Pardesi (1957 film)

Pardesi (1957 film)

Infobox Film
name = Pardesi


caption =
director = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Vasili Pronin
producer = Naya Sansar
Mosfilm Studio
writer = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Mariya Smirnova
starring = Oleg Strizhenov
Nargis Dutt
music = Anil Biswas
Boris Chaikovsky
Lyrics:
Ali Sardar Jafri
Prem Dhawan
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =
released = 1957
runtime = 110 min.
country = IND
language = Hindi/ Russian
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id= 1:172493
imdb_id = 0050820

Pardesi (English:The Journey Beyond Three Seas; Russian: "Khozhdenie za tri morya" ) was 1957 Indo-Russian film, jointly directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=KP0vAAAAMAAJ&dq=Pardesi+(1957+film)&q=Pardesi+&pgis=1 Pardesi fourth Ind-Soviet co-production] "The Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema", by Hameeduddin Mahmood, Affiliated East-West Press, 1974. page 17, 84.] . It was made in two version, Hindi and Russian, and was based on the travelgoues of Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin, called A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, which is now considered a Russian literary monument.

Made during the high time of Indo-Russian amity, Pardesi, was an Indo-Soviet film co-production, between state-owned, 'Mosfilm Studio' and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's, 'Naya Sansar International' production house.

Film had music by Anil Biswas, who have some memorable hits like, "Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re" by Meena Kapoor, "Na Dir Dim" by Lata Mangeshkar. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-izZCJ_fA "Na dir dim"] ]

ynopsis

The film tells the story of "Afanasy Nikitin" (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl "Champa" (Nargis Dutt).

Cast

* Oleg Strizhenov - "Afanasi"
* Nargis Dutt - "Champa"
* Prithviraj Kapoor
* Balraj Sahni
* Bharat Bhushan
* David [ [http://www.searchamovie.com/fp/PARDESI(1957).htm Pardesi (1957 film)] www.searchamovie.com.]
* P. Jairaj
* Achala Sachdev
* Padmini
* Iya Arepina
* Vitali Belyakov
* Stepan Kayukov

Awards

* 1958 Cannes Film Festival - Golden Palm - Nomination
* 1958 Filmfare Best Art Direction Award - M.R. Acharekar [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050820/awards -Awards] "Internet Movie Database".]

References

External links

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* [http://www.lovefilm.com/product/80813-Pardesi.html Pardesi remembered 50 years on]
* [http://www.aksharamala.com/hindi/isb/search/?f=Pardesi Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re (Meena Kapoor)-Pardesi Song]


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