Talabgar - Clip 1
Director: Khalek Halil
Duration: 00:06:46; Aspect Ratio: 1.366:1; Hue: 238.660; Saturation: 0.012; Lightness: 0.257; Volume: 0.098; Cuts per Minute: 9.293; Words per Minute: 66.526
Summary: Date (Afghan Calendar): 1348
A 45 minute black and white film originally produced as part of a three-part anthology film called Rozgaran (each part with a different director). 'Talabgar' (directed by Khaleq Halil) translates loosely as 'the one who asks' and in the case of this 40-minute film the one who asks is specifically the man who asks a girl's parents for their permission to court their daughter. Two clips digitised during workshop, full film should be done later.
Footage Source: Afghan Films DVCAM tape transfer
Translated by Rajni Prakash
Most of the film is a daffy comedy (with the appropriate, if somewhat tacked-on, moral ending) about a gambler trying to cheat his way into the good graces of a wealthy family whose daughter he wishes to marry.
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SUITOR
Ghazaal Ibrahimi in the role of Sima
Khan Agha Sarwar in the role of Nasir
Rafiq Sadiq in the role of father
Let's go to Mazar Mullah Mohammad Jaan
To see the field of tulip flowers, my beloved
Habiba Askar in the role of mother
And
Mujhgan in the role of Huma
Yahya Shorangiz in the role of Zalmai
Mehdi Shafa in the role of Lala Ko
Javid Popal in the role of Akbar
And with
Rukhshana
Music consultant:
Jalil Zaland
Orchestra:
Radio Afghanistan
Assistant preparation and production:
Mohammad Kabir Durani
Mohammad Tahir
Khair Mohammad Hussaini
Photographer: Khalilullah Saeed
Lightman: Ghulam Sakhi Sultan Zada
Makeup man: Najibullah Sultani
Printing and laboratory:
Sultan Mohammad
Sayed Karim
Sayed Mustafa
Assistant camera man:
Mohammad Osman Sediqzada
Mahmood Noori
Song recording and effect:
Sayed Mohammad Ali Alami
Abdul Rahman Sefati
Go and tell my lover that your lover has come
Narcissus flower, your buyer has come
Arrangement and editing:
Torialai Alokozai
Assistant:
Jalaluddin Pirooz
Camera man
Sona Ram Talwar (Sonaram Talwar)
Sonaram Talwar was a cameraman from FTII who joined Afghan Films. A lot of the archival footage has been filmed by Talwar himself between 1968 and 1980.
Arrangement of background music: Ustad Hashim
Story: Ghulam Ali Omid
Scenarist and Director: Khaliq (Alil)
Go and tell my lover your eyes be enlightened
Your same faithful lover has come
Head of production: Abdul Samad Asefi
Producer: Sultan Hamid Hashem
Let's go to Mazar Mullah Mohammad Jaan
To see the field of tulip flowers, my beloved
Which direction do we have to take now, sir?
Let's go from the university road.
What's the point?
I might get to see Sima jaan.
Go straight.
No, take the right turn, my good man.
Come my beloved as I am your life,
I am dying for your ruby colored lips that are like wine.
Tell me how much money is left.
You saw it; we will still have our milk and Parantha.
May you have a long life.
I am not kissing the lip of the goblet of wine
I am worried and upset about you
Let's go to Mazar Mullah Mohammad Jaan
To see the field of tulip flowers, my beloved
That is the girl I love!
Follow that bus, my good man. Fast!
Respected audience, now we are going to listen to Zaland's song
Let's go.
I am a lover; I am a lover, come, my beloved
I am a lover; I am a lover, come, my beloved
Sir, I know this girl. She is Salim Khan's daughter.
I know. I do not care whose daughter she is. I won't let her go.
I am drunk with the fantasy of joining you,
Your gaze is enough to do me in,
if someone wants to convince me to fall into your net.
I am a lover: I am a lover, come, my beloved
You are fair, so don't wear a black dress,
You are ruthless and you kill me with your glances.
Okay, if you love her so much, the only way around this is by tricking her family into it; otherwise, it would be impossible.
Listen, her family has already been tricked. Your brother (me) has already wooed her.
What are you saying?
You know
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