Miss Mala

Miss Mala
Directed byJayant Desai
Starring
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Miss Mala is a 1954 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Jayant Desai. The film's soundtrack was composed by Chitragupt. It was one of the several "dance comedies" co-acted by Kishore Kumar and Vyjayanthimala.

According to Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography, Miss Mala was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), although the authors describe it as a romantic comedy rather than a psychological thriller.

Miss Mala premiered in Bombay on 14 May 1954 and was described by The Times of India as a "sparkling musical".

A review in Swatantra, however, was critical of the film, commenting that "one could say Jayant Desai has done to Hitchcock's Spellbound what Hitler did to Poland."

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References

  1. ↑ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1999). Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. British Film Institute. pp. 84, 619. ISBN 9780851706696.
  2. 1 2 Rangoonwalla, Firoze; Das, Vishwanath (1970). Indian Filmography: Silent & Hindi Films, 1897-1969. J. Udeshi. p. 306.
  3. ↑ Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1999, pp. 133, 238.
  4. ↑ Iyer, Usha (2 October 2020). Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-19-093875-8.
  5. ↑ Bhattacharjee, Anirudha; Dhar, Parthiv (2022). Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography. HarperCollins India. p. 146. ISBN 978-93-5629-171-3.
  6. ↑ "Jayant Desai's "Miss Mala" A Sparkling Musical: Our Film Critic". The Times of India. 16 May 1954. p. 3.
  7. ↑ Sathe, V. P. (1954). Swatantra. p. 45.