Satyam Shivam Sundaram (film)

For the Kannada language film, see Sathyam Shivam Sundaram. For the Malayalam language film, see Sathyam Sivam Sundaram.
Satyam Shivam Sundaram

Film poster
Directed by Raj Kapoor
Produced by Raj Kapoor
Written by Jainendra Jain
Starring Shashi Kapoor
Zeenat Aman
Narrated by Raj Kapoor
Music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Cinematography Radhu Karmakar
Edited by Raj Kapoor
Production
company
R. K. Studios
Raj-Baug Loni
Distributed by Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd.
Release dates
 22 March 1978 (1978-03-22)
Running time
 172 min.
Country India
Language Hindi

Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Hindi: सत्यं शिवम् सुन्दरम् , English: "The Truth, the Good and The Beauty") is a 1978 Bollywood film starring Shashi Kapoor and Zeenat Aman, directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Jainendra Jain. It is a social drama about the differences between physical and spiritual love.

Plot

The story is set in a village where Roopa (Zeenat Aman) lives with her father, the village priest. As a young child, the right side of Roopa's face & neck were burned by a pot of boiling oil, leaving part of her face disfigured. Henceforth, Roopa keeps her right cheek hidden under the cover of her Sari. Despite the terrible accident, Roopa remains religious and goes to the village temple daily, singing hymns and devotional songs.

The protagonist Rajeev (Shashi Kapoor) is a dashing engineer who arrives in the village to oversee the operation of a major dam. He abhors anything that is ugly. He hears Roopa's religious singing and meets her, but somehow doesn't pay attention to her disfigured side, and falls in love with her. He then asks her father permission to marry her.

After the wedding, he discovers the truth, and thinks that he was cheated and forced to marry someone else, at which point he disowns Roopa and drives her out of the house. Roopa decides to meet him at night, using a veil to hide the charred side of her face. Rajeev spends his days hating his wife, and his nights loving his mistress, not knowing they are both the same woman - Roopa. During one of their nights together, they make love and Roopa gets pregnant. When Rajeev finds out that his wife is pregnant, he suspects her of infidelity and still refuses to believe this his "mistress" and wife are one and the same. In the movie's climax, a terrible storm ravages the village, breaking open the dam which Rajeev had come to build. In the swirling waters of the flood, Rajeev realises how shallow he had been, and saves Roopa from drowning.

Cast

Music

Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Studio album by Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Released 1978
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Saregama
Producer Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Laxmikant-Pyarelal chronology
Badalte Rishtey
(1978)		 Satyam Shivam Sundaram
(1978)		 Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Planet Bollywood[1]

Laxmikant-Pyarelal's music won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award. Lata Mangeshkar lends her voice to the main theme song "Satyam Shivam Sundaram", which was among the chart-toppers of the year. Various recent music groups from both India and the United States, such as Thievery Corporation and Sheila Chandra, have re-done the theme song from the movie. Also, many variations of the song have been made (e.g. the original version is considered, in Indian music, a Bhajan, but Lata Mangeshkar has also made a bhangra-like version, a different style).

Mangeshkar at the time of recording the main theme song was in dispute regards royalties with Raj Kapoor. She has conveyed that she came for the recording, practiced the song for a short while, sang the song in anger in one take and left.

Rakesh Budhu of Planet Bollywood gave 9 stars stating, "Satyam Shivam Sundaram is still a soundtrack that shines more amidst L-P’s many melody accomplishments."[1]

Song Singers Lyricist Time
"Satyam Shivam Sundaram" Lata Mangeshkar Pandit Narendra Sharma 5:05
"Bhor Bhaye Panghat Pe" Lata Mangeshkar Anand Bakshi 5:30
"Woh Aurat Hai Too Mehbooba" Nitin Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar Anand Bakshi 5:00
"Chanchal Sheetal Nirmal Komal" Mukesh Anand Bakshi 5:50
"Saiyan Nikas Gaye" Lata Mangeshkar, Bhupinder Singh Vitalbhai Patel 4:45
"Suni Jo Unke Aane Ki Aahat" Lata Mangeshkar Pandit Narendra Sharma 3:20
"Satyam Shivam Sundaram" Lata Mangeshkar Pandit Narendra Sharma 6:15
"Yashomati Maiya Se Bole Nandlala" Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey Pandit Narendra Sharma 3:45
"Yashomati Maiya Se Bole Nandlala" Lata Mangeshkar Pandit Narendra Sharma 3:10
"Shree Radha Mohan Shyam Shobhan" Manna Dey Pandit Narendra Sharma 2:50
"Shri Radhamohan" Lata Mangeshkar,Manna Dey Pandit Narendra Sharma 2:55

Awards and nominations

Won

Nominated

Trivia

"I visualised the story of a man falling for a woman with an ordinary countenance but a golden voice and wanted to cast Lata Mangeshkar in the role, the book quotes Raj Kapoor as saying."[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "SSS Music Review by Rakesh Budhu". Planet Bollywood. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Filmfare Award Nominees and Winner 1953-2005
  3. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/News- Feed/Books/Raj-Kapoor-The-face-behind-the-star/Article1-254712.aspx
  4. ↑ "Blast from the Past-Satyam Shivam Sundarma (1978)". The Hindu. Hindu. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  5. ↑ http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/i-still-regret-saying-no-to-raj-kapoor-for-satyam-shivam-sundaram/20150113.htm

External links

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