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Chitralekha (1964 film)

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Director
  
Kidar Sharma

Story by
  
Bhagwati Charan Verma

Country
  
India

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Music director
  
Sahir Ludhianvi, Roshan

Language
  
Hindi

Chitralekha (1964 film) movie poster
Release date
  
1964

Based on
  
Chitralekha   by Bhagwati Charan Verma

Writer
  
Kidar Nath Sharma (dialogue), Rajinder Kumar Sharma (screenplay)

Screenplay
  
Kidar Sharma, Rajinder Kumar Sharma

Cast
  
Meena Kumari
(Chitralekha),
Ashok Kumar
(Yogi Kumargiri),
Pradeep Kumar
(Aryaputra Samant Bijgupt),
Mehmood Ali
(Brahmachari Shwetant),
Meenu Mumtaz
(Maid)

Similar movies
  
Related Kidar Sharma movies

Chitralekha is a 1964 historical-philosophical Hindi film, directed by Kidar Sharma, starring Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari and Pradeep Kumar. It was based on 1934 Hindi novel by the same name by Bhagwati Charan Verma about Bijgupta serving under the Maurya Empire and the king Chandragupta Maurya (340 BCE – 298 BCE) and his love for courtesan Chitralekha. Films music and lyrics were by Roshan and Sahir Ludhianvi and noted for his songs like, "Sansaar Se Bhaage Phirte Ho" and "Man Re Tu Kaahe".

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It was remake of Chitralekha (1941) also directed by Kidar Sharma, which was the second grossing Indian film of 1941. Though unlike its previous version, this one didnt do well at the box office, critics have suggested bad script and incorrect casting as reasons.

Cast

  • Ashok Kumar as Yogi Kumargiri
  • Meena Kumari as Chitralekha
  • Pradeep Kumar as Aryaputra Samant Bijgupt
  • Mehmood as Brahmachari Shwetant
  • Minoo Mumtaz as Maid
  • Zeb Rehman as Samrat Chandragupta
  • Achala Sachdev as Gayatri Devi
  • Bela Bose as Devi Mahamaya
  • Shobhana as Yashodhara
  • Soundtrack

    Film has music by Roshan and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi.

    Tracklist

    References

    Chitralekha (1964 film) Wikipedia
    Chitralekha (1964 film) IMDb