The Thakur has adopted the abandoned baby and named him Shankar. Where the baby is, however, nobody knows. Even as the Maharaja dies (having first, conveniently, handed over to a faithful servitor a distinctive locket that is the emblem of royal power in Belapur), news arrives that the expected prince has perished in a boat accident along with his wife, though their baby has survived. He has been waiting anxiously for the return of his son, but the Grim Reaper has outstripped the heir to the throne. The baby is the only one who survives, and he is rescued by the servant of a Thakur (DK Sapru).įar away, in the princely state of Belapur, the ruling Maharaja (Murad) is breathing his last. The film begins with a disaster: a boat, with seemingly only three people on board-a man, his wife and their baby-capsizes. If for nothing else than Naushad’s music. Mishmash, hard to bear?īut when I posted a Naushad song list in tribute on Naushad’s birth centenary last year, several people mentioned the songs of Dil Diya Dard Liya, and I decided it was time to take the plunge. Perhaps it is because I had been told by knowledgeable readers that it was based on Wuthering Heights-and I could imagine what a confluence of Wuthering Heights (dark, grim, with two thoroughly selfish and unlikeable leads) and typical Bollywood (melodramatic, with no lead capable of being anything but noble, even if it’s only in the final analysis)-would be like. Despite its having a cast of several people whom I like a lot (Waheeda Rehman, Dilip Kumar, Pran, Rehman, Shyama), a music director whom I like a lot (Naushad) and being by no means an unknown film, Dil Diya Dard Liya is one I’d never got around to watching.
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