This Bollywood film was made in 23 years, actors and director died midway, was labelled ‘cursed’, was released incomplete, then…
Fifteen years later, the late director's wife who was Dilip Kumar's sister, decided to release the unfinished film. Unfortunately, it failed to make an impact both critically and commercially.
Following the big success of Mughal-e-Azam (1960), director K. Asif aspired to bring one other legendary fancy legend to the big video show. He state his sights on the legendary story of Laila and Manju, casting Guru Dutt as Majnu and Nimmi as Laila for his dauntless project, which he titled fancy and God.
But, this dream romantic movie lingered in the mind of filmmaker for the next six years. In 1970, he approached Sanjeev Kumar for the character of Majnu. The Sholay actor became as soon as on board with it and production of the movie resumed that identical year. Tragically, K. Asif handed away in 1971, leaving the project unfinished.
Fifteen years later, K. Asif’s fourth wife Akhtar Begum who became as soon as Dilip Kumar’s sister, made up our minds to beginning the unfinished Devour and God. With the aid of producer, director and distributor KC Bokadia, they pieced collectively segments of the movie but unfortunately the lead actor Sanjeev Kumar handed away in 1985.
Devour and God (1986) – IMDb
Regarded as jinx by many, the movie became as soon as indirectly released on May 27, 1986, a year after Sanjeev Kumar’s passing. On the opposite hand, upon its beginning, Devour and God became as soon as an famous and industrial fret. Therefore in K. Asif ‘s prolific 26-year-occupation, he managed to order best two and a half of films that reached the big video show.
Whereas two of his films executed box state of job success at some point of his lifetime, he became as soon as unable to total his final project, which became as soon as indirectly released 15 years later after his passing. Incidentally, the three key figures of Devour and God- lead stars Guru Dutt (39) and Sanjeev Kumar (47), alongside with filmmaker K. Asif (Forty eight)- all handed away outdated to reaching the age of 50.
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