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Dharmatma Directed by Feroz Khan Produced by Feroz Khan Written by Kaushal Bharti Starring Feroz Khan
Hema Malini
PremnathMusic by Kalyanji Anandji Cinematography Kamal Bose Editing by B.S. Glaad Release date(s) 30 May 1975 Country India Afghanistan Language Hindi Dharmatama is a 1975 Hindi movie and the first ever Bollywood film to be shot in Afghanistan. It was produced and directed by Feroz Khan. The movie is the first attempt in India to localise The Godfather. This film's protagonist Premnath was based on the character of Matka king Ratan Khatri. It is said that Feroz Khan sat down with Ratan Khatri in order to learn more about the man and understand the nuances of matka (form of Indian gambling). The film cast includes: Feroz Khan, Rekha, Hema Malini, Premnath, Danny Denzongpa, Farida Jalal, Ranjeet, Helen, Madan Puri, Iftekhar and Dara Singh. The location in the movie is Band-e Amir, Afghanistan and the music is by Kalyanji Anandji.This film took Feroz Khan to new heights in his career as this was one of the block buster movies of all times. The same year, Sholay and Deewar were also released, both of which had great photography, especially Sholay's director of Photography Dwarka Dwivecha was to get the Filmfare Award for Sholay, but Dharmatma's Director of Photography Kamal Bose won the race for eye-pleasing locations as well as breath-taking action scenes and got this award.
In this movie, Producer-Director and Actor Feroz Khan showcased the female lead of the film in a glamorous look first time. It is being said that actress Hema Malini was so impressed with the Feroz Khan's method of filming the female lead and she always wanted to work with Feroz Khan.[citation needed] But Feroz Khan, like his all movies, never repeated her in his movie. All the songs of the movie including 'Tere Chahere Main Woh Jadu Hain' were huge hit. The film earned name and fame to Feroz Khan.
Cast
- Prem Nath ... Dharamdas 'Dharmatma'
- Feroz Khan ... Ranbir
- Hema Malini ... Reshma
- Rekha ... Anu
- Danny Denzongpa ... Jankura
- Farida Jalal ... Mona
- Ranjeet ... Rishi
- Sudhir ... Natwar
- Imtiaz Khan ... Kundan
- Madan Puri ... Ranbir's Uncle
- Jeevan ... Anokhelal
- Satyendra Kapoor ... Anokhelal's brother
- Helen ... Dancer
- Iftekhar ... Vikram Singh
- Faryal ... Medical sister
- Sulochana Latkar ... Shanti
- Seema Kapoor
- Jagdish Raj ... Dr. Jagdish
- Krishnakant
- Habib ... Baron
- Anand Pal
- Major Anand ... Police Commissioner
- Brahm Bhardwaj ... Dr. Roy
- V. Gopal
- Hercules
- Dhanraj
- Rafiq
- Zaheera
- Nadira ... Gipsy
- Alka ... Rani
- P. Jairaj
- Yashraj
- Nana Palsikar ... Purshottam
- Nasir Hussain ... Rani's dad
- Krishan Dhawan ... Kishanlal - Anu's dad
- Gurnam
- Mohan Choti
- Himmat Sinh Chauhan
- Dara Singh ... Shakti Singh
External links
- Dharmatma at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- 1975 films
- Hindi-language films
- Indian films
- 1970s Hindi-language film stubs
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