Biwi Aur Makan

Biwi Aur Makan (transl. Wife and home) is a 1966 Hindi film written and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film is a Hindi adaptation of Sailesh Dey's Bengali play Joymakali Boarding.^[1] The film stars Biswajit, Kalpana Mohan, Kesto Mukherjee and Mehmood in lead roles with music composed by Hemant Kumar.^[2][3]

Biwi Aur Makan
Directed by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Screenplay by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee Sachin Bhowmick
Dialogue by	Rajinder Singh Bedi
Story by	Sailesh Dey
Based on	Sailesh Dey's Bengali play Joymakali Boarding
Produced by	Hemant Kumar
Starring	Biswajit Chatterjee Kalpana Mohan Mehmood
Cinematography	T. B. Seetharam
Edited by	Das Dhaimade
Music by	Hemant Kumar
Production company	United Producers
Release date	1966 (1966)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Cast

• Biswajit Chatterjee as Arun
• Kalpana Mohan
• Mehmood as Pandey
• Shabnam as Leela
• Keshto Mukherjee as Kisan
• Badri Prasad
• Bipin Gupta
• Ashish Kumar as Shekhar
• Padma Khanna
• Brahm Bhardwaj

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by Hemant Kumar and the lyrics were penned by Gulzar.^{[citation needed]}

• "Khul Sim Sim Khullam Khulla" by Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar and Bhela Gupta
• "Jane Kahan Dekha Hai" by Mohammed Rafi
• "Aa Tha Jab Janam Liya Tha" by Manna Dey
• "Aise Danton Mein Ungli Dabao Nahin" by Asha Bhosle
• "Dabe Labon Se Kabhi Jo Koi Salam Le" by Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar
• "Sawan Mein Barkha Sataye" by Hemant Kumar

References

1. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 9781135943257 – via Google Books.
2. Biwi Aur Makan (1966). YouTube.
3. Biwi aur Makaan (1966). Archived 1 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine Dusted Off.

External links

• Biwi Aur Makan at IMDb
• Biwi Aur Makan at Rotten Tomatoes