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Jagte Raho
Director: Shambhu Mitra, Amit Mitra
Starring: Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Pradeep Kumar, Motilal
Music Director: Salil Chowdhury
Singers: Lata Mangeshkar
Jagte Raho is an allegoric film about darkness and light, where darkness is
the cloak of respectability under which a city supposedly sleeps but thrashes
around in the throes of crime and evil. Mohan (Raj Kapoor) is a simple villager
who comes to the city one night, searching for water to drink. He is mistaken
for a thief and stumbles into a building in his search for a hiding place.
Running from one flat to another, he finds himself the unwitting witness to some
crime or another being committed... It seems a night without end, but there is
an end, the coming of a dawn at which Mohan discovers that the terrible darkness
of the night is only half the truth... the other half is the beautiful day...
Jagte Raho became one of Raj Kapoor's best remembered films, winning him a
nomination for the Best Actor Filmfare Award. This film won the Grand Prix at
the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1957. The film
is also a swan song of sorts, Motilal, as a drunkard ("Zindagi khwab hai"), gave
one of his best performances at the tail end of his acting career and Nargis did
her last role with Raj Kapoor in the film, appearing only in the last scene
which became Hindi cinema's most haunting images. Filled with the longing beauty
of Salil Chowdhury's music and the song "Jaago Mohan Pyare", the film is Raj
Kapoor's most poignant films.
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