The Bhopalites are taking pleasure of the various events happening at Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum. Among all the other events, here on Saturday the filmy buffs enjoyed Dilip Kumar and Vijayantimala’s love saga once again on big screen.
The movie Madhumati was screened on Saturday at Tribal Museum. The movie was directed by one of the most influential Bollywood director Bimal Roy. Madhumati, is considered among the most successful movies by Bimal Roy.
Madhumati is a 1958 Hindi film written by Ritwik Ghatak and Rajinder Singh Bedi. The music for the film was composed by Salil Choudhury with lyrics written by Shailendra.
The film stars Dilip Kumar and Vijayantimala in the lead roles along with Pran and Johnny Walker. It was one of the earliest films to deal with reincarnation and had a gothic noir feel to it. While driving his car on a rainy night, Anand's car breaks down, and he goes to seek shelter in a nearby house.
He is let into the house by the servant and he is permitted to stay until the rains stop and is able to get his car fixed. It is here that he will find out about his previous birth, his true love, Madhumati, their ill-fated, star-crossed and tragic romance and how events in his previous birth are going to affect him in this life-time. The story takes a turn when he meets Madhvi, a look alike of Madhumati.
The show received a good response. Not only the theatre lovers but many Dilip Kumar fans were noticed at the show.