One day, he meets a woman who looks exactly like Madhumati. He had won, but died on the road, while Charandas hides and takes Anand's body to a hospital.Īnand's life is saved but his mind wanders. While the men are taking Anand's body out of the palace, they meet Madhumati's father, who had to fight to stop his own daughter's death. He learns that she has been taken to Ugra Narain and confronts him, but Ugra Narain's men beat him unconscious. Anand has enemies among his staff he is sent away on an errand and returns to find that Madhumati has disappeared. Anand's employer, Raja Ugra Narain is a ruthless, arrogant man Anand, who refuses to bend down to him like others, incurs his wrath.
An artist in his spare time, he roamed the hills and fell in love with Madhumati, a tribal woman whose songs have haunted him from a distance. His friend and the old caretaker join him and Devendra, amid flashes of memory from another life, sits down to tell his story while the storm rages outside.Īnand is the new manager of Shyamnagar Timber Estate.
In the large front room, he finds an old portrait, which he recognises. Devendra finds the house uncannily familiar. A landslide blocks their path and the friends take shelter in an old mansion. On a stormy night, engineer Devendra drives down a hill road with his friend to fetch his wife and child from a railway station. It also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It won 9 Filmfare Awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Music Director, Best Female Playback Singer, Best Dialogue, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematographer-the most awards for a film at that time-a record that it maintained for record 37 years. It inspired later regional and international films that have reincarnation-based themes. Madhumati was one of the earliest films to deal with reincarnation, and was described by analysts as a potboiler that has a gothic and noir feel to it. It received overwhelming reviews from critics, who praised the techniquality, soundtrack and the performance of the cast. It earned ₹40 million in India and became the highest-grossing Indian film of the year, and one of the most commercially successful and influential Indian films of all time. The film was released on 12 September 1958. The soundtrack album was composed by Salil Chowdhury and the lyrics were written by Shailendra. Madhumati was filmed in various Indian locations, including Ranikhet, Ghorakhal, Vaitarna Dam and Aarey Milk Colony. It was ranked 11th in the Outlook Magazine's 25 leading Indian directors' poll for selecting Bollywood's greatest films in 2003. But they face challenges in their relationship finally leading to a paranormal consequence. The plot focuses on Anand, a modern man who falls in love with a tribal woman named Madhumati. The film stars Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala in the lead roles, with Pran and Johnny Walker in supporting roles. Madhumati is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language paranormal romance film directed and produced by Bimal Roy, and written by Ritwik Ghatak and Rajinder Singh Bedi.