Kismet (1943)
India's first Blockbuster
A former theater owner and his crippled daughter live in poverty until a chance encounter with a young pickpocket brings romance for the petty criminal and daughter as well as a chance by the father to get back at the villainous new theater owner who ousted him from the business years before.
- Date of release
- 1943-02-01
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Gyan Mukherjee
Casting
- Ashok Kumar — Shekhar / Madan
- Shah Nawaz — Inspector
- Mumtaz Shanti — Rani
- V.H. Desai — Banke
- David Abraham Cheulkar — Fence / Pawn-shop owner
- Chandraprabha — Leela
- Mehmood — Young Shekhar
- Kanu Roy — Mohan
- Haroon — Indrajeet's Manager
- P.F. Pithawala
- Kumari Kamala — Young Rani
- Mubarak — Indrajit Babu
Interesting facts
Kismet (transl. Fate) is a 1943 Indian drama film directed by Gyan Mukherjee and co-written with Agha Jani Kashmiri. The film stars Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Shanti, and Shah Nawaz. The film introduced several taboo themes to Indian cinema for the first time, including the depiction of an anti-hero and an unwed pregnant woman.
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