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Shehnai is a 1964 Indian Bollywood romance,musical film released on Jan 01, 1964. The film is directed by S D Narang. Shehnai is a typical Indian Musical instrument, the sweet melodies of which herald a happy augury or an auspicous event. Its vital notes are two; the happy and the sad. . Like-wise the story of "Shehnai" is a dramatic as well as a romantic display of vital human emotions, presenting kaleidoscopic reflections of bathos and pathos, comedy and tragedy, and thereby circling round one centre, the center of human goodness. . Young and handsome Deepak, an enterprising youth of many talents, is a popular student in his college, for intellectual persuits, sports, music and poetry. His co-student, Preeti, the only daughter of a millionaire, Raja Sahib, has, on the other hand, no equal at dancing and feminine grace. Deepak and Preeti are attracted towrads each other by the natural process of the like attracting the like. . Aided and abated by their common friends, goofy Jan Mohammad and vivacious Rita (a bublling Anglicised lass), Deepak and Preeti fall in love, dreaming of their ultimate union, their final bliss. Benevolent and kind-hearted Raja Sahib, when he learns of his daughters infatuation of Deepak, generously offers a scholarship for further studies in the U.S.A and a high-salaried lucrative job on his return from abroad, in his business firm. . Bouncing with joy, Deepak rushes to his mother to announce the happy tiding to her. But mother, Shobha, is far from being pleased. She discloses the last wish of her late husband, Pilot officer, Amarjeet, the their son should be brought up as an officer in the Indian Air Force, according to the noble traditions of his marital family. . Deepak willingly acceeds to the wishes of his mother and goes for training to the Indian Air Force Center. He returns as a full-fledged pilot-officer to Srinagar. Now his rank and uniform shock Preetis mother, Asha and father Raja Sahib. Asha flatly refuses to marry her only daughter to a pilot-officer, every moment of whose life, according to her, is full of risk. . And there hangs a story, Asha and Shobah were close-friends, married to friendly Pilot Officers, Kaul and Amarjeet, respectively. One day Amarjeet, over joyous with the news of that his wife, Shobha was expecting their first child, announced proudly, "If our first child is a son he will brought up as an officer in the martial tradtions of my family. He must become an officer in the Indian Air Force". Soon the second World War broke out and Amarjeet and Kaul were killed in action. . Now it was Shobhas mission to fulfill the last wishes of her late husband and bring up their son, Deepak, as an Air Force Officer. Asha on the other hand, marry again and rehabilitates herself as the wife of Raja Sahib. The shokc of the death of her first husband, Pilot officer Kaul, has made her determine, that come that whay may, she wil never marry her daughter, Preeti, to a pilot officer. . Deepak accepts the refusal with grace and conceals the agony of his heart with a smile. He is not prepared to seek his own personal happiness at the cost of his mothers ambitions and leaves for the Front on duty. [Source: Booklet] Check out this page for more updates on Shehnai.
