Mujhe Jeene Do
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| Directed by | Moni Bhattacharjee |
| Produced by | Sunil Dutt - Ajanta Arts |
| Written by | Aghajani Kashmeri |
| Starring |
Sunil Dutt Waheeda Rehman |
| Music by |
Jaidev (Music) Sahir Ludhianvi (Lyrics) |
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180 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Mujhe Jeene Do (Let Me Live) is a 1963 Hindi film directed by Moni Bhattacharjee. This dacoit-drama stars Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Nirupa Roy, Rajendranath and Mumtaz.
Shot in Chambal Valley ravines of Bhind-Morena under police protection in Madhya Pradesh state, and Mohan Studios, Mumbai films highlights are acting talents of its star cast, Waheeda Rehman, and Sunil Dutt and indeed the music by musical genius Jaidev. It was the fourth highest grossing highest grossing Bollywood film of the year, and Official selection at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also the second success in a row of actor Sunil Dutt's production banner, Ajanta Arts, after Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke, which had been released earlier that year. Mujhe Jeene Do was India's third 'dacoit' film, a genre loosely inspired by Hollywood Westerns but more so by the menace of dacoity in Central India in the early 1960s. The film was a major success, like the earlier two other big films in the same genre, Ganga Jamuna (1961) and Raj Kapoor’s Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960).
Dacoits were traditionally shown as a rogue or menace to the society, especially in Hindi cinema, here for the first time film director, tried to show them in a fresh humanist perspective thereby giving the film its memorability.
Films humanist angle is credited to its director Moni Bhattacharjee who earlier assisted, realist cinema master, Bimal Roy in Do Bigha Zamin (1953) and Madhumati (1958), before turning director himself.
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