Sharabi (1964)

Harmesh Malhotra the director of such blockbusters as Nagina and Dulhe Raja is assistant director of this Film.Rajinder Krishan is the lyric writer.Madan Mohan is the music director.Rajrishi is the director .

it has good songs ,the melodious "Sawan Ke Mahine Mein" sung by Mohd. Rafi,two mischievous song "Jao Ji Jao"."Tum Ho Haseen Kahan Ke".others are "Mujhe Le Chalon","Kabhi Na Kabhi" and "Do Do Haath".

Sharabi(1964) is Madhubala's last film she died in 1969 though another of her film Jwala with Sunil Dutt was released after her death 7 years after Sharabi was released.

its an excellent film with a well written script which brings on celluloid the life of an alcoholic played by Dev Anand.he does complete justice to his part infusing life in his character rising above the script and giving the role something of his own,a hallmark of any great actor.

Lalita Pawar plays the alcoholic's mother.she portrays her role powerfully bringing to life her character.a strong willed mother who desperately wants her son to change, to give up booze and to lead a normal life.this is definitely one of her best roles besides Anari's Mrs D'Souza.her confrontation scenes with Dev Anand are great and quite emotionally exhausting.a mother who loves her son too much but has to be strict to change his drinking habit.

Madhubala as always is heartwarming and immensely beautiful.she is superb in this film,one of her best and a very different film from her earlier ones.she is in love with the alcoholic (Dev Anand).after his father's death he promises his mother he will not drink.he took up work in Madhubala's father's office.spring is again smiling on them.they are soon engaged to be married.meanwhile his mother goes away for a day.he gets extremely painful alcoholic pangs and drinks wine.his mother gets upset when she finds him in drunk state.he again takes to alcohol.his mother can no longer see his degradation and leaves.Dev Anand in his drunk state creates a scene outside Madhubala's home.her father gets furious seeing him like this bringing his name to shame. he breaks off engagement.

Dev Anand follows his mother to a coal mining village.Madhubala's father dies and she also reaches there in search of him.alcoholic's mother think of her as her own daughter asks her to stay.Dev Anand never gives up drinking and his mother asks him to leave.also at the bar when his mother breaks his booze bottle he gets extremely mad and tries to strangle her.

in his state of intoxication he reaches his place of work,the coal mine field.there they break coal rocks with explosive materials.he is given the work of blasting the coal rocks.he sets the blast at the wrong time when lots of people are working in the mine.there are many casualties ,his mother who has taken work in the mine as a daily laborer gets badly hurt.Dev Anand goes to jail.next day he takes permission to see his mother at the hospital.his heart shatters when he discovers that because of his carelessness his drunk state his own mother has lost both of her legs.film ends with him going away to the prison.

a very realistic and an entertaining film bringing to fore the evil of alcoholism.how a human being becomes a devil when he is drunk.how it ruins not one life but several others.a lovely classic film still very fresh and spellbinding.