| Kati Patang | |
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Kati Patang theatrical poster |
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| Directed by | Shakti Samanta |
| Produced by | Shakti Samanta |
| Written by | Vrajendra Gaur Gulshan Nanda |
| Starring | Rajesh Khanna Asha Parekh Prem Chopra Bindu |
| Music by | Rahul Dev Burman |
| Cinematography | V. Gopi Krishna |
| Editing by | Govind Dalwadi |
| Studio | Naini Lake Nainital Club Natraj Studios Ranikhet |
| Distributed by | Shakti Films United Producers Asian Television Network |
| Release date(s) | 1970 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | 3,80,00,000[1] |
Kati Patang is a 1970 Indian Hindi movie produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. It became a box office success.[1] It stars Asha Parekh as a woman pretending to be a widow, and her ensuing trials and tribulations. The film is based on a 1948 published story by Cornell Woolrich titled I Married a Dead Man, that had been filmed before as No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck. It would be remade in French as J'ai épousé une ombre (I Married a Shadow) (1983), and by Hollywood again as Mrs. Winterbourne (1996).[2]
The movie also stars Nasir Hussain, Bindu, Prem Chopra and Rajesh Khanna. The film was the second in a string of nine movies in which Samanta and Khanna collaborated.
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Madhvi (Asha Parekh) is an orphan living with her maternal uncle, who arranges her marriage with someone she does not know, so she runs away to her lover, Kailash (Prem Chopra), only to find him in the arms of another woman, Shabnam (Bindu). She returns to her maternal uncle, only to find him dead. She then runs away from there, and meets with a friend, a widow and her child at a railway station. The three travel together by train to meet Poonam's in-laws, who have never seen her. Unfortunately, the train meets with an accident, killing the widow, who leaves the child in Madhvi's care. Madhvi assumes the identity of the dead woman, Poonam, and travels along with the child to her in-laws. She is welcomed with open arms. She finds out that her uncle had arranged her marriage with Kamal Sinha (Rajesh Khanna). Kamal is angry and bitter at the manner his to-be wife treated him, even without knowing him. Kamal is attracted to Poonam, but she tries to distance herself, fearing that he will find out the truth about her. Then Shabnam and Kailash re-enter her life, making her look like an imposter, turning her in-laws against her, and turning Kamal's love into resentment.
Shakti Samanta has said that he cast Asha Parekh, because he was "confident" that he could extract a "convincing performance from her." He had cast her in his earlier film, the underrated Pagla Kahin Ka.[3] She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award, the only win for the film.
The Soundtrack of Kati Patang was composed by Rahul Dev Burman and the lyrics were penned by Anand Bakshi. The music was a trendsetter as it had the first hindi rap number "Mera naam hai shabnam". The other compositions were also brilliant. In the number "Pyaar dewana hota hai" one can find similarity with the S.D Burman track " Kwab ho tum ya koi hakikat" from the movie Jewel Thief.
| Song | Singer |
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| "Mera Naam Hai Shabnam" | Asha Bhosle |
| "Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai" | Kishore Kumar |
| "Yeh Shaam Mastani" | Kishore Kumar |
| "Jis Gali Mein Tera Ghar Na Ho Baalma" | Mukesh |
| "Pyaar Deewana Hota Hai, Mastaana Hota Hai" | Kishore Kumar |
| "Na Koi Umang Hai Na Koi Tarang Hai" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Aaj Na Chorenge Bas Humjoli" | Kishore Kumar |
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