Shagird
8.6 /10 1 Votes
100% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance Language Hindi | 7.1/10 Director Samir Ganguly Running time 2h 32m Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Gulzar , Subodh Mukherjee Release date 1967 (1967) Songs Bade Miya Diwane Cast Saira Banu (Poonam), Joy Mukherjee (Ramesh), I S Johar (Prof Brij Mohan Agnihotri), Madan Puri (Madan Chicagowala), Asit Sen (Narayan) |
Shagird (Hindi: शागिर्द; English: Disciple) is a 1967 Indian Bollywood comedy film directed by Samir Gunguly. The film stars Joy Mukherjee and Saira Banu in lead roles.
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Plot

Professor Brij Mohan Agnihotri (I. S. Johar) is a confirmed bachelor, and he firmly refuses to get married. He has a student named Ramesh (Joy Mukherjee), who considers him his mentor. On a visit to his friend out of town, Brij meets his friend's beautiful daughter, Punam (Saira Banu), and falls in love with her. Throwing all caution to the winds, he changes his appearance, and attempts to conquer Punam, but he later finds that Punam is attracted to his student, Ramesh. Now the professor has to decide whether to get rid of Ramesh, or to reverse their roles and make him his mentor.
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Music
The soundtrack of the film contains 6 songs. The music is composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, with lyrics authored by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
All lyrics written by Majrooh Sultanpuri; all music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
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