTEL, Murree);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNK8gV0sC4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNK8gV0sC4
KOKO KORINA became the SONG of the YEAR (now of DECADES)...it was filmed at Eastern Studios--where they now film adverts (I did ROSE PETAL one there in 2007);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjpmv...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjpmvkIDPCU&feature=related
JUBB PYAR MEI DOU DIL MILTE HEIN....again at Eastern Studios..and interestingly..right after the filming of KOKO KORINA....the next day! with adjustment of set from a club to some gloomy situation and smoke et---but same characters around--including Agha Sarwar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_te...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_teo5sY3U&feature=related
ZINDAGI APNI THEEH ABB TUKK.....was filmed in Murree...near Kashmir Point (Khurshid Shirazee the female singer sang but one para; AIK PAL KI MUSKURAHAT ZINDAGI BHAR KA HAI ROGE...JANE KIYON MUSKURA KAR DIL CHURRA LE TAY HEIN LOGE...that's it and after that she was never seen or heard of!! the song...therefore---was the only one in her short career in singing!!!!!) ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOGK...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOGKvXu3HA&feature=related
AGHA SARWAR did two different roles in ARMAN....one as a guitarist shown in the song KOKO KORINA....and the other as Begum Saheba's MUNSHI.
He later migrated to London and regularly participated in BBC URDU SERVICE from Bush House, Strand, London.
ARMAN was the arman of almost entire pakistani movie lovers. It is still reckoned as one of the most appealing movie of FILMARTS which had every ingredient required to ensure a reasounding success for a film;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTFTv...eature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTFTvPU-dvs&feature=related
HAIL WAHEED MURAD ! for giving us such huge and worthy entertainment which we...do not expect in foreseeable future of Pak Film Industry
Raju Jamil, Karachi
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