Munna (1954)

Original title

मुन्ना

Directed by

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

Genre

drama

Country

India

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple goes to an orphanage to adopt a child, but the boy runs away. His mother searches for him, and they keep just missing each other.

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What happens

Munna also called The Lost Child is a 1954 Hindi social drama film produced and directed by K. A. Abbas for the Naya Sansar banner. The story was written by Abbas with photography by Ramchandra. The music director was Anil Biswas though there were no songs in the film. Master Romi played Munna and the actor Jagdeep appeared as a child artist in the film. The rest of the cast included Sulochana Chatterjee, Shammi, Tripti Mitra, Achala Sachdev, David, Manmohan Krishna, Johnny Walker, Rashid Khan and Nana Palsikar. The film is stated to be a sequel to Abbas' debut directorial film Dharti Ke Lal (1946), especially with reference to the beginning of Dharti Ke Lal. Cited as the first Indian film produced without songs and dances, it was acclaimed as an international critical success though it failed at the box office. A couple wants to adopt a child from an orphanage, but he escapes. His mother looks for him and the two keep missing each other. The story was later used by Chetan Anand for his film Aakhri Khat (1960). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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