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{{Short description|1978 Indian Hindi-language film by Raj Kapoor}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Satyam Shivam Sundaram
| image = Satyam Shivam Sundaram.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Raj Kapoor]]
| producer = Raj Kapoor
| writer = [[Jainendra Jain (screenwriter)|Jainendra Jain]]
| narrator = Raj Kapoor
| starring = [[Shashi Kapoor]]<br />[[Zeenat Aman]]
| music = [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
| cinematography = [[Radhu Karmakar]]
| editing = Raj Kapoor
| studio = [[R. K. Studio]]
| distributor = [[Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd.]]
| released = {{Film date|1978|03|24|df=yes}}
| runtime = 172 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Satyam Shivam Sundaram''''' ({{Translation|''The Truth, the God, the Beauty''}}){{Efn|name=mean}} is a 1978 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[romantic drama]] film produced and directed by [[Raj Kapoor]] and written by [[Jainendra Jain (screenwriter)|Jainendra Jain]], starring [[Shashi Kapoor]] and [[Zeenat Aman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/satyam-shivam-sundaram-love-sublime|title=Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref> It talks about the differences between physical and spiritual love. The film was released on 24 March 1978 on the day of [[Holi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/zeenat-aman-unveils-the-bts-drama-of-satyam-shivam-sundaram-song-chanchal-sheetal-nirmal-komal-4382256|title=Why Zeenat Aman Burst Into Tears During Satyam Shivam Sundaram Song - Read About The "Drama"|work=NDTV |date=12 September 2023}}</ref> Heavily publicized before release, ''Satyam Shivam Sundaram'' ran for 29 weeks in [[Kolkata]]'s [[Metro Cinema (Kolkata)|Metro Cinema]] thus emerging a blockbuster in [[West Bengal]] and a hit elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=6042|title=All Time Longest Runners In Kolkata: Sholay 2nd - HAHK 4th}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bobbytalkscinema.com/bobbytalk/adminpanel/imagetemp/Film-Inf-1978-Classification.jpg|title=Film Information Classification (1978)|access-date=14 December 2024|archive-date=30 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240830074833/https://www.bobbytalkscinema.com/bobbytalk/adminpanel/imagetemp/Film-Inf-1978-Classification.jpg|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Plot ==
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The story is set in a village where Roopa lives with her father, the village priest. As a child, the right side of Roopa's face and neck were burned by a pot of boiling oil, leaving part of her face disfigured. Henceforth, Roopa keeps her right cheek hidden under the veil of her sari. Despite the terrible accident, Roopa remains religious and goes to the village temple daily, singing hymns and devotional songs.

Rajeev is a dashing [[engineer]] who arrives in the village to oversee the operation of a major dam. He abhors anything ugly. He hears Roopa's lovely singing and meets her, but does not see her disfigured side, and falls in love with her. He then asks her father's permission to marry her. Rupa does not want to cheat Rajeev because she loves him deeply and first request his father to reject the marriage proposal. But everyone from the village requests her to change her mind and thereby she agrees to marry Rajeev thinking he may accept her with her condition as he claimed to love her truly.

After the wedding, Rajeev discovers the truth and thinks that he was cheated and forced to marry someone else, at that point he disowns Roopa and drives her out of the house. Rajeev roams around the village on the wedding night in search of another Roopa, as he thinks there is another girl with the same name, waiting for him. On the other side, after being rejected by Rajeev on their wedding night, Roopa decided to commit suicide but was rescued by Rajeev, when he thought he found the girl he falls in love with, not his wife. After being rescued, Roopa decides to meet him at night, using a veil to hide the scarred side of her face. Rajeev spends his days ignoring his wife, and his nights loving his mistress, not knowing they are both the same woman.

During one of their nights together, they make love and Roopa gets pregnant. When Rajeev finds out that his wife is pregnant, he accuses her of infidelity and refuses to believe that his "mistress" and wife are the same. He publicly shames her and sends her back to her home. Seeing it, Roopa's father dies out of agony. Roopa vows that she will never ever return to Rajeev as his mistress.

A terrible storm ravages the village, breaking open the dam which Rajeev had come to repair. The village is being evacuated as the dam's shutters are opening. While moving from the village with her uncle, Roopa (without veil on her face) sings the bhajan and Rajeev, who comes in search of his mistress recognizes her voice and realizes that his wife and mistress is one. In the swirling waters of the flood, Rajeev sees how shallow he has been, and saves Roopa from drowning. He, asks for Roopa's forgiveness and accepts Roopa as his wife.

