Sawan Aya Re

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| name = Sawan Aya Re

| image = Sawan Aya Re.jpg

| caption = Screen shot from Sawan Aya Re

| director = Kishore Sahu

| producer = Kishore Sahu

| writer =

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Kishore Sahu|Ramola Devi|David|Mohana Cabral}}

| music = Khemchand Prakash

| cinematography = K. H. Kapadia

| editing = Kantilal B. Shukla

| distributor =

| studio = Hindustan Chitra

| released = {{Film date|1949}}

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| country = India

| language = Hindi

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Sawan Aya Re (The Monsoon Has Come) is a 1949 Hindi romantic drama film, directed by Kishore Sahu.{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&pg=RA19-PA1988|accessdate=15 March 2015|date=10 July 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-94325-7|pages=19–}}{{cite book|title=Indian cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uJkAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=15 March 2015|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|location=India|isbn=978-81-230-0646-8|page=106}} Produced by Sahu under his "Hindustan Chitra" banner,{{cite book|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qf0TAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=15 March 2015|year=1953|publisher=Bennett, Coleman.|page=781}} it had Khemchand Prakash as the music director.{{cite web|title=Sawan Aya Re (1949)|url=http://www.gomolo.com/sawan-aya-re-movie/1959|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|accessdate=15 March 2015}} The cast included Kishore Sahu, Ramola Devi, David, Pratima Devi, Ramesh Gupta, Sofia and Mohana.{{cite web|title=Sawan Aya Re|url=http://www.citwf.com/film307065.htm|website=citwf.com|publisher=Alan Goble|accessdate=15 March 2015}}

The film was a romantic triangle set against the backdrop of a hill station, Nainital. A family arrives on a holiday, but the father is more keen on finding bridegrooms for his three daughters.

Plot

Anand (Kishore Sahu) lives in Nainital with his mother (Pratima Devi). They meet the Mathur family who have recently arrived there for holidays. The father wants to get his three daughters Asha, Sudha and Rama married and is hoping to find some suitable boys for them. When Asha and Anand meet they form a friendship, which is readily accepted by the two families who decide to get them married. However, Asha finds out that Anand and Sudha are in love with each other.

Cast

Kishore Sahu as Anand
Ramola Devi as Asha
David as Ranvir Khanna
Mohana Cabral
Ramesh Gupta
Sofia
Gulab
Pratima Devi as Anand's mother
Anant Prabhu
Promoth Bose

Box-office And Reception

The film did well commercially, with Baburao Patel of Filmindia remarking in the 1949 May edition that Sahu's estimate had risen due to the "original treatment" he gave to an "otherwise ordinary" story.{{cite journal|last1=Patel|first1=Baburao|title=Filmindia|journal=Filmindia|date=May 1949|volume=15|issue=5|pages=74|url=https://archive.org/stream/filmindia194915unse#page/n463/mode/2up/search/Rhim+Jhim|accessdate=15 March 2015}}

Soundtrack

The music director was Khemchand Prakash. The notable songs were "Ae Dil Na Mujhe Yad Dila" sung by Khan Mastana, "Mein Toh Gawan Chali" by Shamshad Begum, and "Nahin Faryaad karte Hum" also sung by Shamshad Begum.{{cite web|title=Nahin Faryad Karte-Khemchand Prakash|url=http://members.tripod.com/oldies_club/KCParkash.htm|website=members.tripod.com|publisher=Tripod|accessdate=15 March 2015|ref=Oldies Club}} The four lyricists were Gulshan Jalalabadi, Arzoo Lakhnavi, Rammurti Chaturvedi and Bharat Vyas. The playback singers were Shamshad Begum, Amirbai Karnataki, Laita Devulkar, Mohammed Rafi and Khan Mastana.{{cite web|title=Sawan Aya Re (1949)|url=http://myswar.com/album/sawan-aya-re-1949|website=myswar.com|publisher=MySwar|accessdate=15 March 2015}}