Ujala

Ujala
DVD cover
Directed by	Naresh Saigal
Produced by	F.C. Mehra
Written by	Qamar Jalalabadi (screenplay) Naresh Saigal (story) Manohar Singh Sehrai (dialogues)
Starring	Shammi Kapoor Mala Sinha Raaj Kumar Leela Chitnis
Music by	Shankar Jaikishan
Cinematography	Shivram Malaya
Editing by	Pran Mehra
Release dates	1959 (1959)
Running time	109 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Ujala is a Bollywood movie released in 1959, starring Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Raaj Kumar, Leela Chitnis and Tun Tun. Naresh Saigal was the story writer as well as the director of the movie. Ujala features one of the popular Bollywood songs "Jhoomta Masoom, Mast Mahina" played by Shammi Kapoor and Mala Sinha, but sung by Manna Dey and Lata Mangeshkar. The film came with a message; "Honesty always triumphs".^[1]

Plot

Ramu (played by Shammi Kapoor) and his family (his mother was played by Leela Chitnis) and his sweetheart Chabeli (played by Mala Sinha) were poor, but they dreamed of a better life and always kept on trying to achieve it. In the process his childhood friend and villain in the movie Kalu (played by Raj Kumar)) creates obstacles for his ambitions.

Ramu is dragged into an evil world, where Kalu makes him realize, that it is easy money to rob someone; honesty apparently has no value. Ramu gets pulled into this world and all the circumstances lead him to kill one of the gang members of Kalu and to robbing a silver knife, which belonged to police officer.

Cast

• Shammi Kapoor as Ramu
• Mala Sinha as Chabeli
• Raaj Kumar as Kalu
• Leela Chitnis as Ramu's mother
• Dhumal as Bholu
• Kumkum as Kammo
• Ramesh Sinha as Police Inspector
• Shivraj as Acharya

Music

The film score is composed by the musical duo Shankar Jaikishan. The lyrics were written by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri.

References

External links

• Ujala at the Internet Movie Database