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‘Police’ (1958) was produced by Deep Khosla and Pradeep Kumar under the banner of Deep & Pradeep Productions and was directed by Kalidas (Pradeep Kumar’s brother). The cast included Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar, Anwar Hussain, Nadira, Dhumal, Raj Mehra, Tun Tun, Deep Khosla, Rajan Kapoor, Jagdish Kanwal, Om Prakash, Neelofer with guest appearances of Bhagwan and Mirza Musharaf.
Writer-actor, Deep Khosla and Pradeep Kumar joined together to set-up a film production company, Deep & Pradeep Productions and produced ‘Ek Jhalak’ (1957), ‘Ek Shola’ (1958), ‘Police’ (1958) and ‘Do Dlion Ki Daastan’ (1966 – delayed release). It appears that after the box office failure of ‘Police’ (1958), Deep Khosla and Pradeep Kumar parted ways. While Deep Khosla formed his new film production company, Deep & Sandeep Production which produced ‘Batwaara’ (1960), Pradeep Kumar produced ‘Mitti Mein Sona’ (1960) under his own production house, P.K. Films.
The story of ‘Police’ (1958) is as under:
A police inspector who is on duty of unearthing a gang of jewel thief is shot dead by by an unidentified criminal. The police have doubt that it could be handiwork of an ex-criminal known as Rangooni (Pradeep Kumar) who, after completing his jail term, has migrated to Singapore about 5 years back. As per Singapore police information, Rangooni got killed in a car accident some years back. But as per Mumbai Police information, a person who resemblance Rangooni is traveling to Mumbai from Singapore. So, Mumbai Police keep a tag on him to see whether he is the same ex-criminal.
As soon as the flight from Singapore lands in Mumbai, he is confronted by Inspector Mehra (Raj Mehra) at the immigration counter who suspects that Rangooni is back in Mumbai for some criminal activities. He leaves by warning Rangooni that if he is found doing criminal activities, this time he will be in more trouble. Rangooni is amused by Mehra’s statement.
A grand dance party is arranged in honour of a visiting royal couple who had also travelled from Singapore in the same flight Rangooni has travelled. In the party, Police Inspector Mehra and his men are present in disguise. So also, the boss of jewel thief gang, Ramesh (Anwar Hussain) with his disguised henchmen. Rangooni also attend the party. During the song and dance presentation, light goes off and the costly necklace worn by the royal queen is stolen. Inspector Mehra suspects Rangooni for the theft of necklace, However, nothing is found on him. As it is known later, it is the handywork of Ramesh who has removed the neckless from queen’s neck when lights went off.
Next day, Inspector Mehra visits Rangooni’s house to take him to the police station for questioning. Rangooni runs away in the pretext of changing his cloths. There is a long chase between police jeeps and Rangooni’s car during which the car driven by Manju (Madhubala) obstruct him. Finding an opportunity, Rangooni takes Manju car by force to escape and Manju takes Rangooni’s car to follow him. Police continues to chase Rangooni’s car but find Manju driving, She is taken to the police station where she comes to know that it was Rangooni who has taken her car. Manju is quite excited about Rangooni because if he arrested, the news would give her a lot of publicity in the newspapers. Rangooni is in the police station but meets a police officer who is his boss. From their talks, it becomes apparent that Rangooni is actually an under-cover agent who, taking advantage of his look-like criminal Rangooni, is trying to mingle with members of the jewel thief gang led by Ramesh to unearth their operations and bring them to justice.
A realisation dawns to Ramesh that since the association of Rangooni with his gang members, a series of his heist attempts had failed. Ramesh lays a trap in a dance show where Rangooni is expected to attend. A sharpshooter in the guise of a musician tries to shoot him but Rangooni escape the death. Instead, he is caught by Ramesh’s henchmen and brought out the gang’s hideout. He is kept in a room with time bomb to eliminate him. However, the timely help from Manju facilitates his escape from the hideout.
