Khandan (1942 film)

Khandan, also spelled as Khandaan , is a 1942 prepartition Urdu film directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi and produced by D.M. Pancholi, starring Pran Krishana , Noor Jehan, Ghulam Mohammed and M. Ajmal.

This was mainly a Noor Jehan musical about a man seduced by a golddigging woman, who then kills her and her lover is jailed. When he is released, he finds employment as a gardener and becomes a fatherfigure to his employers son Anwar and to Anwars fiancee Zeenat Noor Jehan. This allows him to prevent Anwar from perpetuating precisely the same crime for which he had been jailed as history repeats itself because, so the film alleges, men are constantly threatened by women and only paternal wisdom can save them from the untoward desires of women. Future famous film directors Ramesh Saigal and S. K. Ojha assisted in this film. Ashish Rajadhyaksha amp Paul Willemen Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , New Revised Edition 1999.The music is composed by Ghulam Haider and lyrics by M. D. Taseer, Nazim Panipati and D. N. Madhok. The playback singers include Noor Jehan, Shamshad Begum, Ghulam Haider and Nasim Akhtar.This film was a landmark movie for Ghulam Haider and Noor Jehan as well as the film director Shaukat Hussain Rizvi.Allended up becoming wellsoughtafter persons, when this film became a megahit musical movie. ........

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