कटी पतंग (1971)

Curiosidades

Kati Patang is a 1970 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Asha Parekh as a woman pretending to be a widow, and her ensuing trials and tribulations opposite her charming neighbour, played by Rajesh Khanna. It was the sixth highest grossing of the year and Parekh's performance as Madhavi was critically acclaimed and earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. The film also stars Nazir Hussain, Bindu, Prem Chopra, Daisy Irani and Sulochana Latkar.

Production

Kati Patang was adapted from a novel of the same name by Gulshan Nanda. The novel and the film's story, also written by Nanda, were based on the 1948 novel I Married a Dead Man, by Cornell Woolrich and had been previously made into the American film No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck.

Shakti Samanta has stated that he offered the film to Sharmila Tagore first but she was pregnant. It was then he signed Asha Parekh, he was "confident" that he could extract a "convincing performance from her." He had cast her in his earlier film, Pagla Kahin Ka (1970).

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