Rajnigandha
Rajnigandha is a 1974 Hindi film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The movie starred Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha and Dinesh Thakur in the lead. It went on to win the Best Picture, the Popular Award and the Critics Award at the Filmfare Awards in 1975.
About Rajnigandha in brief
Rajnigandha is a 1974 Hindi film directed by Basu Chatterjee. It is based on the short story by noted Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari. The movie starred Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha and Dinesh Thakur in the lead. It went on to win the Best Picture, the Popular Award and the Critics Award at the Filmfare Awards in 1975. The film was remade into Bengali in 2012 as Hothat Shedin. It was considered to have a realistic outlook of urban middle class on cinema in 1974, an era when potboilers were ruling Bollywood, a genre which was later called the Middle Cinema.
The original cast was Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore and Amitabh Bachchan. Then he switched to Bengali actors, Aparna Sen and Samit Bhanja. Even classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai was to be cast as lead, but her final MBA exams clashed.
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