Bollywood Saturday: Do You Know Naaz Was The First Hindi Film Shot Abroad?

Bollywood Saturday: Ashok Kumar-Nalini Jaywant starrer Naaz (1954) created a milestone within the historical past of Indian cinema. Filmmaker S Okay Ojha’s grand imaginative and prescient occurred a lot earlier than Raj Kapoor shot Sangam (1964) at Switzerland and Paris. A handful lot fascinated by yesteryear’s classics think about Sangam to be the primary Hindi film to be shot abroad. The identical has been reported by a number of leisure portals as properly. But in truth it was Naaz directed by Ojha which was filmed at Cairo, Egypt. The filmmaker needed to create a visible spectacle for the viewers and therefore, selected Cairo as one in every of  the taking pictures places. A sure portion of Naaz was filmed at London, United Kingdom, as properly. In one in every of its posters Nalini Jaywant was introduced as an Egyptian Goddess as a part of the movie’s advertising and marketing technique.Also Read – Bollywood Saturday: Did You Know This Song From Mughal-E-Azam Was Finalised After Rejecting 105 Songs?

Ashok Kumar in a Machismo Avatar

Naaz is neither obtainable on YouTube, nor there may be any data relating to its story or filmmaking on Wikipedia. It is a identified incontrovertible fact that in India movie historical past is among the most uncared for topics. While within the west even silent period classics are preserved as archives for the scholars of cinema. Ashok Kumar, in any other case well-known for taking part in character roles showcased his machismo a lot earlier than Dharmendra, Salman Khan, Hirthik Roshan and Ranveer Singh. A naked chested, shirtless, clean-shaven Ashok Kumar is seen in among the film stills and scenes posted on the social media. Also Read – Bollywood Saturday: Did You Know Raj Kapoor’s RK Logo Has a Leo Tolstoy Connection?

Check out this foyer card from Naaz:

Bollywood Saturday: Do You Know Ashok Kumar Starrer Naaz Was The First Hindi Film Shot Abroad?

Naaz Was Marketed Using Egyptian Paintings

The solely reference to the movie are the foyer playing cards, i.e. the publicity materials previous to posters used to draw viewers’s to theatres throughout the Nineteen Fifties. The foyer playing cards for Naaz had plenty of Egyptian work and drawings within the background to advertise the film as distinctive and trendy storytelling. Naaz was the primary movie of impartial India to be shot overseas. However, some historians declare {that a} 1939 Indian movie throughout British interval was the primary movie to be shot in Africa. But there isn’t any proof or doc regarding the movie. The movie had each Hindi and English titles respectively referred to as Africa Me Hind and India Me Africa. Also Read – Bollywood Saturday: Did You Know Bimal Roy Offered Bandini to Dharmendra Over a Meal of ‘Maach’

S Okay Ojha had additionally directed Dileep Kumar starrer Hulchul (1951) previous to Naaz.

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