''Manmani'' (Happy-Go-Lucky) is a
1947
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Events
January
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Hindi
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social film directed by
Sarvottam Badami and produced by Ajit Pictures.
It had music composed by
Kamal Dasgupta. This was the last film of actress Ragini in
pre-partition India before she shifted to
Pakistan
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. The film starred
P. Jairaj, Ragini,
Sabita Devi
Sabita Devi (1914–1965) was a Hindi film actress in Indian cinema. She is stated to be one of the "prominent" leading ladies of the "pioneering era" of Indian cinema along with Mehtab, Bibbo, Durga Khote, Gohar, Devika Rani and Seeta Devi ...
,
E. Billimoria,
Nazir Hussain
Nazir Hussain (15 May 1922 – 16 October 1987) was an Indian actor, director and screenwriter. He was famous as a character actor in Hindi cinema and acted in almost 500 films. Dev Anand starred in a large proportion of the films he acted ...
, Maruti, Amar and Shrinath.
The story revolves around the grooming of a young village girl by a wealthy city man due to a bet.
Plot
Manohar, a wealthy young man and Shashi, a young city girl are good friends. They argue about who is a bigger spendthrift, man or woman. Manohar decides to prove that it's the female and for that he finds a young village girl Tara, who he decides to use as an experiment. Tara resides in the village with her father, but agrees to go to the city With Manohar to get photographed. In the city she lives with Manohar and he starts grooming her into a perfect lady. She learns the ways and then decides to go to see her father in the village. Manohar has fallen in love with Tara but is unable to tell Shashi, who also loves him. When the villagers taunt Tara for staying alone with a young man in the city, she lets them know that she and Manohar are getting married. She returns to the city with her father, only to find Manohar showing slides of the different stages of development in Tara's grooming to a group of people. Misunderstandings arise only to be sorted out finally when Manohar explains.
Cast
*
P. Jairaj
* Ragini
*
Sabita Devi
Sabita Devi (1914–1965) was a Hindi film actress in Indian cinema. She is stated to be one of the "prominent" leading ladies of the "pioneering era" of Indian cinema along with Mehtab, Bibbo, Durga Khote, Gohar, Devika Rani and Seeta Devi ...
*
E. Billimoria
*
Nazir Hussain
Nazir Hussain (15 May 1922 – 16 October 1987) was an Indian actor, director and screenwriter. He was famous as a character actor in Hindi cinema and acted in almost 500 films. Dev Anand starred in a large proportion of the films he acted ...
* Maruti
* Amar
* Shrinath
Music
The music composer was Kamal Dasgupta and the songs were sung by Kalyani Das,
Hemant Kumar
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemant Kumar and Hemanta Mukherjee, was a legendary Indian music composer and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian ...
and
Santosh Sengupta
Songlist
References
External links
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{{Sarvottam Badami
1947 films
1940s Hindi-language films
Indian black-and-white films
Films directed by Sarvottam Badami
Films scored by Kamal Dasgupta