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Chhalia
Sign in to saveChhalia is a 1960 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Manmohan Desai. It stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Pran, Rehman and Shobhna Samarth. The story is loosely based on the 1848 short story "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but is focused on the issue of estranged wives and children in the aftermath of partition. Chhalia was shot in black-and-white. Music by Kalyanji-Anandji, played a part in the film's box office success.
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7.5The tragic-comic story of Chhalia, a naive, simple-minded young man who comes to the city and witnesses the harsh side of life; and falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to find out that she is married but separated from her husband, Kewal, and adopted son, Anwar. He puts all he can in an effort to locate Kewal and re-unite the family.
Cast
- Raj Kapoor as Chhalia
- Pran Sikand as Abdul Rehman
- Rehman as Kewal
- Shobhna Samarth
- Bupet Raja as Anwar
- Nutan as Shanti
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
236 votes
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Musical, Romance
- Awards
- 2 nominations
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- musical film
- Country of origin
- India
- Original language
- Hindi
- Main subject
- partition of India
- Director
- Manmohan Desai
- Screenwriter
- Inder Raj Anand
- Cast member
- Pran
- Composer
- Kalyanji–Anandji
- Performer
- Kalyanji–Anandji
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- publication date
- 1960-00-00
- title
- छलिया
- color
- black-and-white
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Soundtrack
- Release
- Awards and nominations
- References
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Chhalia is a 1960 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Manmohan Desai. It stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Pran, Rehman and Shobhna Samarth. The story is loosely based on the 1848 short story "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but is focused on the issue of estranged wives and children in the aftermath of partition. Chhalia was shot in black-and-white. Music by Kalyanji-Anandji, played a part in the film's box office success.
==Plot== Shanti is married off to Kewal on the eve of partition. But while the two families move away to Delhi from Lahore, she inadvertently is left behind, and is forced to share a roof with the Afghan bandit Abdul Rehman, who has a sister of Shanti's age in India. When she returns to India five years later with her son, she is first welcomed by her husband, Kewal, with open arms but disowned when the child identifies himself as Anwar, and his father as Abdul Rehman. Even her own father refuses to give her shelter, though in the years she had lived with Abdul Rehman she hadn't even seen his face.
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