Composer Ram Ganguly sahab did few movies considering comparitively long career but his quality was very good. Here is a perfect Diwali song from our side for this Diwali festival season which we really adore. The movie’s name is Paisa (1957).
It was produced by Prithviraj Kapoor sahab and was a film adaptation of a play of the same name done by Prithvi theatres and had its actors of course. The movie unfortunately flopped reportedly and made him under debt for a while. The lyrics are by Lalchand Bismil (also known as Bismil Peshawari). We are not sure about what was the Prithviraj Kapoor-Ram Ganguli connection.’ Probably this was reason for him doing Aag (a Kolkata or theatre one perhaps).
Acknowledgements:
We are grateful to our friends Dr Mahesh and Gajendra Khanna for their contributions to this post.
Tags: Deep, Diwali, Paisa, Ram Ganguli