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{{Infobox film
| name = Dak Ghar
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| director = Zul Vellani
| producer = Children's Film Society
| writer =
| based_on = ''[[The Post Office (play)|The Post Office]]'' by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Balraj Sahni]]|[[Mukri]]|[[Sachin (actor)|Sachin]]}}
| music = [[Madan Mohan]] (composer)<br/> [[Kaifi Azmi]] (lyricist)
| cinematography =
| editing =
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| released = 1965
| runtime = 60 min
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget =
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'''''Dak Ghar''''' [[Bollywood films of 1965|1965]] [[Bollywood]] fim based on [[The Post Office (play)|an eponymous 1912 play]] by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2959058/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|title=Dak Ghar|publisher=IMDB|access-date=1 August 2015}}</ref> It was directed by Zul Vellani and starred [[Sachin (actor)|Sachin]], [[Mukri]], [[AK Hangal]], Sudha and [[Satyen Kappu]] among others, with [[Cameo appearance|cameo appearances]] by [[Balraj Sahni]] and [[Sharmila Tagore]].<ref name=memsaab>{{cite web|url=http://memsaabstory.com/2012/08/12/dak-ghar-1966/#more-19504|title=Dak Ghar (1966)|publisher=Memsaab Story|access-date=1 August 2015}}</ref>

==Background==
''[[The Post Office (play)|Dak Ghar (The Post Office)]]'' is a 1912 [[Bengali language|Bengali]] play by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. [[W.B. Yeats]] produced an English-language version of the play and also wrote a preface to it.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Prefaces and introductions: uncollected prefaces and introductions by Yeats to works by other authors and to anthologies edited by Yeats |last=Yeats |first=William Butler |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1989 |page=311 |isbn=9781439106235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OnajqAlyRd0C&pg=PT311}}</ref> It was also translated into Spanish and French. It was performed in English for the first time in 1913 by the Irish Theatre in London with Tagore himself in the attendance. The Bengali original was staged in [[Calcutta]] in 1917. It also had a successful run in [[Germany]] with performances in concentration camps during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tagore for today|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article3839822.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204225151/http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article3839822.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=30 August 2012}}</ref> A Polish version was performed under the supervision of [[Janusz Korczak]] in the [[Warsaw ghetto]].<ref name="robinson">{{Cite book |title=Rabindranath Tagore: an anthology |editor1-last=Dutta |editor1-first=Krishna |editor2-last=Robinson |editor2-first=Andrew |editor2-link=W. Andrew Robinson |pages=21–50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx9RB5H6yc8C&pg=PA21 |year=1998 |publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312200794 }}</ref>

==Plot==
Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor's orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new Post Office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fantasising about visiting the King beyond the hills, and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house.<ref name=memsaab/>

==Cast==
*[[Sachin (actor)|Sachin Pilgaonkar]] as Amal
*[[AK Hangal]] as Pandit-doctor
*[[Satyen Kappu]] as Madhabdutta, Amal's uncle (Pishemoshai in original play)
*[[Sudha]] as flower seller girl
*[[Balraj Sahni]] as Andhe Baba/Fakir (Thakurdas in original play)
*[[Mukri]] as Dahiwala (Doiwala in original play)

==Soundtrack==
* "Jhan Jhan Baaje Iktaara, Raja Ka Mai Harakaara"... [[Sushma Shrestha]]
* "Kheli Hu Bahaaron Me, Bahaaron Me, Bahaaron Me Pali Hu Hu"...
* "Kyu Roj Akela Jaata Hai Ae Suraj Le Chal Saath Mujhe"... [[Bhupinder Singh (musician)|Bhupinder]]
* "Taaza Dahi Le Lo Taaza Dahi, Taaza Dahi Le Lo"... Shyam Vasvani
* "Ye Bhor Jahaan Se Aati Hai, Koi Mujhko Wahan Pahuncha Deta"... Bhupinder

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=2959058}}

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[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1965 films]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Rabindranath Tagore]]
[[Category:Indian films based on plays]]
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