Sargam 1950

Sargam is a 1950 Indian Bollywood social film released on 1950. The film is directed by Santoshi.
SETH Roopchand, owher of the citys big thestre had arranged a musical conceri in honour of Kumar, who had recently returned from a tour abroad with his own party of musicians. In this chidren of the late Pandit Gyan Shankar gave much cause of annoyance to Roopchand by refusing to entrtain the audience any further after having challenged the crude and orthodex music of Kumars artistes. However, Kumar took am opportunity of making an offer to the Pandits children to join his troupe, but Asavari, the eldest daughter, politely refused the offer. . Roopchand, led by a feeling of revenge, theratened the Pandits children with the auction of their house, already morigaged by the late Pandit to himself. To save the children from the impending calamity, the late Pandits younger brither, who was looking ager the orphaned chikdren requested Babulal, Secrefary of the local Matrimonia Bureau, to find out a suirtable match cor the eldest daughter, Asavari so that the family may find a supporter. . And when Vinod, son of Seth Roopchand-freshly returned from England- accidentally arrived at the Pandits house, he was mistaken for the prospective bridegroom and tratedas such, The misunderstanding did not lost long, though Vinod had to conceal his identity for other reasons. This chance meeting, however, marked the beginning of a fond friendsh- ip between Bhairavi and Vinod. . Later on, when Seth Roopchand actually put his threat in action to action the house, it was Vinod who saved the situation by putting in Bhairavis hands the ten thousand rupees he had acquired from his fathers safe, without the latters knowledge. When this was discove- red in due time, the pandits poor children had no altenative left but to quit the town to seek a living wlsewhere. . When they actually left, Vinod also accompanled ther by the same train So did Munne, Babulals nephew, who had a soft corner for the Pandits other daughter Bageshwari. They all got down ot a midway rown where Kumar had already arrived with his troupe and Seth Roopchand had also arrived to have a look at the daughter of Raja Saheb, a wealthy landlor of the place, with a view to fixing up Vinods betrothal with her. . Unexpected there and the Pandits the helping hand againn offered and joined his party of musicales. They prospered with Kumar who got them back their old house in their home town of course, Kumar was already infatuated with the charms of Bhairavi and desired to make her his partner in life. . At Seth Roopchands theatre a performance of magical tricks was held by Shyam Ruhani, an England returned magician and a friend of Vinod. The artistes of kumars troupe had also lent their support to the perfermance. At the end of the show, during a magic trick, the theatre caught fire, and while Vinod and Kumar both rushed into the flames to save Bhairavis affections all the more. . Kumar then arranged a profesional tour of Africa andEgypt with his troupe. He had already brought with himself from a previous African tour, a native girl of that land and promised to marry her but that promise he had not fulfiled. On this tour Kumar was accompanied by Seth Roopchand, the Raja Saheb and his daughter, Ruhani and Munne. Only Vinod was not there and that caused great disappointment to Bhairavi who missed him very much. . But her surprise was a happy one when she later on found out Vinod on board the ship disguised as a sailor. Equally great was Kumars Jealoust, and he managed to get rie of his rival by having him thrown overboard. . The entire party, after giving perfromances in Egypt, left form Mombasa but a heavey storm overtook their ship on the way and distroye it completely. Allthe members of the party. however, luckily reached some unknown shores of that strange land somehow or other and fell prisoners in the hands of the African Chief of the region who threatened to kill them unless they agreed to give Bharavi in marriage to him. Check out this page for more updates on Sargam.