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| Directed by | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
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| Written by | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas[1] Inder Raj Anand V. P. Sathe |
| Produced by | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
| Starring | Raj Kapoor Ajit Shammi Kapoor Meena Kumari Nimmi |
| Cinematography | S. Ramachandra
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| Music by | Anil Biswas Sahir Ludhianvi
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi
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Char Dil Char Rahen (English title: Four Hearts, Four Roads) is a 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.
Plot
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) 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.
Cast
- Raj Kapoor as Govinda
- Ajit as Dilawar
- Shammi Kapoor as Johny Braganza
- Meena Kumari as Chavli
- Kumkum as Stella D'Souza
- Nimmi as Pyari
- Anwar Hussain as Nawab Saab
- David Abraham as Ferreira
- Nana Palsikar as Pujariji
- Achala Sachdev
- P. Jairaj as Nirmal Kumar
- Rashid Khan
- Kumari Naaz (as Baby Naaz)
Soundtrack
Box office
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.[2][3]
However, it later went on to become an overseas blockbuster at the Soviet box office, where it drew 39.8 million viewers in 1962.[4] In the Soviet Union, the film grossed 9.95 million SUR[n 1] (US$11.06 million,[n 2] [[Indian rupee|Template:INR]]5.27 crore),[n 3] equivalent to US$Template:Inflation million (Template:INR591 crore)[8] in 2016. Its overseas Soviet gross exceeded the domestic Indian gross of all films released in 1959[9] and 1962.[10]
Controversy
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.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Template:IMDb title
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Char Dil Char Rahen (1959)(6 March 2009).
- ↑ 1959: Year that was Template:Webarchive
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия).
- ↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
- ↑ Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
- ↑ http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3
- ↑ Yearly Average Rates - OFX.
- ↑ Boxofficeindia.com(30 October 2013).
- ↑ Boxofficeindia.com(14 October 2013).
References
External links
Template:K. A. Abbas
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