Satyam Shivam Sundaram

Infobox Film
name = Satyam Shivam Sundaram


image_size =
caption = Film poster
director = Raj Kapoor
producer = Raj Kapoor
writer = Jainendra Jain
narrator =
starring = Shashi Kapoor
Zeenat Aman
music = Laxmikant-Pyarelal
cinematography = Radhu Karmakar
editing = Raj Kapoor
distributor = Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd.
released = 22 March 1978
runtime = 172 min.
country = India
language = Hindi
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0078204

Satyam Shivam Sundaram (meaning, "Truth is God and God is beautiful") is a 1978, Raj Kapoor-directed film starring Shashi Kapoor and Zeenat Aman.

The film had to face a stiff battle in getting past the Indian Film Censor Board for some of its risque scenes. The film did average business at the box office. [http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=184&catName=MTk3OA=]

Plot

The movie is set in a village where the heroine, Zeenat Aman, lives with her father, and the hero, Shashi Kapoor, comes as an engineer to oversee and build a major dam. The girl is tall, very attractive and also god-fearing, she goes to the temple daily and is a very good singer. The hero falls in love with her, and asks her father permission to marry her. However, she is scared of the marriage.

Since she was a child she loved three things. God, Music and Dancing. Growing up she was happy until that fatal moment as a young child when she was burned by a pot of oil on one side of her face. This destroyed her entire life but she never lost faith.

She is beautiful, but only on one side of the face. The other side had been scarred and disfigured by her child hood injury. She keeps that part of the face hidden by a veil using her "sari palloo". She is afraid that he will turn away when he sees her gruesome side of the face.

Music

Laxmikant-Pyarelal's music won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award. Lata Mangeshkar lends her voice to the "Satyam Shivam Sundaram" song (main theme), which was among the chart-toppers of the year.

Various recent music groups from both India and the United States have re-done the theme song from the movie, such as Thievery Corporation and Sheila Chandra. Also, many variations of the song have been made (e.g. the original version is considered, in Indian music, a Bhajan, but Lata Mangeshkar has also made a bhangra-like version, a different style).

Awards & Nominations

*Filmfare Best Music Director Award-Laxmikant-Pyarelal
* Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award-Radhu Karmakar
* Filmfare Nomination as Best Director-Raj Kapoor
* Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress-Zeenat Aman
* Filmfare Nomination as Best Lyricist-B.P. Narendra Sharma for the title song "Satyam Shivam Sundaram"
* Filmfare Nomination as Best Male Playback Singer-Mukesh for the song "Chanchal Sheetal" [http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf]

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