Mahal (1949 film)

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Mahal

Film poster
Directed by Kamal Amrohi
Produced by Ashok Kumar
Savak Vacha
Written by Kamal Amrohi
Starring Ashok Kumar
Madhubala
Kumar
Vijayalaxmi
Music by Khemchand Prakash
Cinematography Joseph Wirsching
Editing by Bimal Roy
M. Shanker
R. M. Tipnis
Release date(s) 1949
Running time 165 min.
Country India
Language Hindi / Urdu
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Mahal (Hindi: महल, Urdu: محل) is a 1949 Indian Hindi film directed by Kamal Amrohi and starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala.

Produced by the famous Bombay Talkies studio, it is also the movie which launched both playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and leading lady Madhubala into super-stardom. The songs, particularly "Aayega Aanewaala" (English: He will Come) sung by Lata Mangeshkar, are perennial favorites.

The movie was a groundbreaking horror film and supernatural suspense thriller and the earliest known film dealing with reincarnation. Mahal became one of the biggest box office hits of 1949 [1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mahal (1949) Classic Films at upperstall