Rattan (film)

Rattan or Ratan (Hindi: रतन) is a 1944 Indian Bollywood film starring Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Bano. It was a highly successful movie of 1944. The film is noted as the film which made Naushad one of the top contributors to music in Indian films and enabled him to demand a fee of Rs 25,000 a film.The heroine of the movie Swaran Lata had said in a live interview with the Pakistan Television years later that the tunes of the songs of Rattan were set by the lyricist D. N. Madhok himself.

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• Cast
• Music
• References

Abdul Rashid Kardar production spent 75,000 rupees in 1944 to make ‘Rattan’. The music by Naushad Ali was such a phenomenal hit that the company earned Rs 3 lacs as royalty from Gramophone sales in the first year.