Padosan

Padosan (1968)

A simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor. He enlists the help of his musical-theater friends to woo the lovely girl-next-door away from her music teacher.

Date of release
1968-11-29
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (37)
Runtime
2h 37m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Director
Jyoti Swaroop

Casting

Interesting facts

Padosan is a 1968 Indian Hindi-language musical comedy film directed by Jyoti Swaroop and produced by Mehmood, N. C. Sippy and written by Rajendra Krishan. It is a remake of the Bengali film Pasher Bari (1952) based on a short story of the same name by Arun Chowdhury, starring Bhanu Bandyopadhyay and Sabitri Chatterjee. The short story it was is considered to be an adaptation of the French play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by Edmond Rostand. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Saira Banu, Mehmood and Kishore Kumar. Mukri, Raj Kishore and Keshto Mukherjee played the supporting roles.

Production

Mehmood and R.D. Burman were very close and had a good relationship since their first collaboration in the movie Chhote Nawab (1961). Four years later, Mehmood made the film Bhoot Bungla (1965) and hired R.D. Burman as a music director and gave R.D. Burman a role to act in the movie. Therefore, Mehmmod being the producer of Padosan, the role of Bhola was first offered to R.D. Burman.

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