Jagachya Pathivar

1960 147’ b&w Marathi d/st Raja Paranjpe pc Shripad Chitra sc/lyr G.D. Madgulkar c Bal Bapat m Sudhir Phadke lp Raja Paranjpe, Seema, G.D. Madgulkar, Dhumal, Mai Bhide, Vinay Kale, Raja Gosavi, Ramesh Deo, Sharad Talwalkar, Rajdutt

Melodrama evoking Chaplin’s City Lights (1931). Poor hero, in search of employment, meets blind heroine who sings and dances in the street for a living. He looks after her until her millionaire father rediscovers her. There are some classic hit songs by Phadke, e.g. Jag he bandishala and Nahi kharchali kavadi damadi.

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