== Cast ==
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* [[Shashi Kapoor]] as Rajeev, a civil engineer
* [[Zeenat Aman]] as Roopa, a village girl
* [[Padmini Kolhapure]] as Young Roopa
* [[Kanhaiyalal (actor)|Kanhaiyalal]] as Pandit Shyam Sunder, village priest
* [[A. K. Hangal]] as Bansi, Roopa's uncle
* [[Hari Shivdasani]] as Chief Engineer
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar]] as Bade Babu
* [[Leela Chitnis]] as Bade Babu's wife
* Vishwa Mehra as Jai Singh
* Sheetal as Champa
* Monika as Roopa's friend
* Subroto Mahapatra as Shastry, Roopa's prospective father-in-law
* [[Javed Khan Amrohi|Javed Khan]] as Shastry's son
* [[Tun Tun]] as Fat Lady
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== Production ==
In her book ''Raj Kapoor Speaks'', Ritu Nanda reveals that [[Lata Mangeshkar]] was the inspiration behind the film and that he wanted to cast her in the movie; "I visualised the story of a man falling for a woman with an ordinary face but a golden voice and wanted to cast Lata Mangeshkar in the role, the book quotes Raj Kapoor as saying."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120126060223/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Books/Raj-Kapoor-The-face-behind-the-star/Article1-254712.aspx Hindustan Times]</ref> Before [[Zeenat Aman]] was cast in the role, [[Hema Malini]], [[Dimple Kapadia]], [[Vidya Sinha]] were offered the role, but they refused because of sensual content and body exposure in the film.<ref>{{cite news|title=Blast from the Past-Satyam Shivam Sundarma (1978)|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-columns/blast-from-the-past-satyam-shivam-sundaram-1977/article6445425.ece|access-date=20 October 2014|agency=Hindu|work=The Hindu|date=25 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/report/i-still-regret-saying-no-to-raj-kapoor-for-satyam-shivam-sundaram/20150113.htm|title='I still regret saying no to Raj Kapoor for Satyam Shivam Sundaram'|website=Rediff}}</ref> [[Rajesh Khanna]] was almost offered the male lead role in the film, but [[Raj Kapoor]] was later convinced to cast [[Shashi Kapoor]] instead.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rajesh Khanna was originally supposed to star opposite Zeenat Aman in 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' and not Shashi Kapoor – Exclusive! |website=[[The Times of India]] |date=29 December 2021 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/rajesh-khanna-was-originally-supposed-to-star-opposite-zeenat-aman-in-satyam-shivam-sundaram-and-not-shashi-kapoor-exclusive/articleshow/88573940.cms}}</ref>

== Music ==
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{{Infobox album
| name = Satyam Shivam Sundaram
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 1978
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Feature film soundtrack]]
| length =
| label = Saregama
| producer = Laxmikant–Pyarelal
| prev_title = [[Badalte Rishtey]]
| prev_year = 1978
| next_title = [[Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan (film)|Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan]]
| next_year = 1978
}}

[[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]'s music won the [[Filmfare Best Music Director Award]]. [[Lata Mangeshkar]] lends her voice to the main theme song "Satyam Shivam Sundaram", which was among the chart-toppers of the year, and remains a chartbuster. Various recent music groups from both India and the United States, such as [[Thievery Corporation]] and [[Sheila Chandra]], have re-done the theme song from the movie. 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 (music)|bhangra]]-like version, a different style). The song "Chanchal Sheetal Nirmal Komal" was the last song of the popular singer [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]], who died soon after recording the song. Raj Kapoor dedicated the film to him.

[[Mangeshkar]] at the time of recording the main theme song was in dispute that the initial selected Music Director was her brother [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]] but he was replaced with [[Laxmikant Pyarelal]] overnight. She has conveyed that she came for the recording, practiced the song for a short while, sang the song in anger in one take, and left. This was her one of the song recorded in not more than 30 minutes.

* "Satyam Shivam Sundaram" was listed at #6 on [[Binaca Geetmala annual list 1977]]
* "Yashomati Maiya Se" was listed at #7 on [[Binaca Geetmala annual list 1978]]
* "Chanchal Sheetal Nirmal Komal" was listed at #24 on [[Binaca Geetmala annual list 1978]]

