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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Char Dil Char Rahen<br />
| image = Chaar Dil Chaar Raahein.jpg<br />
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| director = [[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas]]<br />
| producer = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas<br />
| writer = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas<ref>{{IMDb title|0139110|Char Dil Char Rahen}}</ref><br />[[Inder Raj Anand]]<br />V. P. Sathe<br />
| screenplay = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas<br />
| story = <br />
| based_on = ''Char Dil Char Rahen'' <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --><br />
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| starring = [[Raj Kapoor]] <br />[[Ajit Khan|Ajit]]<br/> [[Shammi Kapoor]]<br />[[Meena Kumari]]<br>[[Nimmi]]<br />
| music = [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]<br/>[[Sahir Ludhianvi]]<br />
| cinematography = [[S. Ramachandra]]<br />
| editing = <br />
| studio = Naya Sansar<br />
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| released = 1959<!-- {{Film date|df=yes|Year|Month|Day|Location}} --><br />
| runtime = 160 min.<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR}} 5.27 [[crore]] ({{Estimation}} {{INR}} 337.28 [[crore]] as of 2019)<br />
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'''Char Dil Char Rahen''' (English title: Four Hearts, Four Roads) is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1959|1959]] [[Hindi film]] directed by [[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas]], and starring two big stars of the era, real-life brothers [[Shammi Kapoor]] and [[Raj Kapoor]]. The movie is based on a novel of the same name.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Three young man Govinda ([[Raj Kapoor]]), Dilwar ([[Ajit Khan]]) and Jhonny ([[Shammi Kapoor]]) waiting at the crossroads for their lovers. Govinda was prevented from marrying Chavi ([[Meena Kumari]]) as she is untouchable and driven out from village. Govinda then waits for her at the crossroads. Dilwar rescues Pyari ([[Nimmi]]) from Nawab ([[Anwar Hussain (actor)]]) but she refuses to escape without her mother. She then sets up a shop and waits near crossroad for Dilawar. Jhonny in love with Stella ([[Kumkum (actress)]]) is framed by his boss Fereira ([[David Abraham (actor)|David Abraham]]) and jailed he later joins group of crossroads and starts a garage. Nirmal Kumar ([[Paidi Jairaj]]) the union leader then asks the trio to blast a hill at crossroad to build a road.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Raj Kapoor]] as Govinda<br />
* [[Ajit Khan|Ajit]] as Dilawar<br />
* [[Shammi Kapoor]] as Johny Braganza<br />
* [[Meena Kumari]] as Chavli<br />
* [[Kumkum (actress)|Kumkum]] as Stella D'Souza<br />
* [[Nimmi]] as Pyari<br />
* [[Anwar Hussain (actor)|Anwar Hussain]] as Nawab Saab<br />
* [[David Abraham (actor)|David Abraham]] as Ferreira<br />
* [[Nana Palsikar]] as Pujariji<br />
* [[Achala Sachdev]]<br />
* [[P. Jairaj]] as Nirmal Kumar<br />
* Rashid Khan<br />
* [[Kumari Naaz]] (as Baby Naaz)<br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
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==Box office==<br />
It was released simultaneously with other big films, Devendra Goel's ''[[Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan]]'' and [[V Shantaram]]'s ''[[Navrang]]'', while ''Navrang'' was a hit, ''Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan'' broke even and ''Char Dil Char Rahen'' failed at the Indian box office in 1959.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/Char-Dil-Char-Rahen-1959/article15937402.ece|title=Char Dil Char Rahen (1959)|date=6 March 2009|publisher=|accessdate=21 February 2018|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>[http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/ie/daily/19980529/14950594.html 1959: Year that was] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311043955/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/ie/daily/19980529/14950594.html |date=11 March 2014 }}</ref><br />
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However, it later went on to become an [[List of highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets|overseas blockbuster]] at the [[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales|Soviet box office]], where it drew 39.8 million viewers in 1962.<ref name="soviet">{{cite web|url=http://kinanet.livejournal.com/1469857.html|title=Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия)|author=[[Sergey Kudryavtsev (film critic)|Sergey Kudryavtsev]]}}</ref> In the [[Soviet Union]], the film grossed 9.95 million [[Soviet ruble|SUR]]{{#tag:ref|39.8 million tickets sold,<ref name="soviet"/> average ticket price of 25 [[Soviet ruble|kopecks]])<ref name="moscow7">[https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/podzim2015/FAV291/um/Roth-Ey-Moscow_Prime_Time.pdf#page=7 ''Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War'', page 48], [[Cornell University Press]], 2011</ref>|group=n}} ([[US$]]11.06 million,{{#tag:ref|0.9 [[Soviet ruble]]s per [[US dollar]] from 1961 to 1971<ref>Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls</ref>|group=n|name=RubleUSD6171}} [[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]5.27 [[crore]]),{{#tag:ref|4.7619 [[Indian rupee]]s per US dollar from 1950 to 1965<ref name="sauder">http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3</ref>|group=n|name=RupeeUSD}} equivalent to US${{Inflation|US|11.06|1962}} million ({{INR}}591 crore)<ref name="exchange16">{{cite web|url=https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|title=Yearly Average Rates - OFX|accessdate=21 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713183556/https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/|archive-date=13 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 2016. Its overseas Soviet gross exceeded the domestic Indian gross of all films released in 1959<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=165&catName=MTk1OQ==|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030043401/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=165&catName=MTk1OQ==|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 October 2013|title=Boxofficeindia.com|date=30 October 2013|accessdate=21 February 2018}}</ref> and 1962.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=168&catName=MTk2Mg==|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014080632/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=168&catName=MTk2Mg==|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 October 2013|title=Boxofficeindia.com|date=14 October 2013|accessdate=21 February 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Controversy==<br />
Shammi Kapoor received a legal notice from director Abbas when he refused to act for one of the songs in the film, and many other controversies with the stars of that era caused director Abbas to vow to stop making movies with mainstream movie stars.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0139110|Char Dil Char Rahen}}<br />
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{{K. A. Abbas}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1959 films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by K. A. Abbas]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Anil Biswas]]<br />
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas]]</div>2409:4060:397:FB9:4D5:AA00:1B5B:A872