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Taqdeer (1943)

by Mehboob Khan 1943G

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Directed by
Mehboob Khan
Produced by
Chimankant Gandhi, Lalit J. Mehta, Mehboob Khan
Music by
Rafique Ghaznavi
Lyrics by
Maherul Qadri
Cinematography
Faredoon A. Irani, Shivram Malaya
Edited by
Shamsuddin Kadri
Cast
Motilal, Nargis, Chandramohan, Charlie, Jilloobai, Kayamali, Laddan, Maheshar Shirazi

Description

A theatre owner loses his small son at the Kumbh Mela; a judge whose own daughter is missing takes the found boy home and raises him as a girl to quiet his wife's grief. Years later the two lost children meet and fall in love without knowing who either of them is. Mehboob Khan's comedy of swapped identities is the film in which Nargis, fourteen years old and renamed by him from Fatima, played her first leading part - opposite Motilal, who was thirty-three.

The songs

  1. Badle Jo Zamaane Ki Taqdeer Hamari Hai — Shamshad Begum, Charlie · music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  2. Babu Darogaji Kaun Qasoor Par — Shamshad Begum · music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  3. Mere Mann Ki Duniya Basa Di — music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  4. Mera Maika Ho Ya Sasural — music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  5. Tumse Duniya Mujhe Chhudati Hai — music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  6. Meri Mata Meri Mata, Bharat Mata — Shamshad Begum, Motilal · music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  7. Chham Chham Chham Ghanghor Ghataayen Chhaayin — music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  8. Aap Kyun Kyun, Aap Kyun Aayenge — music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  9. O Jaanewaale Aaja — music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
  10. Zaalim Jawaani Kafir Adaayein — Motilal · music Rafique Ghaznavi · words Maherul Qadri
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Wikipedia
We corrected this The film's own title card credits the songs to Maherul Qadri alone. The encyclopaedia article names three different lyricists across its song list - Mahir ul Qadri, Agha Mahshar Shirazi and Anjum Pilibhiti - and spells the first man two ways between its own lead and its song table.
How we knowThe print is the authority on what it credits, and it credits one man under 'Songs'. The article may well be right that others contributed individual numbers, which happened often; what is certain is that its own two spellings of the same name cannot both be correct. Maheshar Shirazi is also credited on this print as a PERFORMER, not a lyricist, which may be the source of the confusion.
In the film archive
indiancine.ma
The film carries the English title Destiny - and that is the third Mehboob Khan picture in a row to have one.
How we knowindiancine.ma records Destiny as the alternative title. Aurat (1940) went out as Woman and Bahen (1941) as Sister, both confirmed by those films' own main title cards. Three consecutive pictures released under English names is a practice rather than a quirk, and none of the reference works remarks on it.
What we found
This print runs about five and a half minutes shorter than the length its own censor certificate records.
How we knowThe certificate in frame 0 gives the length as 3090.57 metres on 10 reels of 35mm. At 24 frames a second 35mm passes 0.4572 metres per second, so that is 6,760 seconds - 112 minutes - against the 6,429 seconds here. The certificate is also a RE-certification: it is issued under the Cinematograph Act of 1952, nine years after the film, for a print titled 'Taqdeer (Revised)', which is the ordinary explanation for a copy being short. Its certificate number is 38635.
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