Taqdeer

Taqdeer (1943)

तकदीर

In between his more ambitious Najma (1943) and Humayun (1945), Mehboob made this lightweight comedy about Justice Gangaprasad (Chandramohan) and theatre-owner Seth Badriprasad (Charlie) who lose their daughter and son respectively in the Kumbh Mela.

Date of release
1943-01-02
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Mehboob Khan

Casting

Interesting facts

Taqdeer is a 1943 Indian Hindi language comedy film. It was directed by Mehboob Khan under his Mehboob Productions banner. The star cast included a young Nargis in her first lead role along with Motilal, Chandra Mohan, Charlie, Jilloobai and Kayam Ali.

Trivia

This was Nargis Dutt's debut film as a heroine. She was about 14 years old to Motilal's 33 years when she agreed to act in this film. She had earlier acted as a child artist in her mother's (Jaddan Bai) films by the name of Baby Rani. Nargis's real name was Fatima, but Mehboob Khan didn't think it suited her, and so for the film changed it to Nargis. She got good reviews for the film with Filmindia calling it "a brilliant screen debut".

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