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Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955)

Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje poster
Directed by
V. Shantaram
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 23m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A dancer in a village family stands up to her father's ban on performing. She leaves home to train with a master and falls in love with another dancer.

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What happens

Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (transl. The anklets go jhanak jhanak) is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language dance film directed by V. Shantaram. It stars Shantaram's wife Sandhya and dancer Gopi Krishna in lead roles. One of the earlier Technicolor films made in India, the film won the All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film, the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, and the Filmfare Best Movie Award. The film was declared a "Super Hit" by Box office India. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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