{{Short description|1956 film}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=July 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Bedari | image = Bedari - Classified.jpg | caption = Classified of the film published in ''Pakistan Times'' | director = Rafiq Rizvi | producer = Wazir Ali Rizvi | writer = | narrator = | starring = {{plainlist| * Ratan Kumar * Ragni * Santosh Kumar * Meena Shorey * Qazi Wajid * Bibbo * Lehri }} | music = Fateh Ali Khan | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=y|1956|12|6}} | runtime = approx. 3 hours | country = Pakistan | language = Urdu }}
'''''Bedari''''' is a Pakistani Urdu-language black-and-white film released in 1956.
The film was premiered at Regent cinema, Lahore.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PeeREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 |title=Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 |isbn=978-1009151207 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |author=Salma Siddique |date=16 February 2023 |page=188 }}</ref> It was the first film of Ratan Kumar in Pakistan, after he moved from India with his family. ''Bedari'' was commercially successful primarily due to its songs.<ref name=GoogleBooks>{{cite book |last=Gazdar |first=Mushtaq |year=1997 |title=Pakistan Cinema, 1947-1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press via Google Books website|pages=64, 246|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOdkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Bedari|isbn=0-19-577817-0}}</ref>
''Bedari'' was a plagiarized version of Ratan Kumar's Indian film ''Jagriti'' (1954), with replacement of some words, and music was taken directly from ''Jagriti'' as well. Upon its release in 1956, it grossed well in its first few weeks. However, on the discovery of plagiarism by the cinemagoers, there was a mass uproar that caused public demonstrations against the exhibition of the film. The Censor Board of Pakistan immediately put a ban on the film.<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1217564 |title=Paying plagiarised tribute to Quaid |author=Sayed GB Shah Bokhari|newspaper= Dawn newspaper|date=5 November 2015|access-date=25 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816090352/https://www.dawn.com/news/1217564 |archive-date=16 August 2022 }}</ref><ref name=Scroll/>
==Cast== * Ratan Kumar<ref name=GoogleBooks/> * Ragni<ref name=GoogleBooks/> * Santosh Kumar<ref name=GoogleBooks/> * Meena Shorey * Lehri * Qazi Wajid * Bibbo
==Music== The music of the film was composed by Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, a veteran Pakistani sitar player. The songs were written by Fayyaz Hashmi, and sung by Munawwar Sultana and Saleem Raza. A song which was a straight lift of the 'De Di Humein Azaadi' tune was titled Aye Quaid-e-Azam Tera Ehsaan Hai Ehsaan. The lines 'De di humein azaadi bina khadag bina dhal/ Sabarmati ke sant tu ne kar diya kamaal' had been changed to 'De di humein azaadi kay duniya huyi hairaan/ Aye Quaid-e-Azam tera ehsaan hai ehsaan'. In other words, a song celebrating the Indian Father of the Nation had been transposed to eulogize his Pakistani counterpart.<ref name=Scroll>{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/771358/gandhi-replaced-with-jinnah-the-story-of-how-an-ode-to-india-was-plagarised-in-pakistan |title=Gandhi replaced with Jinnah: The story of how an ode to India was plagiarised in Pakistan|author= Rudradeep Bhattacharjee|website=Scroll.in website|date=28 December 2015|access-date=15 July 2021}}</ref>
* {{Transliteration|ur|Aey Qaid-e-Azam, tera ehsan hai ehsan}}, by Munawwar Sultana<ref name=Dawn/><ref name=Scroll/> * {{Transliteration|ur|Hum laayein hain toofan se kashti nikaal ke}}, by Saleem Raza<ref name=Dawn/> * {{Transliteration|ur|Aao Bachho Sair Karain Tum Ko Pakistan Ki}}, by Saleem Raza * {{Transliteration|ur|Chalo Chalen Maan Sapnon ke Gaon Mein}}
Highlight of this film was its popular film songs and music. Ustad Fateh Ali Khan was the foremost sitar player at that time in Pakistan and composed the music of this film. Bedari was also a debut film of now renowned Pakistani actor Qazi Wajid who, as a teenage student, played a very funny role of a student with a stammer disorder.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1388876 |title=OBITUARY: QAZI WAJID'S LAST ACT SADDENS FANS|author=Omair Alvi|date=12 February 2018|newspaper=Dawn newspaper|access-date=15 July 2021}}</ref>
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== External links== * {{IMDb title|1199437}}
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