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News Topical, Digital Desk : In the corridors of Bollywood, stories of old Hindi films are heard a lot. Veteran producers had to work very hard to establish popular production houses in the film industry and even at that time, films flopping was a common thing, but it affected the financial condition of the makers more than today. Today we are talking about the film Dharmaputra, which was directed by a famous director. Let us know which singer was cast in the film.
Dharmaputra was based on the novel
The film Dharmaputra was released in the year 1961. Yash Chopra was responsible for directing it. In those days, films were based on novels because the writers of the film were fond of reading novels and interesting stories. However, even today films are based on old English and Hindi novels. Regarding Dharmaputra, let us tell you that it was based on the story of Acharya Chatursen's novel of the same name.
Regarding Dharmputra, let us tell you that this was Yash Chopra's second film as a director. Before this, he had entered the world of direction with Dhool Ka Phool in the year 1959. Dharmputra was the first popular film of Hindi cinema, which raised the important issue of partition of India and Hindu fundamentalism.
Who created the Epistle?
Regarding the production of the film, let us tell you that this movie was produced by Yash Chopra's elder brother BR Chopra. The film was produced by Yash's elder brother BR Chopra. He founded BR Films in Mumbai in 1956. Dharmaputra was Shashi's first film as an adult actor. In which he played an important role of a Hindu fundamentalist. Rajendra Kumar also made a special appearance in a song, along with Shashikala also appeared.
5 thousand rupees were demanded back from Shashi Kapoor
During the shooting of the film, Shashi Kapoor also met Ismail Merchant. Actually, he had approached the actor with the script of the film 'Devgarh', but the work on the movie never started. Well, the result was that the relationship between Ismail and Shashi became stronger and both of them became friends. Before the release of the film Dharmputra, AVM Productions had signed Shashi Kapoor to work in 'Manmuji' and gave him 5000 as signing amount, but when Dharmputra flopped, the actor lost this film as well and the production house asked him for his money back. The special thing is that in his place, famous singer Kishore Kumar was signed.
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