Parakh (1944)
A class division melodrama centred on Mehtab’s histrionics. Kiran (Mehtab) is the daughter of a courtesan. Her lowly origins first destroy her marriage and then threaten to jeopardise her son Prakash’s (Singh) ambitions. She is blackmailed for keeping her son’s parentage a secret from him, forcing her to return to her ancestral profession. The film was a commercial success.
- Date of release
- 1944-10-20
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sohrab Modi
Casting
- Mehtab — Kiran
- Balwant Singh — Prakash
- Kaushalya
- Shah Nawaz
- Yakub
Interesting facts
Parakh is a Bollywood social film. It was released in 1944.
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