Raja Jani (1972)

Original title

राजा जानी

Directed by

Mohan Segal

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 35m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman's identity is mistaken for a long-lost royal heiress. A man falls in love with her and tries to protect her from those who want to exploit the situation.

romanticmusicaldramaticemotionalclassicheartfeltold-fashioned

What happens

Raja Jani (transl. Raja and His Sweetheart) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language film, produced by Madan Mohla, directed by Mohan Segal, and written by S. Ali Raza. The film stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Premnath, Prem Chopra, Johnny Walker, Durga Khote, Sajjan, Helen and Bindu. The music is by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. Raja Jani was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year. It is a remake of the 1965 Bengali film Rajkanya, which itself is loosely based on the 1956 American film Anastasia. It was itself remade in Tamil in 1983 as Adutha Varisu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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