Kundan (1955)
January 1, 1955Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Sohrab Modi
Kundan / Director / Producer
Nimmi
Radha/Uma
Sunil Dutt
Amrit
Ulhas
Sher Singh
Pran Sikand
Gopal
Murad
Gurudev
Om Prakash
Uma's foster father
Manorama
Kumkum
Tun Tun
Moolchand
Ghulam Mohammed
Original Music Composer
Shakeel Badayuni
Lyricist
Mohammed Rafi
Playback Singer
Lata Mangeshkar
Playback Singer
Manna Dey
Playback Singer
Geeta Dutt
Playback Singer
S. D. Batish
Playback Singer
Mubarak Begum
Playback Singer
Sudha Malhotra
Playback Singer
Pandit Sudarshan
Screenplay / Dialogue
Munshi Abdul Baqui
Dialogue
M.N. Malhotra
Cinematography
P. Bhalchandra
Editor
Media.
Details.
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Kundan is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language social drama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for Minerva Movietone. The film stars Sohrab Modi, Sunil Dutt, Nimmi, Pran, Om Prakash, Kumkum, Naaz, Murad, Ulhas,Manorama. The Screenplay was by Pandit Sudarshan, with dialogues by Munshi Abdul Baqui and Pandit Sudarshan. The music was composed by Ghulam Mohammed, with lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni. Nimmi's double role in the film as mother and daughter was acclaimed critically, while Ulhas won a nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor category.
Based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, Les Misérables, the film had Modi playing a poverty-stricken young man who gets into trouble with the police for stealing a loaf of bread. Over the years, he avoids a policeman who is on his trail even as he tries to live an honest life.