Mela (1948 film)

Mela The Fair is a 1948 romantic tragedy Hindi film. It was produced by and directed by S.U. Sunny for Wadia Movietone. It starred Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Jeevan, Rehman and Nur Jehan. The films music was composed by Naushad. Mukesh gave playback for Dilip in this film and one of the Mukesh hits was Gaye Ja Geet Milan Ke. Mohammed Rafis voice was used just once, for the popular song Ye Zindagi Ke Mele, set in a fairground and picturised on a wandering mendicant at the start of the film. Lyrics of the songs were written by Shakeel Badayuni with story and dialogue by Azam Bazidpuri.

Manju lives in the village with her father a school teacher and step mother. Mohan Dilip Kumar and Manju Nargis live in the same village and are friends since childhood. The friendship develops into love and they are both excited about their wedding. Mohan decides to go into town to buy jewelry for the marriage. On the way he is robbed and becomes unconscious with his injuries landing him in a hospital.Mehkoo Jeevan, is a nogood retired from the army man, who lusts after one of the young village girls. He is influential with Manjus stepmother and, with her by his side he calls the village panchayat. Here he denounces Mohan as a cad who has run way with a girl, telling them that he wont return for the marriage. Since th wedding day has been fixed, the panchayat agrees with Mehkoo that Manju should get married on the day decided. A supposedly suitable groom is found for Manju, who turns out to be a seventyyearold sickly man. When he enters the wedding chambers, he finds that Manju is too young to be his bride. Remorseful, he asks forgiveness but pleads with her to care for his children. Manju takes on the role of the old mans wife. The man dies with Manju now left a young widow in charge of the children. ........

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