Islamabad
Script-Direction: Shabab Kairanvi
Music: M. Ashraf
Cast: Zeba, Mohammad Ali, Nadeem, Aliya,Aslam Pervaiz.
Lok Virsa Film Club Mandwa pays tribute to golden seventies with screening ‘Daman Aur Chingari’ on Saturday (February 4), at 3 p.m.
Directed by Shabab Kairanvi in 1973, one of the major attractions of ‘Daman Aur Chingari’ was its superstar cast: Zeba, Mohammad Ali and Nadeem. Zeba earlier had rarely appeared with any other male lead after her marriage to Mohammad Ali. Shabab Kairanvi was able to bring Nadeem, Zeba and Mohammad Ali together in this love triangle where one of the three had to opt out so the other two could walk into the sunset. The cast was supported by gone-wrong Aliya and vicious Aslam Pervaiz.
1973 was a bumper year for Pakistani films. After tremendous success of ‘Naila,’ ‘Andaleeb,’ ‘Zerqa’ and ‘Heer Ranjha’ in colour, black & white was now beginning to fade and be a thing of the past (needless to say that some low-budget quickies or stranded wrecks were still in black & white). Shabab Kairanvi and his two sons (Zafar Shabab and Nazar Shabab) religiously , without exception, made four to five films each year. 1973 brought competition for them from screenwriter A.S. Afaqi (Aas), Pervaiz Malik (Anmol) and S. Suleman (Society). Notwithstanding these hits, ‘Daman Aur Chingari’ did extremely well at the box-office and won good reviews.
M. Ashraf was a B-grade composer but he was part of Shabab Kairanvi factory on permanent basis. Shabab Kairanvi went out of his budgetary parameters and Noorjehan sang most of the hit songs:
‘Saheli tera bankpan’, ‘Eik hath pey’ and ‘Yeh wadah.’
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