Indriyavijay enters ever open door of Gautam’s hut. Gautam is drinking green tea with a lot of concentration – like always. Indriyavijay takes a seat in front of him. Rays of soft morning sun are filtering from the window behind his head. He looks inside the teacup, lifts it with both his hands. As the cup comes close to his face, the vapor from the cup brightens due to the shaft of sun. Waves of vapor take a few moments hanging near Gautam’s face and almost unwillingly move away, vanishing as they rise beyond his face and sunray. Gautam sips tea with closed eyes and slowly replaces the cup at the same spot. His eyes followed the cup throughout, Indriyavijay noticed. He knows it is Gautam’s tea meditation. Gautam has this habit of turning any day-to-day activity into a meditation. All his meals, bath, walk or chopping wood looks like slow-motioned Tai Chi. After two sips Gautam looks up. Indriyavijay does not know if he is looking at him or his vision going through him. However, by now he knows Gautam too well.

Indriyavijay: Is something wrong, you are looking a little glum.

Gautam: What is glum?

Indriyavijay: (correcting himself) I mean perhaps a little quieter.

Gautam: Yes I am feeling quieter internally. Isn't that good.

Indriyavijay: Yes… it is. (Deciding not to ask any more probing questions)

Gautam: you did come to ask me anything. You came to tell me something.

Indriyavijay: we are going to pick wood from forest. Are you coming?

Gautam: Actually my plans are to exercise my feet and legs, touch my toes few times, work on the strength of my fingers and palm and finally do some weight lifting.

Indriyavijay: oh, you have a busy schedule. So, we will carry on. We need wood for making tea and cooking dinner.

Gautam: (picking the cup) fine.

Indriyavijay bows and swiftly moves and starts calling out to others to join him. In a few moments a group of monks are seen collecting dried twigs from the ground. After sometime monks noticed Gautam too was collecting wood and was ahead of them.

A surprised Indriyavijay asked, ‘but you wanted to exercise!’

Gautam: (looking down) see that’s precisely what I am doing; walking, touching my toes, working on my fingers and palms and lifting gradually growing weight…

Film opens with a statue of a boy playing with a lion.

Shri Vishva Bharati Films Presents

Barsat Ki Rat

Card#1                    *ing

Madhubala, Bharat Bhooshan, Shyama, Chandra Shekhar

Card#2          with

K N Singh, Peaace Kanwal, S K Prem, Introducing Khursheed Bawara, Ratna

Card#3                   Supported by

Mirza Mushraf, Mumtaz Begum, Baby Shobha, Umar Daraz, Balam K Dinanath, M A Latif, Nazir Kashmiri, Haroon Rashid Khan, Sadhana, Prakash, Naomi Babu Raje, Ravi Kant Nagpal, Parveen Paul

Card#4                   Story: Rafi Ansari     Dialgue: Sarkar Sailani

Card#5                   Screenplay: Bharat Bhooshan, P L Santoshi

Card#6                   Director of Photography: M Rajaram (WICA)

Card#7                   Editing: P S Khochikar (AFE)

Card#8                   Art Director: Ganesh Basak

Card#9                   Assistants:

Direction: Datta Chavan, Srivastava, Billa Chawdhary

Camera: Anand Yashirde, Shashi Wadkar  Editing: Anant Dharamadhikaria

Art: B N Sarkar        Makeup: Daulat Satpal       Music: Master Sonik  Production: Beechan Satya Paul, Pandurang

Card#10        Makeup: Akhtar Mercy        Wardrobe: John Fernandes  Wig Maker: Sadnand Vardam          Costumes: Jaggi Tailors

Card#11        Stills: Kamat Photo Flash     Poster Printed by: Prasad Process Works, Madras Bachground Painting: Yusuf                  Main Titles: Ansari (G D Art)

Card#12        Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Sudha Malhotra, Mohd. Rafi, Manna Dey, S D Badish, Shanker Shamboo, Balbir, Suman Kalyanpur, Kamal Barot

Card#13        Songs Recorded by: Minoo Katrak, B N Sharma, Kaushik

Card#14        Processed at: Famous Cine Lab, Tardeo, Bombay Processed by: Lingayat Recorded on RCA Sound System Songs Recorded on: HMV Records

Card#15        Production Executive: Ashfaquddin Ahmad          Production Secretary: Rajesh Kumar

Card#16        Production Controller: B L Prashar

Card#17        Publicity: Harish Mehra

Card#18        Lyrics: Sahir Ludhianvi

Card#19        Music: Roshan

Card#20        Produced by: R Chandra

Card#21        Directed by: P L Santoshi

Song#1                   Garjat barsat sawan ayo re / Lata, Asha / Shayama, Mumtaz in front of the music teacher

Song#2                   Zindagi bhar nahin bhoolegi wo barsat ki raat / Mohd. Rafi / Bharat Bhooshan in front of microphone in Radio station / Madhubala listening to radio in her home

Song#3                   Maine shayad tumhe pehle bhi kahin dekha hai / Bharat Bhooshan sings on stage / Madhubala In audience

Funny line: Between Madubala and her friend Shanti: “Shanti kya nahin janati.” Madhubala: “Main nahin manati”

Song#4                   Zindagi bhar nahin bhoolegi wo barsat ki raat / Lata, Rafi / on Madhubala, tragic situation / in last part Bharat Bhooshan sings ‘Roothane wali meri baat se mayus na ho’

Song#5                   Kya gham jo Andheri hain raatein / Rafi / Bharat Bhooshan in radio station / Madhubala listens on radio

Song#6                   Mayoos to hoon wade se tere / Rafi / Bharat Bhooshan in ironsmith’s place / Madhubala is not able to come to meet him

Song#7                   Migahe naaz ke maron ka haal kya hoga / Qawwali competition / Lata, Asha, S D Badish / Shyama, Mumtaz and Qawwal actor / Opening lines “ada bijali, badan shoal, bhanvein khanjar, nazar qatil, galat kya hai hamein kehti hai ye duniya agar qatil”

Song#8                   Pehchanata hoon khoob tumhari nazar ko main, jane na doonga haath se dil aur jigar ko main / Qawwali competition / S D Badish, Asha / Bharat Bhooshan writes for Shyama and Mumtaz / they win

Song#9                   Mujhe mil gaya bahana tere deed ka / Lata / Shyama / Happy / Night

Song#10        Na to caravan ki talash hai, na to hum safar ki talash hai / Qawwali competition / Manna Dey, Asha, Lata, Rafi / Qawwal, Bharat Bhooshan, Shyama, Mumtaz /Madhubala comes, Shyama faints

Madhubala and Bharat Bhooshan unite / film ends