Rattan (film)

Rattan (film)
Directed by	M. Sadiq
Written by	R.S. Choudhury, D. N. Madhok
Starring	Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Banu
Release dates	1944
Running time	118 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Rattan or Ratan is a 1944 Indian Bollywood film starring Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Bano. It was a highly successful movie of 1944.^[1] The film is noted as the film which made Naushad one of the top contributors to music in Indian films and enabled him to demand a fee of Rs 25000 a film.The heroine of the movie Swaran Lata had said in a live interview with the Pakistan Television years later that the tunes of the songs of Rattan were set by the lyricist D. N. Madhok himself.

Abdul Rashid Kardar production spent rupees seventy five thousand in 1944 to make ‘Rattan’. The music by Naushad Ali was such a phenomenal hit that the company earned Rs 3 lacs as royalty from Gramophone sales in the first year.

Cast

• Swaran Lata as Gauri^[2]
• Karan Dewan as Govind
• Amir Banu as Basant Kumar
• Azoorie
• Chanda
• Ghulab
• Manju
• Badri Prasad
• Rajkumari Shukla
• Wasti

Music

The film had music by Naushad, with lyrics by the renowned poet of the 1940s D. N. Madhok

• "Akkhiyan Milake " - Zohrabai Ambalawali
• "Rimjhim Barse Badarwa" - Zohrabai Ambalawali
• "Hindustan Ke Hum Hain" - Mohammad Rafi
• "Milke Bichhad Gayii Akkhiyan" - Amirbai Karnataki
• "Jab Tum Hi Chale Pardes Laga Kar Theis" -Karan Dewan
• "O janewale Balamwa" - Amirbai Karnataki and Shyam Kumar
• "Jab Tum Hi Chale Pardes Laga Kar Theis"
• "Pardesi Balma Baadal Aaya"
• "Sawan Ke Baadalo Unn Se Yeh Jaa Kaho"- Zohrabai Ambalewali and Karan Dewan^[3]

References

External links

• Ratan at the Internet Movie Database, Retrieved 22 May 2016
• http://www.citwf.com/film288734.htm, Rattan (film) on C.I.T.W.F. website, Retrieved 22 May 2016