{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Song !!Singers
!Raga!!Lyricist !!Time
|-
|"Satyam Shivam Sundaram"
|Lata Mangeshkar & Chorus
|[[Darbari Kanada]]
|[[Pandit Narendra Sharma]]
|5:05
|-
|"Bhor Bhaye Panghat Pe"
|Lata Mangeshkar
|[[Bhairavi (Hindustani)]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Anand Bakshi]]
|5:30
|-
|"Woh Aurat Hai Too Mehbooba"
|Lata Mangeshkar, [[Nitin Mukesh]]
|
|5:00
|-
|"Chanchal Sheetal Nirmal Komal"
|[[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] & Chorus
|
|5:50
|-
|"Saiyan Nikas Gaye"
|Lata Mangeshkar, [[Bhupinder Singh (musician)|Bhupinder Singh]]
|[[Shivaranjani]]
|[[Vitthalbhai Patel]]
|4:45
|-
|"Suni Jo Unke Aane Ki Aahat"
| rowspan="2" |Lata Mangeshkar
|[[Yaman (raga)]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Pandit Narendra Sharma]]
|3:20
|-
|"Satyam Shivam Sundaram"
|
|6:15
|-
|"Yashomati Maiya Se Bole Nandlala"
|Lata Mangeshkar, [[Manna Dey]]
|[[Bilaval]]
|3:45
|-
|"Yashomati Maiya Se Bole Nandlala"
|Lata Mangeshkar
|[[Bhairavi (Hindustani)]]
|3:10
|-
|"Shree Radha Mohan Shyam Shobhan"
|Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey & chorus
|
|2:50
|-
|"Shri Radhamohan"
|[[Manna Dey]]
|
|2:55
|}

== Accolades ==
;[[26th Filmfare Awards]]<nowiki>:</nowiki><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf|title=Filmfare Award Nominees and Winner 1953–2005}}</ref>
;Won
* [[Filmfare Best Music Director Award|Best Music Director]] – [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] – [[Radhu Karmakar]]

;Nominated
* [[Filmfare Best Director Award|Best Director]] – [[Raj Kapoor]]
* [[Filmfare Best Actress Award|Best Actress]] – [[Zeenat Aman]]
* [[Filmfare Best Lyricist Award|Best Lyricist]] – [[Pandit Narendra Sharma]] for "Satyam Shivam Sundaram"
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer|Best Male Playback Singer]] – [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]] for "Chanchal Sheetal" (posthumous)

== Controversy ==

The film's exhibition, which [[Nudity in film|contains nudity]], was challenged at the time of its release by a man named Laxman from [[Himachal Pradesh]] on obscenity grounds and for also for juxtaposing a religious title with such content.{{Efn|Satyam Shivam Sundaram ("सत्यं शिवं सुन्दरम्") means the realization of truth and beauty through [[Shiva]] (cf. "Truth, Goodness, and Beauty" in [[Transcendentals]]).|name=mean}} A prosecution under section 292 of the [[Indian Penal Code]] was lodged against director [[Raj Kapoor]] for promoting "obscenity" through the film. The local magistrate court took [[Judicial notice|cognisance]] and summons/notice was issued to Kapoor. The notice was challenged by Kapoor before the [[Himachal Pradesh High Court]] but the High Court did not interfere, Kapoor then approached the [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] which found merit in Kapoor's contention and quashed the prosecution at the threshold. It noted that once a certificate under section 5(a) of the ''Cinematograph Act'' has been granted, the filmmaker is covered by protection under section 79 of the Indian Penal Code which states, "Nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law, or who because of a mistake of fact and not because of a mistake of law in good faith, believes himself to be justified by law, in doing it." Justice Iyer in the concluding paragraph has made following observation highlighting the responsibility of the [[Censor Board of India|Censor Board]], "And the Board, alive to its public duty, shall not play to the gallery; nor shall it restrain aesthetic expression and progressive art through obsolete norms and grandma inhibition when the world is wheeling forward to glimpse the beauty of creation in its myriad manifestations and liberal horizons, A happy balance is to maintained."<ref>{{Cite web |author-link=Anuja Chauhan |date=18 June 2022 |title=Shivling is omnipresent |url=https://www.theweek.in/columns/anuja-chauhan/2022/06/18/shivling-is-omnipresent.html |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=[[The Week India]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite LIIofIndia|litigants=Raj Kapoor VS Laxman|link=https://supremetoday.ai/doc/judgement/00100018584|court=INSC|year=1979|date=14 December 1979|parallelcite=1980 0 AIR(SC) 605|courtname=auto|num=773}}</ref>

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0078204|Satyam Shivam Sundaram}}

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[[Category:1978 films]]
[[Category:1978 Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1978 Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Raj Kapoor]]
[[Category:Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
[[Category:Indian erotic drama films]]
[[Category:R. K. Films films]]
[[Category:1970s erotic drama films]]
[[Category:1978 drama films]]
[[Category:Obscenity controversies in film]]
[[Category:Film censorship in India]]
[[Category:Films subject to a lawsuit]]
[[Category:Censored films]]

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