Musafir (1957)

Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Music by: Salil Choudhary

Starring: David, Suchitra Sen, Sekhar, Bipin Gupta, Durga Khote, Mohan Chhoti, Nirupa Roy,

Nasir Hussain, Kishore Kumar, Usha Kiron, Paul Mahendra, Daisy Irani and Dilip Kumar

Encouraged by Dilip Kumar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, erstwhile film editor and one-time assistant to Bimal Roy, turned independent producer / director with this film. He chose a rather unusual subject for his maiden venture. Like the other 40 films in his long and prolific career, Musafir too dealt with the joys and sorrows of the ordinary lives of the ordinary man and woman.

Lakh lakh makaan aur in mein rehnewala karodan insaan… Musafir teen kirayedaron ke jeevan chakron ki kahani hai jo ki ek ke baad ek is makaan mein rehne aate hai intones the narrator (Balraj Sahni), as the camera pans to an ordinary looking house in an ordinary suburb.