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Grahasti (1963)

Grahasti poster
Original title
ग्रहस्ती
Directed by
Kishore Sahu
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 34m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A respected industrialist with a large family is discovered to have two wives and two separate families living in different cities. The secret comes out during his daughter's engagement, and the story follows the scandal's impact on him and his loved ones.

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What happens

Grahasti (transl. Family Life) also called Grihasti, is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed by Kishore Sahu. Produced by S. S. Vasan for Gemini Studios, its music director was Ravi and the lyrics were written by Shakeel Badayuni. Pandit Mukhram Sharma wrote the dialogues with cinematography by P. Ellappa. The film starred Ashok Kumar, Mehmood , Manoj Kumar, Rajshree, Nirupa Roy, Indrani Mukherjee, Bipin Gupta, Lalita Pawar and Gajanan Jagirdar. Grahasti was the first film to "start the trend" of family dramas being made in South India. The story revolves around Harish Khanna (Ashok Kumar), a respected industrialist with a large brood of children, is discovered to be leading a dual life, having two sets of families in different cities at the occasion of his daughter’s engagement. The effect the scandal and the secret has on him and his family forms the basis of the story. It is inspired and an adaptation of a Hollywood film ‘’The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker’’ which in turn had been a successful broadway play based on a true incident of a bigamous trucker reported in The Reader’s Digest. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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