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1965 Indian film
Dak Ghar
1965
Bollywood
film based on
an eponymous 1912 play
by
Rabindranath Tagore
.
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It was directed by Zul Vellani and starred
Sachin
,
Mukri
,
AK Hangal
, Sudha and
Satyen Kappu
among others, with
cameo appearances
by
Balraj Sahni
and
Sharmila Tagore
.
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Background
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Dak Ghar (The Post Office)
is a 1912
Bengali
play by
Rabindranath Tagore
.
W. B. Yeats
produced an English-language version of the play and also wrote a preface to it.
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It was also translated into Spanish and French. It was performed in English for the first time in 1913 by the Irish Theatre in London with Tagore himself in attendance. The Bengali original was staged in
Calcutta
in 1917. It also had a successful run in
Germany
with performances in concentration camps during
World War II
.
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A Polish version was performed under the supervision of
Janusz Korczak
in the
Warsaw ghetto
.
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Plot
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Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor's orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new Post Office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fantasising about visiting the King beyond the hills, and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house.
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Cast
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Soundtrack
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- "Jhan Jhan Baaje Iktaara, Raja Ka Mai Harakaara"...
Sushma Shrestha
- "Kheli Hu Bahaaron Me, Bahaaron Me, Bahaaron Me Pali Hu Hu"...
- "Kyu Roj Akela Jaata Hai Ae Suraj Le Chal Saath Mujhe"...
Bhupinder
- "Taaza Dahi Le Lo Taaza Dahi, Taaza Dahi Le Lo"... Shyam Vasvani
- "Ye Bhor Jahaan Se Aati Hai, Koi Mujhko Wahan Pahuncha Deta"... Bhupinder
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