V. Shantaram began directing movies in the silent era, with NETAJI PALKAR (1927) being his first release. The last movie that he directed was JHANJHAAR (1987). In this six decade career, he gave great classics like DUNIYA NA MAANE (1936), Dr. KOTNIS KI AMAR KAHANI (1946), DO AANKHE BARAH HAATH (1957) and GEET GAYA PATTHARON NE (1964), all representing idealism, hope and social messages.
With BOOND JO BAN GAYI MOTI (1967), he balances ideological aspirations with worldly realities. Seen through the Bollywood Prism, it shows how, two decades after independence, India was just beginning to lose hope, a feeling that was to dominate India in the coming decade.
It was V. Shantaram, who gave Jitendra his first break in his classic GEET GAYA PATTHARON NE in 1964. BOOND JO BAN GAYI MOTI, which came three years later saw Jitendra continuing in the Shantaram mould, with a more mature and a more impressive role than his first outing. The movie has the stamp of V Shantaram all right, but there were many remarkable aspects about it. For instance, the movie has a typical Bollywood item song of the sixties, which showed that even the great masters were struggling to survive with the changing taste of India by that time. Another such aspect was Mumtaz in a new avatar that became her style in the subsequent years, especially during her very successful pairing with Rajesh Khanna.
