Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971 film)

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For a 2007 Telugu film by the same name see Hare Rama Hare Krishna (2007 film)

Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman
Directed by	Dev Anand
Produced by	Dev Anand
Written by	Dev Anand
Starring	Dev Anand Zeenat Aman Mumtaz
Release date(s)	9 December 1971
Running time	149 min.
Language	Hindi
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Hare Rama Hare Krishna is a 1971 Indian film directed by Dev Anand starring himself and Zeenat Aman. The film was a big hit and a star-making vehicle for Zeenat Aman, who played a westernized hippie. The movie dealt with the decadence of the Hippie culture. It aimed to have an anti-drug message and also depicts some problems associated with Westernization such as divorce.

Asha Bhosle won Filmfare Award for the song Dum Maro Dum, which was a huge hit. The music of the film was composed by Rahul Dev Burman and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi.

The story for Hare Rama Hare Krishna actually came to Dev Anand's mind when he saw hippies and their fallen values in Kathmandu where he was on a visit after protests against his previous film Prem Pujari in Calcutta. He was low in spirits because his film had been opposed and some had burnt Prem Pujari's posters.^{[citation needed]}

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The film is about a Montréal-based Indian family, the Jaiswals. The brother Prashant (Dev Anand) and sister Jasbir (Zeenat) have a good relationship as children. However, the parents quarrel and separate leaving Prashant with the mother and Jasbir with the father. Jasbir is repeatedly told that her mother and brother are dead and she eventually believes that she will never see Prashant again.

She is ill-treated by her step mother and she runs away from home. Prashant grows up to be a pilot and he learns that Jasbir is in Kathmandu, Nepal with a group of hippies.

To reunite with his sister, Prashant travels to Kathmandu and meets Shanti (Mumtaz) who was to later marry him, and also Janice who in reality is his sister Jasbir with a new name and identity. She has forgotten her childhood and Prashant too. Prashant has to get his sister back amongst other events which include his being suspected as a thief in Kathmandu and fearing for his life.

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[edit] External link

Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971 film) at the Internet Movie Database

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