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Goonj

Director: Phani Majumdar
Starring: Bhagwan, Madan Puri, Manju, Randhir, Ravikant, Sapru, Suraiya, Suresh
Music Director: Sardul Kwatra
Singers: Suraiya

Echoing the arching animosity between the court musician Salieri and his protegee Mozart, ‘Baiju Bawra’ seems sharply evocative of the classical heritage that was lost in the quest of popular element in the mainstream cinema. Director Vijay Bhatt made another film on the same theme, ‘Goonj Uthi Shehnai’, featuring the music of Ustad Bismillah Khan. Both ‘Baiju Bawra’ and ‘Goonj Uthi Shehnai’ were major hits, and are seen today by some critics as the true precursors of K. Vishwanath’s exposition on classicism in ‘Sur Sangam’ and ‘Jaag Utha Insaan’. The film’s highlight is the classical jugalbandi between the two renowned raga maestros Ustad Amir Khan and Pandit D.V. Paluskar, who sang the climactic song under Naushad’s able supervision, for Tansen and Baiju, respectively. The music by Naushad is regarded by a majority of the composer’s fans as his best ever. The bhajan "Man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj" typifies communal harmony by featuring a Muslim composer (Naushad), lyricist (Shakeel Badayuni) and singer (Mohammed Rafi). And how painfully pretty Meena Kumari looked as Baiju’s innocent and lovelorn sweetheart Gauri. This was Meena Kumari’s first major screen role. Singing Lata Mangeshkar’s dulcet and virginal "Mohey bhool gaye sanwariya", Meena Kumari climbed to dizzying heights of fame after ‘Baiju Bawra’. Sadly, Bharat Bhushan, who gave indications of being sensitively talented, never rose beyond the Baiju bastion. His subsequent screen roles failed to match up to the majesty of this musical odyssey. Bharat Bhushan soon lost his stardom and ended his days in penury. Interestingly, he lost his very first popular film award for Best Actor in 1953 to Dilip Kumar (for ‘Daag’). But Bharat Bhushan won the award the very next year for playing another biographical character in Vijay Bhatt’s ‘Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’.Director Vijay Bhatt went from strength to strength, churning out major hits like ‘Goonj Uthi Shehnai’, ‘Hariyali Aur Raasta’ and ‘Himalay Ki God Mein’. But if it is one film that Bhatt has to be identified with, it’s ‘Baiju Bawra’. Musicals may come and go. But Naushad’s contribution to immortalizing the legend of Baiju through songs that supported the film’s classical design, is immeasurable.