Vidyapathi realizes that Bindu loves music and that is the reason for her closeness with Master Pillai. Vidyapati ( Kishore Kumar), who is a singer and theater actor and Bhola's friend and mentor comes to his rescue and spies on Bindu.īindu tolerates advances of her South Indian music teacher Master Pillai / Masterji ( Mehmood). Bindu however, gets annoyed by Bhola and refutes his advances. There, he finds a beautiful neighbour Bindu ( Saira Banu) and falls in love with her. Angry, he leaves his uncle's house and moves in to live with his Aunt (Pratap's wife). Bhola is enraged at Pratap Singh who has been searching for a girl to marry despite his wife being alive. Many of the scenes were shot in Brindavan Gardens located near the city of Mysore.īhola ( Sunil Dutt), an innocent young man lives with his maternal uncle (Mama) Kunwar Pratap Singh ( Om Prakash). Kishore Kumar sang for himself while Manna Dey sang for Mehmood. Indiatimes Movies ranked the film amongst the "Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films". Kishore Kumar's character of a comical theater director was also well received. It was considered one of the best comedy films made in Hindi film history. Mehmood as the South Indian musician and rival to Sunil Dutt is among the highlights of the film. Kishore Kumar, Mukri, Raj Kishore and Keshto Mukherjee played the supporting roles. The film stars Sunil Dutt and Saira Banu. It is a remake of the Bengali-language film Pasher Bari (1952) based on a short story of the same name by Arun Chowdhury starring Bhanu Bandyopadhyay and Sabitri Chatterjee. Lady Neighbour) is a 1968 Indian Hindi-language musical comedy film directed by Jyoti Swaroop and produced by Mehmood, N. "Meri chatur naar" is extremely fun to watch and kishore kumar's vocals are excellent.Padosan ( transl. The most famous of all being "Mere samnewali khidki mein" which is hummed even today. Burman masterfully comes up with songs fit for the situations. Saira Banu, oozing of charm is quite good as the spoilt Bindu. Add master comedians Mehmood and Kishore Kumar and a funny looking Sunil Dutt, you have the perfect recipe for a hilariously whacky romantic comedy. With such a whacky plot, there are laughs aplenty. So now begins a jugal-bandi between Masterji and Guru (ahem Bhola) for Bindu's affections. This development thwarts Masterji's master plan of marrying Bindu. Guru's (Kishore Kumar's) voice being what it is, bewitches Bindu and she starts falling for Bhola. And so begins one of the whackiest cons in cinema. But unfortunately our Bhola is quite the novice when it comes to singing, sounding more like a braying donkey than a singing suitor. After much investigation, Guru and his friends discover that Bindu's soft spot is music. He tries to woo her but to no avail until he enlists the help of his friend and mentor Guru (Kishore Kumar) who owns an acting troupe of which Bhola is a part of. We find out that Bindu is enamored with music and into the picture comes her music teacher, Masterji (Mehmood) who aside from being a bumbling fool who speaks in Tamil accented Hindi, is also in love with Bindu. He later finds out that she is his neighbor. Padosan, which means 'Neighbor' is the story of Bhola (Sunil Dutt) who li ke his name is a very naive and innocent soul who happens to see Bindu(Saira Banu) and falls in love with her. I suggest you start by watching this film. You my friend, need a good lesson in Indian Cinema. rAjOo who hasn't heard of it? Well if you are one of those unfortunate souls who hasn't, I feel terribly saddened for your state. Songs include: "Me chali me chali dekho pyar ki gali mujhe rokhe na koi." "Bhai bathur ab jaienge kitni door, najook najook meri jawani chalne se majboor." "Ik chatur naar karke singhar mere man ke duar ye goosath jaat." "Sarm ahti hai magar aaj yeh kahena hoga ab hamey aap ke kadmon main rahena hoga." "Kahena hai kahena hai akhir aaj ye tumse pehli baar, tum hi to lai ho jeevan me mere pyar pyar pyar.". Bhola's friends Vidyapathi (Kishore Kumar), Banarasi (Mukri), and others belonging to an acting troupe, assist in hoodwinking Bindu to get attracted to Bhola, and thereby getting his love life back, but there are unexpected twists and turns, and Bhola's lies are exposed, making Bindu return to her plans to marry Master Pillai. Bhola is thrilled, but soon despairs when he learns that Bindu has given her heart to Master Pillai (Mehmood). Coincidentally, Bindu moves in next to his house.
He meets with lovely Bindu (Saira Banu) and falls head in love with her. Bhola (Sunil Dutt) is a simple minded young man who has taken a vow to act according to the book of shashtras, which dictate that a man must marry when he is of the right age.