Together, the new foursome of Shankar-Jaikishan, Shailendra and Jaipuri would go on to create more classic soundtracks, including some for the RK banner with Awara (1951) and Shree 420 (1955). In fact, this was also Hasrat Jaipuri’s debut, who created songs like ‘Chhod Gaye Balam’ and ‘Barsaat Mein Humse Mile’ with Lata Mangeshkar’s vocals. The latter was written by Shailendra who turned lyricist at Kapoor’s insistence. All 11 songs of the film were memorable, from the lively ‘Hawa Mein Udta Jaye’ to the cabaret picturised on Cuckoo, ‘Patli Kamar Hai’. It was a decision that paid off beautifully. For his second film, the musically inclined Kapoor chose the assistants to helm the album. The composers, who had worked at Prithvi Theatres, previously assisted Ram Ganguly who scored the music for Aag (1948). Jaddanbai, singer, actress, composer, filmmaker: 70th death anniversary specialĪnother strong point of the film was the debut musical score by the composer duo Shankar-Jaikishan. Even in the film, the couple faced tough parental opposition to their love. Interestingly, though the film is shot in Kashmir, a few of the Raj-Nargis portions had to be filmed in Mahableshwar as Nargis’s mother Jaddanbai refused to let her go to Kashmir. He holds the violin in one arm and the woman in the other, both so gracefully, that I thought here is something that could represent creation in totality, and so I made it the emblem of RK Films.”
The filmmaker himself explained the story behind the emblem, in the book, Raj Kapoor: The One and Only Showman: “That still beautiful: a man is playing the violin and a woman falls into his arms. The passionate love story between Pran and Reshma and their romantic reunion onscreen, became the famous logo of the RK Films' banner. It was the first time he was working with ambitious actor-filmmaker. The future filmmaker made a name for himself with the hit screenplay for Kapoor. Sagar had arrived in Mumbai (then Bombay) only two years earlier and written a Hindi novel titled Aur Insaan Mar Gaya in 1948 on the events of the Partition.
The film, written by Ramanand Sagar, had everything going for it. Roy represented an educated elite class that aspired to be the conscience and vanguard of a nascent national collectively.”ħ0 years of Aag: The film that launched RK Films According to the book Mourning The Nation by Bhaskar Sarkar: “The so-called social film followed the reform-minded literary tradition whose roots can be traced back to the articulation of the social reforms in India by Raja Rammohan Roy in the early nineteenth century. Like most of the films that emerged from the new nation after 1947, these were social films that pointed out the ideals of a hopeful India - in areas of romance, class and family.