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Munimji (1955)

Munimji poster
Directed by
Subodh Mukherjee
Genre
comedy, romance, music
Country
India
Runtime
2h 43m
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A clerk gets involved in a romantic adventure that brings him into conflict with a villain. The story mixes humor and drama as the main character navigates relationships and dangers.

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What happens

Munimji (transl. Clerk) is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film starring Dev Anand and Nalini Jaywant, and directed by Subodh Mukherjee. The story idea was by Ranjan, the screenplay was by Nasir Hussain, and dialogues by Nasir Hussain and Qamar Jalalabadi. Pran played the villain in the film. It also starred Ameeta and Nirupa Roy. The team of Mukherjee, Nasir Hussain, Dev Anand and music director S.D. Burman later got together to produce another movie, Paying Guest, in 1957. The film was loosely adapted in Telugu as Inti Guttu (1958). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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