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{{Infobox film
| name = Rajnigandha
| image = Rajnigandha, 1974.jpg
| director = [[Basu Chatterjee]]
| producer = Suresh Jindal
| based_on = "Yahi Sach Hai" by [[Mannu Bhandari]]
| writer =
| screenplay = [[Basu Chatterjee]]
| story = [[Manu Bhandari]]
| starring = [[Amol Palekar]] [[Vidya Sinha]] [[Dinesh Thakur]]
| music = '''Original Score & Songs:''' [[Salil Chowdhury]] '''Lyrics for songs:''' [[Yogesh (lyricist)|Yogesh]]
| cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]
| editing = [[G. G. Mayekar|G.G. Mayekar]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1974|09|13}}
| runtime = 110 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget =
}}

'''''Rajnigandha''''' ({{trans|[[Agave amica|Tuberose]]}}) is a [[Bollywood films of 1974|1974]] [[Hindi]] film directed by [[Basu Chatterjee]]. It is based on the short story "Yahi Sach Hai" by noted Hindi writer [[Mannu Bhandari]].<ref>[http://marcelproust.blogspot.com/2007/06/rajnigandha.html Rajnigandha story]</ref><ref name=abhi>[http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/gauravgatha/2004/yahi_such_hai/ysh1.htm Yahi Such Hai] www.abhivyakti-hindi.org.</ref> The movie starred [[Amol Palekar]], [[Vidya Sinha]] and [[Dinesh Thakur]] in the lead.

''Rajnigandha'' went on to win the Best Picture, the Popular Award and the Critics Award at the [[Filmfare Awards]] in 1975. It was considered to have a realistic outlook of urban middle class on cinema in 1974, an era when potboilers were ruling [[Bollywood]], a genre which was later called the Middle Cinema.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rajnigandha (1974) |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/rajnigandha-1974/article3942091.ece?source=ppc&gclid=CjwKCAjw75HWBRAwEiwAdzefxFVqWatbmnzOA_DmNV-bhf3vD_jESQe32vVeQ-jGnoqdQ4l6aXIXQhoChq4QAvD_BwE |date=September 27, 2012 |access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref> The film was the first screen role of [[Vidya Sinha]] and first Hindi film of [[Amol Palekar]], both of whom went on to work with [[Basu Chatterjee]] in many films. Rajnigandha was remade into Bengali in 2012 as ''Hothat Shedin''.

== Plot summary ==
Deepa ([[Vidya Sinha]]) is a graduate student in Delhi who is in a long-term relationship with Sanjay ([[Amol Palekar]]), whom she plans to marry. Sanjay is a loquacious, humorous, and a good individual who is also rather lackadaisical and forgetful with no sense of punctuality.

A job interview call from a college in Mumbai re-acquaints her with Navin ([[Dinesh Thakur]]) whom she had split up with under acrimonious circumstances. Navin is in every way the antithesis of Sanjay: He is very punctual and looks after her during her stay in Mumbai. Navin shows her the city and helps her with the job interview. This rekindles Deepa's feelings for him, and she finds herself torn between the two men and between her past and her present. Upon her return to Delhi, she feels that her first love (Navin) is her true love. She receives a letter stating that she has got the job in Mumbai. At the same time Sanjay comes to her house and tells her that he has got a promotion, which would require him to stay in Delhi. Deepa then feels that she should forget the past and marry Sanjay, opting not to move to Mumbai for the job.

== Cast and crew ==
===Cast===
* [[Amol Palekar]] as Sanjay
* [[Vidya Sinha]] as Deepa Kapoor
* [[Dinesh Thakur]] as Naveen
* Veena Goud as Deepa's sister-in-law
* Rajita Thakur as Ira
* Master Chicoo as Bunty
* Manju Maini as Bunty's mother
* Satya Prakash
* [[Biswajeet]] (special appearance)
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] (special appearance)

=== Crew ===
* ''Director'' : [[Basu Chatterjee]]
* ''Producer'' : Suresh Jindal
* ''Co-Producer'' : Kamal Saigal
* ''Editor'' : [[G. G. Mayekar]]
* ''Cinematographer'' : [[K. K. Mahajan]]
* ''Costume Designer'' : Shankhar Gokhale
* ''Audiographer'' : Kapil Chandra, Narendra Singh
* ''Lyrics'' : [[Yogesh (lyricist)|Yogesh Gaur]]
* ''Music Director'' : [[Salil Chowdhury]]

==Production==
===Development===
The original story, ''Yahi Sach Hai (1960)'', written in diary format was by Mannu Bhandari, an important writer of the Nayi Kahani literary movement of [[Hindi literature]] in the 1960s. While writing the screenplay, Basu Chatterjee transposed the story from [[Kanpur]] and Kolkata to Delhi and Mumbai in the film.<ref name=mum>{{cite web |title=The dreamlife of angels |publisher=Mumbai Mirror |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/trisha-gupta/the-dreamlife-of-angels/articleshow/63562668.cms |author=Trisha Gupta, Mumbai Mirror |date=April 1, 2018 |access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref><ref name=abhi/>

