Kala Pani (1958)
Based on A.J.Cronin's 'Beyond This Place', this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. A young man, learning about his father's wrongful implication in a fifteen-year-old murder, vows to bring the true criminals to justice and release his innocent father from 'kaala paani' (life imprisonment), for which he enlists the help of a press reporter, a retired police inspector and an unwitting prostitute who happens to possess some key evidence.
- Date of release
- 1958-02-23
- TMDB
- 4.9 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 2h 44m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Raj Khosla
Casting
- Dev Anand — Karan Mehra
- Madhubala — Asha
- Nalini Jaywant — Kishori
- Agha — Badru
- Nazir Hussain — Inspector Mehta
- Kishore Sahu — Rai Bahadur Jaswant Rai
- D.K. Sapru — Diwan Sardalilal
- Mukri — Madhosh Miyan
- Mumtaz Begum — Mrs. Mehta
- M.A. Latif — Shankarlal Mehta
- Krishan Dhawan — Jumman
- Jankidas Mehra — Daulatchand
Interesting facts
Kala Pani is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film produced by Dev Anand for Navketan Films and directed by Raj Khosla. It is a remake of the 1955 Bengali film Sabar Uparey starring Uttam Kumar and Chabi Biswas which itself was based on A.J. Cronin's 1953 novel Beyond This Place.
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