Bees Saal Baad (1962)

Country of Origin: India (in Hindi)
Year of Production: 1962
Running Times: 158 mins
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Geetanjali Pictures
Producer: Hemanta Mukherjee
Production Controller: Manna Ladia
Production Manager: Ram Sawant

SCRIPT
Story: Dhruva Chatterjee
Dialogue: Devkishen

DIRECTION
Director: Biren Nag
Chief Assistant Director: Mohinder Sabherwal
Assistant Directors: Sital Kumar, Ashoke Roy, Probir Roy

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Marshall Braganza
Camera Operator: Braz Braganza
Assistant Camera: S.P. Rao
Processing: K.P. Bangare, Kanthrag

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Keshav Nanda
Assistant Editors: B. Krishna, M. Shanker

MUSIC
Music: Hemant Kumar
Songs: Hemanta Mukherjee, Shakeel Badayuni (Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil); Hemant Kumar, Shakeel Badayuni (Beqarar Karke Hamen Yun Na Jaiye); Sachin Dev Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi (Zara Nazron Se Kah Do Ji)
Songs Performed By: Lata Mangeshkar (Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil); Hemant Kumar (Beqarar Karke Hamen Yun Na Jaiye; Zara Nazron Se Kah Do Ji)
Song Recordist: Minoo Katrak
Assistant Musical Director: Risbert

SOUND
Audiographer: S.Y. Pathak
Assistant Sound: A.B. Masojee

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Ram Tipnis
Assistant Make Up: V.A. Prem Girikar
Hair: Vijaya Kamat, Salma
Costume Designer: Narender Kumar
Costume Assistants: A. Rahim, Nashib Singh

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: G.L. Jadhav
Assistant Art Director: Bhaskar L. Deokar

OTHER CREW
Production Assistants: A.H. Yusuf, Bijay Bahadur, Jan Mohammed
Choreographer: Kundanlal, Kapoor
Dialogue Trainers: Ahuja, Dilbagh
Publicity Officer: Colin Pal
Publicity Designer: Pamart

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Guru Dutt; Lata Mangeshkar; Sri Tolaram Jalan

CAST
Biswajeet (Kumar Vijay Singh)
Waheeda Rehman (Radha)
Manmohan Krishna (Ramlal Vaid)
Madan Puri (Dr Pandey)
Sajjan
Asit Sen (Gopichand Jasoos)
Lata Sinha
Dev Kishan
Mira Mukherjee
Ranu
Manohar Gir
Maqbul
Singh
Prakash
Prem Kumar
Deochand
Shivprasad
Hazarilal
Pathak

PLOT SUMMARY

Kumar returns to India from London to find that his Haveli is being haunted by a vengeful ghost. The spirit has already killed all of Kumar's uncles and now it's after him. It seems that the ghost is that of a young girl who took her life after being raped by Kumar's grandfather who has sworn vengeance on every male member of the family.

India
DVD Distributors: DEI Eternal Classics

1963
Filmfare Awards, India
Best Editor (Keshav Naidu) - winner
Best Lyricist (Shakeel Badayuni) - winner (for Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil)
Best Playback Singer - Female (Lata Mangeshkar) - winner (for Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil)
Best Sound Recordist (S.Y. Pathak) - winner

ghosts, haunted houses, rape, revenge, suicide

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008