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{{Infobox film
| name = Phir Subah Hogi
| image = Phir Subah Hogi.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = [[Ramesh Saigal]]
| producer = [[Ramesh Saigal]]
| writer =
| narrator =
| starring = [[Raj Kapoor]]<br />[[Mala Sinha]]<br />[[Rehman (actor)|Rehman]]<br />[[Tun Tun]]
| music = [[Mohammed Zahur Khayyam]]
| cinematography =
| editing =
| distributor =
| released = 1958
| runtime = 168 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget =
| gross = {{INR}}18,000,000<ref name=BoxOffice />
}}

'''''Phir Subah Hogi''''' (Also spelled ''Phir Subha Hogi''; {{Translation}} Morning will dawn again) is a 1958 [[India]]n [[Hindi]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] produced and directed by [[Ramesh Saigal]] and starring [[Raj Kapoor]] and [[Mala Sinha]]. The film is an adaption of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Phir Subah Hogi (1958) |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/Phir-Subah-Hogi-1958/article15938668.ece |access-date=19 September 2018 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=19 June 2009 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

It was the fourth highest-grossing film in [[India]] of 1958 and was declared as a "Hit" at Box Office India.<ref name=BoxOffice>{{cite web|author=Box Office India|title=Top Earners 1958|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=164&catName=MTk1OA==|publisher=boxofficeindia.com|access-date=1 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030041245/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=164&catName=MTk1OA==|archive-date=30 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Plot ==
Ram ([[Raj Kapoor]]) is a poor law student who supports his education with [[money order]]s from his mother and things he [[pawn broker|pawns]]. While struggling with his poor finances, he save a boy from an accident. Seeing the poor condition of the boy's family, he gives all his savings for the boy's treatment. Ram keeps visiting the boy and falls in love with the boy's elder sister Sohni ([[Mala Sinha]]). Sohni's father Gopal is addicted to liquor, which Harbanslal keeps providing him with. Harbanslal has a mean motive in doing so as he wants marry Sohni. To prevent Sohni's arranged marriage with Harbanslal, Ram decides to rob the [[pawn broker]]. But he is caught in the act, and he murders the pawn owner.{{Citation needed|reason=a reference is needed for this information|date=June 2017}}

Ram's conscience keeps telling him to admit to his crime. But he never picks up the courage to do so. The police inspector on the case keeps suspecting Ram for the crime. With no proof he, too, is helpless. Ram learns that the police have already arrested another thief and have charged him with this robbery and murder. On the last day, when the court is to rule in the case, Ram makes up his mind and admits. He pleads saying how he was acting in self-defense against real villains of the society. The court sentences him to three years of imprisonment. Sohni promises that she will wait for his release and then marry him.{{Citation needed|reason=a reference is needed for this information|date=June 2017}}

== Cast ==
* [[Raj Kapoor]] as Ram Babu
* [[Mala Sinha]] as Sohni
* [[Rehman (actor)|Rehman]] as Rehman, Ram's friend
* [[Kamal Kapoor]] as Sohni's molester
* Mubarak as Police Inspector
* [[Jagdish Sethi]] as Harbanslal
* [[Leela Chitnis]] as Sohni's Mother
* [[Nana Palsikar]] as Gopal, Sohni's father
* [[Tun Tun]] as Ram's Landlord

== Music ==
Lyrics for this socially relevant film were composed by [[Sahir Ludhianvi]] and music by [[Mohammed Zahur Khayyam]], popularly known as Khayyam. The song "Chin-O-Arab Hamara, Hindustan Hamara, Rahne Ko Ghar Nahin Hain, Saara Jahan Hamara" sung by [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] and picturised on [[Raj Kapoor]], became very popular yet controversial, and was very close to being banned then.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Woh Subah Kabhi To Aayegi | extra1 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] | lyrics1 = | length1 = 02:05
| title2 = Aasman Pe Hai Khuda, Aur Zameen Pe Hum | extra2 = Mukesh | lyrics2 = | length2 = 02:31
| title3 = Woh Subah Kabhi To Aayegi | extra3 = Mukesh, [[Asha Bhosle]] | lyrics3 = | length3 = 03:38
| title4 = Chin-O-Arab Hamara | extra4 = Mukesh | lyrics4 = | length4 = 03:28
| title5 = Phir Na Kije Meri Gustakh Nigah Ka Gila | extra5 = Mukesh, Asha Bhosle | lyrics5 = | length5 = 03:23
| title6 = Jis Pyaar Mein Ye Haal Ho | extra6 = [[Mohammad Rafi]], Mukesh | lyrics6 = | length6 = 03:55
| title7 = Do Boonden Sawan Ki | extra7 = [[Asha Bhosle]] | lyrics7 = | length7 = 04:04
}}

== Reception ==
''Phir Subah Hogi'' fared successfully at the box office and was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year 1958 behind ''[[Madhumati]]'', ''[[Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi]]'' and ''[[Yahudi]]''. The music composed by Khayyam is considered as "rich and beautiful".<ref name=songs>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI1wqkWsIjYC&q=phir+subah+hogi&pg=PA283 |title=Hindi Film Song: Music Beyond Boundaries |last=Ranade |first=Ashok |year=2006 |publisher=Bibliophile South Asia |isbn=8185002649 |page=283 |access-date=1 May 2012}}</ref> Songs like "Chin-O-Arab Hamara" and "Woh Subah Kabhi To Aayegi" penned by Sahir Ludhianvi were satirical on the condition of India and the Nehruvian politics.<ref name=songs /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jOtkAAAAMAAJ&q=phir+subah+hogi |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema |last1=Rajadhyaksha |first1=Ashish |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |publisher=British Film Institute |year=1994 |isbn=0-85170-455-7 |page=117 |access-date=1 May 2012}}</ref> "Chin-o-Arab Hamara" was a parody on Iqbal's song "[[Saare Jahan Se Achcha]]".<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&q=phir+subah+hogi&pg=PT316 |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema |last1=Gulzar |first2= Govind |last2=Nihalani |first3= Saibal |last3= Chatterjee |publisher=Popular Prakashan |year= 2003 |page=289 |isbn=8179910660 |access-date=1 May 2012}}</ref>

== Trivia ==
[[Lal Krishna Advani]], a senior leader of "Bharatiya Janata Party", many a time in his speeches has talked about watching this movie along with his friend and colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Advani reminisces that former [[prime minister]] [[Atal Behari Vajpayee]] was very fond of watching movies. He narrated an incident where in 1958 he and Vajpayee, after facing an electoral defeat in [[Delhi Municipal Corporation]] election, straightaway went to watch a movie.{{Citation needed|reason=a reference is needed for this anecdote|date=June 2017}} Advani says that the film turned out to be ''Phir Subah Hogi''. Advani says that after Vajpayee became PM, he told party workers that the title of the movie had turned out to be prophetic and there was finally a dawn.{{Citation needed|reason=a reference is needed for this anecdote|date=June 2017}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0268533|title= Phir Subha Hogi}}

[[Category:1958 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1950s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1958 romantic drama films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Khayyam]]

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