Sawan Aya Re
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- Kishore Sahu
- Ramola Devi
- David
- Mohana Cabral
| Sawan Aya Re | |
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 Screen shot from Sawan Aya Re | |
| Directed by | Kishore Sahu |
| Produced by | Kishore Sahu |
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| Cinematography | K. H. Kapadia |
| Edited by | Kantilal B. Shukla |
| Music by | Khemchand Prakash |
Production company | Hindustan Chitra |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Sawan Aya Re (The Monsoon Has Come) is a 1949 Hindi romantic drama film, directed by Kishore Sahu.[1][2] Produced by Sahu under his "Hindustan Chitra" banner,[3] it had Khemchand Prakash as the music director.[4] The cast included Kishore Sahu, Ramola Devi, David, Pratima Devi, Ramesh Gupta, Sofia and Mohana.[5]
The film was a romantic triangle set against the backdrop of a hill station, Nainital. A family arrives on a holiday, but the father is more keen on finding bridegrooms for his three daughters.
Anand (Kishore Sahu) lives in Nainital with his mother (Pratima Devi). They meet the Mathur family who have recently arrived there for holidays. The father wants to get his three daughters Asha, Sudha and Rama married and is hoping to find some suitable boys for them. When Asha and Anand meet they form a friendship, which is readily accepted by the two families who decide to get them married. However, Asha finds out that Anand and Sudha are in love with each other.
Cast
- Kishore Sahu as Anand
- Ramola Devi as Asha
- David as Ranvir Khanna
- Mohana Cabral
- Ramesh Gupta
- Sofia
- Gulab
- Pratima Devi as Anand's mother
- Anant Prabhu
- Promoth Bose
Box-office And Reception
The film did well commercially, with Baburao Patel of Filmindia remarking in the 1949 May edition that Sahu's estimate had risen due to the "original treatment" he gave to an "otherwise ordinary" story.[6]