Bollywood Hungama Subhash K. Jha Updated: May 13, 2021 - 12:02 PM IST
Eid-ul-Fitr has been celebrated in a big way in many of our films. The films below are the ones where Eid serves as a pivotal plot point.
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Chaudvin Ka Chand (1960): Guru Dutt’s first and only ‘Muslim Social’ a genre of cinema that celebrated the obsolete if not altogether non-existent Nawabi culture, was made to counter the losses he suffered with the autobiographical
Kagaz Ke Phool . While that film was all about life
Chaudhvin Ka Chand had nothing to do with real life. Two Muslim best friends Aslam and Nawab (played by Guru Dutt and his real-life buddy Rehman) both love the same beauty Jameela (Waheeda Rehman). The title song written by Shakel Badayuni as the ultimate ode to love and beauty captured the actress in all her resplendent beauty in colour while the rest of the film is in black and white. The film is set in the city of nawabs Lucknow and captures the ethos of luxuriant romance ra