Cinema
Teri Yaad
Daud Chand · 1948
Synopsis
Before dying, a rich man bequeaths his fortune to his newborn daughter and to the son, also a newborn, of a dear friend. Having grown greedy, the friend wants the whole inheritance and has the little girl killed. The widow, who learns of it, forces him to flee the city with the help of a doctor, then adopts an orphan whom she presents as her own daughter, in order to keep the property in accordance with the will. As she grows up, the young woman falls in love with the friend's son, which the widow cannot accept.
Context
Released on 7 August 1948, the day of Eid, at the Parbhat cinema on McLeod Road in Lahore, where it ran for five weeks, the film starred Nasir Khan, younger brother of Dilip Kumar, and Asha Posley; the music was by Inayat Ali Nath, the cinematography by Raza Mir. Scroll notes its poor production values compared with the Indian films still circulating in the country, but sees in it the birth of an industry that would produce more than a hundred films a year in the seventies.
Who it is for
In Urdu; a musical melodrama, whose interest lies mainly in its place in the history of Pakistani cinema.
Prizes and reception
The very first film released in Pakistan after independence, according to Scroll, and the starting point of Lahore cinema.