Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo

Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo is a Bhojpuri film released in 1963 directed by Kundan Kumar. It was the firstever Bhojpuri film, and starred Kumkum, Ashim Kumar and Nazir Hussain. It had music by Chitragupta, lyrics by Shailendra and songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi.

At an award function in Mumbai in the late 1950s, character actor Nazir Hussain met then president Dr. Rajendra Prasad, who also belonged to Bihar. During their conversation Prasad asked Hussain, Why dont you make films in Bhojpuri? The conversation inspired Hussain. He had already written the screenplay of the Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo, meaning Ganges Mother I will offer you the auspicious yellow sari if my wishes come true and had first given it to Bimal Roy, with whom he had worked in Devdas 1955.In a chance enounter, Hussain met Bishwanath Prasad Shahabad, a businessman from Arrah in Bihar, at a film studio in Bombay. Shahbad, owned cinema halls in Dhanbad and Giridih. When Hussain narrated the story to Shahbad, he immediately agreed to finance the film at 1.5 lakh US2,200, though eventually it cost lakh US7,400. Kundan Kumar, who hailed from Varanasi, and had made the film Bade Ghar Ki Bahu 1960 with Geeta Bali and Abhi Bhattacharya was chosen. ........

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