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Hum Dono (1961)

Name: Hum Dono (1961)
Director: Amarjeet
Released: 1961
Duration: 2 h 28 min 45 s

by Amarjeet 1961G General

Drama Musical Romance war

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Directed by: Vijay Anand, Amarjeet
Produced by: Dev Anand
Written by: Vijay Anand, Nirmal Sircar
Music by: Jaidev
Lyrics by: Sahir Ludhianvi
Singers: Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
Cinematography: V. Ratra
Edited by: Dharamvir
Cast: Dev Anand, Sadhana Shivdasani, Nanda

The songs

Abhi Na Jao Chhodkar — Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
Adhuri Yaad Pyas Chhod Ke — Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
Allah Tero Naam Ishwar Tero Naam — Lata Mangeshkar
Jahan Mein Aisa Kaun Hai — Asha Bhosle
Kabhi Khud Pe Kabhi Haalaat Pe — Mohammed Rafi
Main Zindagi Ka Saath — Mohammed Rafi
Prabhu Tero Naam — Lata Mangeshkar

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Read about it: Wikipedia
In the film archive: indiancine.ma
indiancine.ma records three certificate numbers for Hum Dono and one date, 20 December 1961 - ten months after the film opened on 4 February 1961. A film is not released in India before it is passed, so either the original certificate is not in the archive and this date belongs to a re-certification, or the opening date is wrong. The opening date has independent support, so the certificate date is the doubtful one.
How we know
indiancine.ma record JWX: censorshipcertificatenumber 'U-34336-MUM, U-64525-MUM, U-100285-MUM', dateofcensorcertificate '1961-12-20'. Wikipedia gives the release as 4 February 1961, and the colourised reissue was dated 4 February 2011 and promoted as falling exactly fifty years after the premiere - two separate records agreeing on 4 February. Read against the 44 censor cards this catalogue has photographed off prints, the other two numbers place around 1971 and 1982, so neither of them can carry a 1961 date either.

indiancine.ma credits Hum Dono's story to Nirmal Sircar alone, and does not name Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay or his novel Uttarayan anywhere in the record. Dev Anand bought the film rights from Bandyopadhyay himself. Both sources are partly right: Sircar adapted it, Bandyopadhyay wrote it - and only one of them says so.
How we know
Wikipedia: 'Based on Uttarayan (a novel) by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay', and records that Dev Anand bought the rights from Bandyopadhyay. indiancine.ma's record for the film (JWX) lists story and st as 'Nirmal Sircar' and has no field naming Bandyopadhyay.

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Uttarayan (1963, Bengali) — not in this catalogue yet
The same Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay source, filmed in Bengali two years after this. Not held.
Uttarayan (Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay) — not in this catalogue yet
Dev Anand read the Bengali novel and bought the film rights from Bandyopadhyay himself; his brother Vijay Anand wrote the screenplay from it, loosely. The novel is not held.

The same people, elsewhere

Same music director: Alaap (1977)
Jaidev scored both, sixteen years apart and both built on classical music.
Same director: Black Mail (1973)
Vijay Anand directed both - 12 years apart.
Same lyricist and singer: Dhool Ka Phool (1959)
Sahir Ludhianvi wrote Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalman Banega for Dhool Ka Phool and Allah Tero Naam Ishwar Tero Naam for this, two years apart - the same argument made twice, the second time as a prayer.
Same music director: Gharaonda (1977)
Jaidev wrote the music of both - 16 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Guide (1965)
Vijay Anand directed and wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of both; Dev Anand produced them.
Same director and script writer: Jewel Thief (1967)
Vijay Anand directed and wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of both; V. Ratra photographed them; Dev Anand produced them.
Same director and script writer: Johny Mera Naam (1970)
Vijay Anand directed and wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of both.
Same director and script writer: Kala Bazar (1960)
Vijay Anand wrote and directed Kala Bazar under his own name at twenty-five; the next year came Hum Dono, credited to Amarjeet, which Dev Anand always said Vijay had really directed. Both Navketan, both produced by Dev Anand.
Same music director: Laila Majnu (1976)
Jaidev wrote the music of both - 15 years apart.
Same singer: Love in Tokyo (1966)
Dharamvir cut both.
Same director and script writer: Rajput (1982)
Vijay Anand directed and wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of both - 21 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Ram Balram (1980)
Vijay Anand directed and wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of both - 19 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963)
Vijay Anand directed and wrote the screenplay of both; V. Ratra photographed them; Biren Naug designed them.
Same director and producer: Tere Mere Sapne (1971)
Vijay Anand directed both; Dev Anand produced them - 10 years apart.

A different film with the same name

Hum Dono (1985)
The same title and the same double-role device, twenty-four years apart, and no other connection. The 1961 film is Dev Anand, Jaidev and Sahir Ludhianvi; this one is Rajesh Khanna remade from a Telugu comedy.

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