Lagan (1941 film)

Lagan is a 1941 Indian Bollywood film. It was the fifth highest grossing Indian film of 1941. The film was directed by Nitin Bose for New Theatres Ltd. Calcutta. The film was a bilingual with K. L. Saigal and Kanan Devi acting as the lead in the Bengali language version of it, Parichaya. The music for both versions was by R. C. Boral. This was the last film Saigal did for New Theatres, Calcutta, before his move to Bombay to make films for different studios there.

At the annual college event the main singer goes missing. To help matters, Kusum Kumari Kanan Devi plays a record. The lyrics of the song are by a young poet K. L. Saigal living in a village. The Principal of the college, impressed by the poets work brings him to the city. The poet takes to training Kusum to sing for the next event and falls in love with her. One of the patrons Nawab is a wealthy businessman. He is enthralled by Kusum and after negotiations with her father, gets married to her in spite of the poet trying to intercede. The poet disappears but after some time the husband listens to Kusum and helps in furthering the poets career. The gesture is misunderstood by the poet who thinks that the help was given to him because of Kusums love for him. Finally Kusum has to let him know that for her the poet was a Guru she respected.The film was a big hit at the boxoffice. Kanan Devi won the Best Actress award from the Bengal Film Journalists Associations in 1942 for the Bengali version Parichaya. ........

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