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- In his directorial debut, Dhool Ka Phool, Yash Chopra delved into social issues like illegitimacy and religious harmony. The film tells the story of an illegitimate child raised by a Muslim man, highlighting themes of secularism with the iconic song “Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalman Banega,” sung by Mohammad Rafi.
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Dhool Ka Phool (transl. Flower of Dust) is a 1959 Indian Hindi-language film produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by B. R.'s brother Yash Chopra, being his first movie as a director, having been an assistant director in B. R.'s earlier film Naya Daur.
Oct 27, 2019 · ‘Dhool Ka Phool’—Nehruvian secularism of Yash Chopra’s first movie is worth remembering today The story of a Muslim man raising a Hindu child born out of wedlock is not only a plea for communal peace, but also questions the sexist mores of the times.
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Dhool Ka Phool: Directed by Yash Chopra. With Mala Sinha, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Nanda Karnataki, Manmohan Krishna. Mahesh and Meena fall in love but he marries another girl at his father's behest. When Meena takes their baby to Mahesh, he rejects her saying their relationship was a mistake.
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Sep 27, 2023 · The younger Chopra’s first directorial was 1959 classic Dhool Ka Phool, which spoke about an abandoned child being raised with secular values. Two years later, he directed Dharmputra, starring Shashi Kapoor and Mala Sinha.
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His directorial debut, Dhool ka phool (1959; “Flowers of the Dust”), a social drama that treated the birth of a child out of wedlock, was enormously popular. He followed it with Dharmputra (1961), a film adaptation of a novel about the pre-partition period of India’s history.
Yash Chopra's debut film is a progressive (for its time) film about illegitimacy and breaking social norms. Chopra arrives fully formed as a filmmaker, with traces of his signature style in Dhool Ka Phool. The cast is uniformly excellent, the screenplay is outstanding, and there are a few unforgettable images and moments.
Release Date: 03 December 1959. DHOOL KA PHOOL is about the searing stigma of illegitimacy and an impassioned plea for communal harmony. Roshan is the illegitimate and abandoned son of Mahesh and Meena, who is brought up by a kind old man, Abdul chacha who finds the little child.
