Pardesi (1957 film)
1957 Indo-Russian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1957 Indo-Russian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pardesi (Hindi: Pardesi, lit. 'Foreigner'; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Хождение за три моря, romanized: Khozhdenie za tri morya, lit. 'Journey Beyond the Three Seas') is a 1957 film jointly directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin.[1][2] It was made in two versions, Hindi and Russian, and is based on the travelogues of Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin, called A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, which is now considered a Russian literary monument.
| Pardesi | |
|---|---|
Indian poster | |
| Directed by | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Vasili Pronin |
| Written by | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Mariya Smirnova |
| Produced by | Naya Sansar Mosfilm Studio |
| Starring | Oleg Strizhenov Nargis Padmini Prithviraj Kapoor Balraj Sahni |
| Cinematography | Ramchandra V. V. Nikolaev Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis |
| Music by | Anil Biswas
Boris Chaikovsky |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 min. |
| Countries | India Soviet Union |
| Languages | Hindi Russian |
Made during the high time of Indo-Russian amity, Pardesi is an Indo-Soviet co-production between the state-owned Mosfilm and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's Naya Sansar International production house.
The film has music by Anil Biswas, and had some memorable hits such as Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re, by Meena Kapoor, Na Dir Dim, by Lata Mangeshkar and was danced to by Padmini.[3] The film was in SovColor, though no colour print of the Hindi version is known to survive in India. Only a black and white copy of the Hindi film survives.
The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century Russian trader who travelled to India (1466–1472) and falls in love with an Indian girl, Champa (Nargis).
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