In the meanwhile, Manju is kidnapped to demand ransom from her father. With her, Ramesh tries to escape from Mumbai with his gang members in a boat. But Rangooni is already waiting for Ramesh in the boat to thwart his escape. After a long fight between Rangooni and Ramesh on the boat, Ramesh is overpowered. The police enforcements come and arrest Ramesh and his gang members.
In the end, Manju is handed over to her father, Rai Bahadur (Om Prakash) who gives his consent to Manju and Rangooni to be united.
The film is supposed to be a comical suspense thriller. But the film does not have much of these ingredients worth mentioning. The suspense of Rangooni to be a police under-cover agent gets known to the audience much earlier than warranted. Surprisingly, the film ends with a full-pledged romantic song picturised on Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala. While watching the film, some time I get a doubt whether the film’s scenes were correctly sequenced while converting from the film to VHS tapes and then to VCD.
‘Police’ (1958) had 7 songs written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and set to music by Hemant Kumar. Four songs have already been covered on the Blog. I am presenting the 5th song, ‘sunle piya piya piya dhadke jiya jiya jiya’ which is rendered by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. The song is picturised on the two main dancers. The female dancer, I guess, is Meena Fernandes. The male dancer is the Choreographer, Surya Kumar. In this song, all the main actors of the film – Pradeep Kumar, Madhubala, Anwar Hussain and Nadira are seen. The person whom Madhubala sees through curtains who later become a sharpshooter replaceing a violinist towards the end is Jagdish Kanwal. The song has a long prelude as well as postlude music of over one minute each.
The background to this song is that Ramesh (Anwar Hussain) has planned to trap Rangooni (Pradeep Kumar) through Manju (Madhubala) who is Rangooni’s sweetheart, to kill him through his sharpshooter when the dance reaches the crescendo. Of course, Rangooni survives as Manju creates chaos among the musicians which disturbs the aim of the shooter.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Sun le piya piya piya (Police)(1958) Singers-Geeta Dutt, Hemant Kumar, Lyrics-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-Hemant Kumar
Chorus
Lyrics :
sun le piya piya piya
dhadke jiya jiya jiya
sun le piya
dhadke jiya
ye milan bura hai
kyunki laage hai bhalaa bhalaa
sun le piya
dhadke jiya
ye milan bura hai
kyunki laage hai bhalaa bhalaa
sun le piya piya piya
dhadke jiya jiya jiya
bhanwraa pukaare kali aa
aa aa
baahon ke sahaare chali aa
aa aa
bhanwraa pukaare kali aa
aa aa
baahon ke sahaare chali aa
aa aa
pyaar se youn na dar
main jo hoon gham na kar r r r r
pyaar se youn na dar
main jo hoon gham na kar
ye milan bhalaa hai
kyunki laage hai buraa buraa
na na na ye milan buraa hai
kyunki laage hai bhalaa bhalaa
sun le piya piya piya
dhadke jiya jiya jiya
jaane de ye ghaaten sataa na
na na
meethi meethi baaten banaa na
na na
jaane de ye ghaaten sataa na
na na
meethi meethi baaten banaa na
na na
chhod bhi ye adaa
maan jaa dilrubaa aa aa aa aa
chhod bhi ye adaa
maan jaa dilruba
ye milan bhalaa hai
kyunki laage hai buraa buraa
na na na ye milan buraa hai
kyunki laage hai bhalaa bhalaa
sun le piya piya piya
dhadke jiya jiya jiya
ankhiyon se nashaa pilaa laa
laa laa
achha to nigaahen mila laa
laa laa
ankhiyon se nashaa pilaa laa
laa laa
achha to nigaahen mila laa
laa laa
maan le jo kahe
achha jee youn sahi..ee ee ee ee
maan le jo kahe
achha jee youn sahi
chaal wo dikhaati hoon
ke aaye pyaar kaa mazaa
chaal wo
dikhaati hoon
ke aaye pyaar kaa mazaa