Daag, 1952 Director: Amiya Chakraborty Music Directors: Shankar, Jaikishan Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri, Shailendra Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Talat Mahmood Cast: Dilip Kumar as Shankar Nimmi as Parvati "Paro" Usha Kiran as Pushpa "Pushpi" Lalita Pawar as Shankar's Mother Kanhaiyalal as Lala Jagatnarayan Leela Mishra as Mrs. Jagatnarayan C. S. Dubey as Heera Jawahar Kaul as Shyam Sundar Krishnakant as Money Lender Laxman Rao as Raghunath A short plot description on letterboxed.com: Paro loves Shankar, but Shankar loves the bottle more. Sadness, shame and self-sacrificing ensue. But does anyone do broken hearted innocence like Nimmi? Not even sudden palatial wealth and snazzy gowns can take that away from her because there's always a windswpt meadow to wander through or a column to mournfully lean against. Incidentally, Shankar read the same book on how to be a tragic lover. The Encyclopedia Of Indian cinema has this to say about Daag: In Chakravarty’s melodrama about class division and the evils of alcohol, Shankar (Kumar), a nice village youth who makes clay statues, is parted from his sweetheart Parvati (Nimmi) when her family inherits a fortune. In addition, he is an alcoholic who devotes all his wealth, property and even the money for his ailing mother’s medicines on drink. The maudlin plot comes alive only through Nimmi’s uncanny knack for larger-than-life gestures. The film’s remembered song is Talat Mahmood’s Ai mere dil kahin aur chal. Dilip Kumar won a FilmFare Best Actor award for Daag. Daag was the 4th highest grossing film of 1952 after Aan, Baiju Bawra and Jaal.