'Meera' (1947)- Hindi Film on the life of Meerabai

Dear Friends, today I am going to tell you about very special film- 'Meera', which was made way back in 1947 and the surprising fact is that the famous classical singer M S Subbhalakshmi played the role of Meera in this film.

At first, this film was made in a south Indian language, in the year 1945. After seeing its success there,  a Hindi version of the film was also releasd in 1947, with reshooting some of the scenes in Vrindavan, Dwarka, Chitor and some other places. So some of the scenes have dubbing over the original south Indian language, and some scenes have direct Hindi dialogues.

All the songs are sung by M S Subbhalakshmi herself, as we can expect. The intensity of Meera's devotion can be felt thr' each of the songs. The music is typical of that time, slow and classical based. 

This Black and White film was directed by Mr. Ellis R Dungan. , who was originally not from India but came to India and made many films while staying in this country.

The film portarays Meera's journey very nicely, we can feel her emotions, her longing for the Lord and at last, her merging with the Lord!!

Now let me tell you how I came to know about this film. Recently, it was shown on DD National or DD Bharti on a Sunday (may be) night, from 10 pm. It was just a  coincidence that I tuned that channel at 11 pm and watched the film till its end at 12:30 am. Loved it indeed!!!

Then next day I searched about the film on the internet and here are the links of all those article/ videos which I have got. You'll be able to know many more facts about the film by visiting all these pages-



Here is a beautiful and elaborate blog post on the film, great writing by the author of that blog-

'M. S. Subbulakshmi’s Hindi Meera (1947)'

http://cinemacorridor.blogspot.in/2009/12/m-s-subbulakshmis-hindi-meera-1947.html



If we search YT with the words- "meera 1947 full movie hindi", we get these results-

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=meera+1947+full+movie+hindi&oq=Meera+194&gs_l=youtube.1.4.0l6.70060.75051.0.78196.9.9.0.0.0.0.1362.6761.2-1j1j0j3j1j3.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.T6gP3kdTeM0


List of songs and some lyrics are available here -

http://www.hindigeetmala.com/movie/meera_1947.htm

 Listen to Audio version of ALL the songs-

http://hindi-films-songs.com/realmeera47.html

A report (video)

http://www.indiavideo.org/cinema/meera-hindi-film-7610.php

A Report (written)

http://hindu.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004121700410500.htm&date=2004/12/17/&prd=fr&
http://www.hindu.com/cp/2008/03/28/stories/2008032850441600.htm
http://atulsongaday.me/2012/04/10/morey-to-giridhar-gopal-doosaro-na-koyi/


Download some audio songs from here-

http://mp3ale.com/meera-1947-mp3-download.html


It is really sad that that Hindi version of this film is not there on YouTube, only the Tamil version is there. We will be very happy if someone uploads the Hindi version of the movie there.


Do watch it if you have a chance, anywhere.

And also you can always listen to the songs online, from thoses links given above.



With lots of Love for all,


Jai Shri Krishna.


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