Naukari
| Naukri | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bimal Roy |
| Produced by | Bimal Roy Productions |
| Written by | Paul Mahendra (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Nabendu Ghosh |
| Story by | Subodh Basu |
| Starring |
Kishore Kumar Sheila Ramani Achla Sachdev Mehmood Kanhaiyalal Jagdeep |
| Music by |
Salil Choudhury Shailendra (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Kamal Bose |
| Edited by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
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Release date
|
1954 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Naukri (Job) is a 1954 Bollywood film directed by Bimal Roy for Bimal Roy Productions. The lead actors were Kishore Kumar and Sheila Ramani. This film is about the dreams and aspirations of the educated youth getting shattered as they struggle in the city for employment, in the ensuing years after India attained independence. Naukri and Baap Beti (1954) are cited as "sensitive" and "memorable" films from Roy. In Naukri, Bimal Roy tackles yet another social problem, this time involving unemployment. Naukri is one of the earliest films where Kishore Kumar first gained prominence. Since his comic persona had not yet fully developed, Naukri sees a sincere, sensitive and restrained performance from him.
Rattan Kumar Choudhury (Kishore Kumar) stays with his widowed mother (Achala Sachdev) and sick sister, Uma/Umi (Noor) in the village. He is waiting for his college results. He dreams about the day when he has a job, a house and can find a good groom for his sister, and look after his mother. He narrates his dreams to his beloved sister in a beautiful song. She smiles happily and joins him in the song.
Rattan passes his BA and leaves for Calcutta where his father's colleague had promised him a job where his father had worked. In Calcutta he takes up boarding in a lodge where he is neighbor to three other unemployed youth (one of whom is Iftekhar) in the 'Bekar' (unemployed/without work) wing of the lodge. At his father's office he finds out the manager has given the job to a relative. Rattan doesn't give up and perseveres applying wherever he can.
His sister, suffering from TB is put on the waiting list at the sanatorium. Meanwhile, in Calcutta Rattan also finds love with Seema (Sheila Ramani) who stays in the house in the next compound - much to her father's chagrin, who wants a son-in-law with a good job. Rattan woos her by singing romantically outside his window, and Seema listens from her window. She is attracted. Her father keeps intruding into her room, closing the window etc to prevent this romance!
Rattan struggles to get a job but to no avail. One day even as he gets the news that his sister has been accepted at the sanatorium, he gets a telegram informing of her death. He is shocked and depressed, and his fellow lodgers console him.
One of the other unemployed youth in the lodge, Shankar, goes through similar misfortunes. He tries to kill himself but Rattan stops him. Shankar gets a job later and is grateful to Rattan.
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