Kath Putli (1957)
January 25, 1957Release Date
Plot.
In this Bollywood classic tearjerker, a romance for the ages blooms between the puppeteer Shivraj and the young admirer Pushpa after Shivraj loses the use of his hands and his livelihood. But love turns to resentment when Pushpa begins paying the bills with money made through her budding stage career. Will fierce pride keep them apart, or will Pushpa's faithful agent find a way to bring them together again?
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Cast & Crew.
Vyjayanthimala
Pushpa
Balraj Sahni
Loknath
Kumari Kamala
Kamala (as Kamala Laxman)
Jawahar Kaul
Shivraj
Nitin Bose
Director
C.S. Dubey
(as C. S. Dube)
Amiya Chakrabarty
Director
Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal
Composer
Details.
Wiki.
Kathputli (transl. Puppet) is a 1957 Pygmalion Black-and-white Hindi-language film produced by Ajit Chakraborty and Amiya Chakrabarty with their Sreerangam Productions. The film was the last film of director Amiya Chakrabarty, who had earlier directed Basant, Daag and Seema. He died during the filming and Nitin Bose took up the mantle of director in the film. The film stars Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni in the lead with Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Kumari Kamala, C. S. Dubey, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam and Laxman Rao, forming an ensemble cast. The film's music was composed by the Shankar Jaikishan duo, with the lyrics by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri.