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71 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
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Amanat
19550 HI
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10.0
MASTERPIECE
★10.0TMDB · 1
Synopsis
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A dying man entrusts his lives earnings to Purshotam, a stranger he just met, and asks him to promise to take this money to his wife, and son, Pradeep, in a remote village in India, to which Purshotam agrees. The man passes away, and Purshotam goes to fulfill his promise, in vain though, as he is unable to trace the woman and her son. After sometime he experiences financial difficluties, and decides to use the money for his personal gain. Years later he comes to know of the rightful heir to these monies, but will he able to assert his honesty, or will he carry on as though nothing has happened
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Chand Usmani
Achala Sachdev
Bharat Bhushan
Nazir Hussain
Pran
Asit Sen
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Arabind Sen
- Languages
- Hindi, Urdu
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The take
Arabind Sen directs. Dialogue in Hindi, Urdu.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 171 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Hindi, Urdu.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Chand Usmani and Achala Sachdev and Bharat Bhushan carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0047816 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- 0
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- HI
- Certification (US)
- U
- IMDB
- Amanat (1955)
Also by
Arabind Sen
Key crew
- ProducerBimal Roy
- MusicSalil Chowdhury
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1955-10-04U
Also known as
International titles
- AmanatIN
