Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Shri 420 (1955)

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Jan 26, 2012, 7:10:39 AM (13 years ago)

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Shri 420 (1955)

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+== Shri 420 ==
+aka Mr 420
+
+1955 177’ b&w Hindi
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+d/p [[Raj Kapoor]]
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+pc [[R.K. Films]]
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+st/co-sc K.A. Abbas co-sc V.P. Sathelyr Shailendra, Hasrat Jaipuri c Radhu Karmakar m Shankar-Jaikishen
+
+lp Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Nadira, Nemo, Lalita Pawar, M. Kumar, Hari Shivdasani,
+Nana Palsikar, Bhudo Advani, Iftikhar, Sheila Vaz,
+Ramesh Sinha, Rashid Khan, Pesi Patel
+
+Having played a tramp in [[Awara]] (1951),
+Kapoor elaborates his vagabond image further
+with this sentimental story about Raju (Kapoor),
+a country boy carrying the archetypal bundle on
+the end of a stick over his shoulder, who tries to
+make his fortune in Bombay. The city is
+presented in terms of Abbas’s familiar
+stereotypical contrast between the corruption of
+the urban rich and the warm-hearted poor (e.g.
+Pawar as the fruit-seller). Raju falls in love with
+Vidya (Nargis), a poor schoolteacher who has a
+paralysed father. Maya (Nadira) is the femme
+fatale who embroils Raju in a decadent life. Raju
+is seen gambling, playing the trumpet in a club,
+surrounded by dancing-girls (the number
+Mudmud ke na dekh), and he becomes a
+conman in the employ of Maya’s friend Seth
+Dharmanand, a ruthless capitalist.
+When he is used to swindle the homeless, Raju
+rebels and a lively chase involving a bag of
+money provides the bridge to the happy ending.
+Opening with the Chaplin number Mera Joota
+hai japani (sung by Mukesh), the film includes
+some of the star’s most famous star songs: the
+carnivalesque Dil ka haal sune dilwala (sung by
+Manna Dey) and the best-known Kapoor-Nargis
+duet, performed in the rain as they fall in love,
+Pyar hua ikraar hua (sung by Manna Dey and
+Lata Mangeshkar).
+
 
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