Bhoot bungla
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Bhoot Bangla is a popular 1965 Hindi film directed by Mehmood, who stars in the film alongside Tanuja and Rahul Dev Burman
. The film title is a common Hindi
expression meaning haunted house, or literally, a ghost house.
Fifty years later, three brothers, Kundanlal's nephews, are presently living in the Bungalow. They are Shyamlal (Nasir Hussain), Ramlal (Nana Palsikar) and Ramu. On the eve of Ramlal's daughter Rekha's (Tanuja) return from London, Ramlal is killed in a car accident which is suspected as murder. The suspicion is reinforced when Ramu is found hanging in his bedroom on the same night. Postmortem reports claim he was murdered before being hanged.
Shyamlal and Rekha move out of the Bungalow, to their home in the city and live there. However Rekha receives strange phone calls threatening her with death. She meets Mohan Kumar (Mehmood), the president of a local youth club, when he defeats her in a music competition. She soon confides to Mohan about the phone calls and Mohan begins to investigate into the calls. Rekha and Mohan soon fall in love with each other.
The climax takes place in the Bungalow when the murderer is revealed to be Kundanlal's child, who vanished into the night with his mother and now is the family doctor of Shyamlal and his family. His mother, Kundanlal's wife who vanished into the night, tells the group that Kundanlal's elder brother, Shyamlal's father, was the one who murdered Kundanlal owing to which her child was avenging his father's death.
Rahul Dev Burman
Rahul Dev Burman commonly known as R. D. Burman and nicknamed Pancham da or simply Pancham, was an influential Bollywood music composer. He was the only son of singer and Bollywood music composer Sachin Dev Burman and his wife Meera...
. The film title is a common Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
expression meaning haunted house, or literally, a ghost house.
Plot
Kundanlal was murdered and his wife and child vanished on a dark night, at the haunted bungalow surrounded by a jungle in the outskirts of Bombay.Fifty years later, three brothers, Kundanlal's nephews, are presently living in the Bungalow. They are Shyamlal (Nasir Hussain), Ramlal (Nana Palsikar) and Ramu. On the eve of Ramlal's daughter Rekha's (Tanuja) return from London, Ramlal is killed in a car accident which is suspected as murder. The suspicion is reinforced when Ramu is found hanging in his bedroom on the same night. Postmortem reports claim he was murdered before being hanged.
Shyamlal and Rekha move out of the Bungalow, to their home in the city and live there. However Rekha receives strange phone calls threatening her with death. She meets Mohan Kumar (Mehmood), the president of a local youth club, when he defeats her in a music competition. She soon confides to Mohan about the phone calls and Mohan begins to investigate into the calls. Rekha and Mohan soon fall in love with each other.
The climax takes place in the Bungalow when the murderer is revealed to be Kundanlal's child, who vanished into the night with his mother and now is the family doctor of Shyamlal and his family. His mother, Kundanlal's wife who vanished into the night, tells the group that Kundanlal's elder brother, Shyamlal's father, was the one who murdered Kundanlal owing to which her child was avenging his father's death.
Cast
| Actor/Actress | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mehmood Mehmood - References :* , INDOlink, 24 July 2004* , BBC, 23 July 2004* , Indian Express, 24 July 2004* , The Times of India, 23 July 2004- Further reading :* Zaveri, Hanif. Mehmood, a Man of Many Moods, Popular Prakashan, 2005. ISBN 8179912132... |
Mohan Kumar | as Mahmood |
| Tanuja | Rekha | |
| Nasir Hussain | Shyamlal | as Nazir Husain |
| Nana Palsikar Nana Palsikar Nana Palsikar was an Indian film actor, who appeared in over 80 Hindi films. He made his film debut in 1935 with Dhuwandhar, and went on to play character roles in both Hindi mainstream and arthouse films... |
Ramlal 'Ramu' | as Nana Palsiker |
| Asit Sen | Dhamu | |
| Jagdish Raj Jagdish Raj Jagdish Raj Khurana is a former Bollywood actor who holds a Guinness World Record record for being the most type-cast actor. He has played a police inspector in 144 films. He was born in 1928 in the town of Sargodha, British India, which is now in Pakistan... |
Police Inspector Sawant | |
| Rahul Dev Burman Rahul Dev Burman Rahul Dev Burman commonly known as R. D. Burman and nicknamed Pancham da or simply Pancham, was an influential Bollywood music composer. He was the only son of singer and Bollywood music composer Sachin Dev Burman and his wife Meera... |
as Pancham | |
| Mohan Choti | ||
| Shivraj | ||
| Moni Chatterjee | as Moni Chatterji | |
| Ranibala | ||
| Haidar Ali | Boy | uncredited |
External Links
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