Bahar (1951 film)

Bahar
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Directed by	M. V. Raman
Produced by	A. V. Meiyappan
Story by	Story: M. V. Raman Dialogue: Rajendra Krishan
Starring	Vyjayanthimala Karan Dewan Pandari Bai Pran Om Prakash
Music by	S. D. Burman
Cinematography	T. Muthuswamy
Edited by	K. Shankar M. V. Raman
Production company	A.V.M Studios
Distributed by	Rajshri Productions
Release date	26 October 1951 (1951-10-26)
Running time	170 min
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹12,500,000

Bahar (Hindi: बहार; English: The spring season or happiness) is a 1951 Hindi Black-and-white social guidance film written and directed by M. V. Raman. It was a remake of the 1949 South Indian blockbuster film Vazhkai. The film starred by Vyjayanthimala in her Bollywood debut, Karan Dewan, Pandari Bai in the lead with Pran, Om Prakash, Leela Mishra, Sunder, Tabassum, Indira Acharya and Chaman Puri forms an ensemble cast. The film was produced by A. V. Meiyappan with his production company, AVM. The music was composed by S. D. Burman with lyrics provided by Rajendra Krishan, while the editing was done by K. Shankarand and M. V. Raman and the camera was handled by T. Muthuswamy. The story revolves around Lata, Vasant and Malti.

The story revolves around Lata who lives a wealthy lifestyle with her parents and they would like her to get married to wealthy Shekhar she initially approves it. Shortly thereafter she meets with Vasant Kumar and both fall in love with each other and get married. Heart broken and angry Shekhar starts to investigate Vasant's background. Finds out that Vasant's real name is Ashok, an editor for a magazine. What happens in Ashok or Vasant Kumar life?

After his film Vazhkai was a runaway success at box office where it completed 25 weeks of its theatrical run, A. V. Meiyappan plan to remade the film in Hindi with his company AVM Productions. For the lead female role, actress Vyjayanthimala was roped in, Vyjayanthimala who has done the same role previously in the Tamil and Telugu version about to make her Bollywood debut through this film. She was also learned Hindi at the Hindi Prachar Sabha to dub her own voice for her character. For second female lead, popular South Indian actress Pandari Bai was approached, though earlier she was considered to enact the same role in the Tamil version but only to be rejected by A. V. Meiyappan because of her Kannada-tinged Tamil accent who replace her with actress M. S. Draupadi in that role.Pandari Bai was credited as Padmini through this film as her name is too old fashioned for Bollywood.