===Casting===
Director Basu Chatterjee's original cast was [[Shashi Kapoor]], [[Sharmila Tagore]] and [[Amitabh Bachchan]]. Then he switched to Bengali actors, [[Aparna Sen]] and [[Samit Bhanja]]. Even classical dancer [[Mallika Sarabhai]] was to be cast as lead, but her final MBA exams clashed and eventually debutante Vidya Sinha got the role after she responded to one of the ads placed by Basu Chatterjee.<ref name=mirror17>{{cite web |title=This week, That year: Memories of Rajnigandha and Vidya Sinha |publisher=Mumbai Mirror |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/this-week-that-year-memories-of-rajnigandha-and-vidya-sinha/articleshow/60505699.cms |author=Roshmila Bhattacharya |date=September 28, 2017 |access-date=2018-04-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Going back in time with Master Raju |publisher=Rediff.com movies |url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/going-back-in-time-with-master-raju/20141114.htm# |date=November 14, 2014 |access-date=2018-04-03}}</ref>

This was the first Hindi film of Amol Palekar, who at that time was a less known theater actor. In an interview in 2015 with S.M. Irfan on [[Rajya Sabha TV]], Palekar described the circumstances in which he made this switch to mainstream acting. During one of their meetings at the "Film forum" (one of the leading film societies of [[Bombay]] at that time) Basu Chatterjee showed Palekar the story "Yahi Sach Hai" by [[Mannu Bhandari]] to read. Once Palekar finished reading it, Chatterjee showed him the script that had been written based on this story. He thereafter asked him if he would like to play the leading role in it. Palekar, a trained artist from the [[J.J. School of Art|JJ School of art]] and a theater actor had at that time worked in two [[Marathi language|Marathi]] films including [[Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe|''Shaantata Court Chaalu Aahe'']], by [[Satyadev Dubey]] and [[Govind Nihalani]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Irfan |first1=S.M. |title=Interview with Amol Palekar |url=http://rstv.nic.in/promo-guftagoo.html |publisher=Rajya Sabha TV (Guftagoo) |access-date=10 November 2017}}</ref>

===Filming===

The principal photography of the film started with 20-day schedule in Mumbai in 1972, which wrapped up in 16 days. This was followed by a 15-day schedule in Delhi. However, after that the film's producer, Suresh Jindal who was also a first time film producer struggled for the next two years to obtain the remaining funding. A potential distributor even offered finance for the film if it was reshot with a different lead actor. The film was completed eventually in 1974 with same leads.<ref name=mirror17/><ref>{{cite web |title=There was always a huge calm on the set |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/there-was-always-a-huge-calm-on-the-set/article19495499.ece |author=Aseem Chhabra |date=August 15, 2017 |access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
The film's music director was [[Salil Chowdhury]] rendered commercially successful tracks and the songs were written by [[Yogesh (lyricist)|Yogesh]]. [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] sang "Kai Baar Yuheen Dekha hai," for which he won the [[National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer]].

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| all_writing =
| all_lyrics = [[Yogesh (lyricist)|Yogesh]]
| all_music = [[Salil Chowdhury]]

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| title1 = Kai Baar Yuheen Dekha hai
| note1 =
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| extra1 = [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]]
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| title2 = Rajnigandha Phool Tumhaare
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| extra2 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| length2 = 3:24
}}

==Release==
On 6 September 1974, a trial show, where [[Rajshri Productions]] bought the Mumbai territory for distribution, the film was first released with single print at [[All India Radio]]'s Akashwani theatre in South Mumbai. Thereafter through word of mouth, the film gained rapid publicity, and became a [[sleeper hit]], spreading to many theatres.<ref name=mirror17/><ref>{{cite web |publisher=The Quint |title=Basu Chatterji: The Forgotten Champion of Middle-Class Cinema |url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/basu-chatterji-middle-class-filmmaker-now-forgotten |author=Khalid Mohamed |access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref> Actor [[Amol Palekar]] who made his Hindi film debut with the film, went on to make 'Debut Silver Jubilee Hatrick' with subsequent Basu Chatterjee films, ''[[Chhoti Si Baat]]'' (1975) and ''[[Chitchor]]'' (1976), and all Silver Jubilee hits in Mumbai.

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Category !! Cast/Crew member !! Status
|-
| colspan="4" |
* '''[[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]]'''
|-
| [[22nd National Film Awards|1974]]|| [[National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer|Best Male Playback Singer]] || [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] for "Kai Baar Yoon Bhi Dekha Hai"<ref name="22ndawardPDF">{{cite web |url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/22nd_nff_1974.pdf |title=22nd National Film Awards |publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]] |access-date=1 October 2011 }}</ref>|| {{Won}}
|-
| colspan="4" |
* '''[[Filmfare Award]]'''
|-
| rowspan="2"|1975 || [[Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie|Critics Award for Best Movie]] || [[Basu Chatterjee]] || {{Won}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Film|Best Film]] || Suresh Jindal (for Devki Chitra) || {{Won}}
|-
| colspan="4" |
* '''[[BFJA Awards]]'''
|-
| rowspan="2"|1975 || [[Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Editor Award|Best Editor Award]] || G. G. Mayekar || {{Won}}
|-
| [[Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Indian Films Award|Best Indian Films Award]] || - || {{Won}}
|-
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0072064|title=Rajnigandha}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080314062639/http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/hindi_bollywood/s/movie_name.1708/ Listen to Rajnigandha songs online]
* {{YouTube|PP4sllE7wBM|Rajnigandha Phool Tumhaare}}

{{Basu Chatterjee}}
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{{FilmfareCriticsAwardBestMovie}}

[[Category:1974 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1970s romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Basu Chatterjee]]
[[Category:Films scored by Salil Chowdhury]]
[[Category:Films based on short fiction]]
[[Category:Films set in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Films set in Delhi]]
[[Category:Films shot in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Films shot in Delhi]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:1974 comedy films]]

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