Anand (1971 film)

Anand
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHrishikesh Mukherjee
Written byBimal Dutta
Gulzar
D.N. Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Biren Tripathy
Produced byHrishikesh Mukherjee
N. C. Sippy
StarringRajesh Khanna
Amitabh Bachchan
Sumita Sanyal
Ramesh Deo
Saurabh Singh(Vicumbe)
CinematographyJaywant Pathare
Edited byHrishikesh Mukherjee
Music bySalil Chowdhury
Distributed byDigital Entertainment
Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd.
Release date
  • 12 March 1971 (1971-03-12)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[1]
Box office₹1.7 crore (equivalent to ₹81 crore or US$9.7 million in 2023)[2]

Anand (transl. Joy)[a] is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language drama film co-written and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, with dialogues written by Gulzar. It stars Rajesh Khanna in the lead role, with a supporting cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal, Ramesh Deo and Seema Deo.

The film won several awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Film in 1972. In 2013, it was listed in Anupama Chopra's book 100 Films To See before You Die.[3] Anand is counted among the 17 consecutive box office successes of Rajesh Khanna between 1969 and 1971, adding the multistarrers Maryada (1971) and Andaz (1971). The film was a modest success at box office.[4] It has since gained a cult following , being hailed as one of the greatest Hindi films ever made. Indiatimes listed it among the "25 must watch films Bollywood movies".[5] Anand is one of the only two films that Khanna and Bachchan have starred together– the other being the 1973 film Namak Haraam, which was also directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ Aḵẖtar, Jāvīd; Kabir, Nasreen Munni (2002). Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar. Oxford University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-19-566462-1. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2019. most of the writers working in this so-called Hindi cinema write in Urdu: Gulzar, or Rajinder Singh Bedi or Inder Raj Anand or Rahi Masoom Raza or Vahajat Mirza, who wrote dialogue for films like Mughal-e-Azam and Gunga Jumna and Mother India. So most dialogue-writers and most song-writers are from the Urdu discipline
  2. ^ "Anand (1971) - Lifetime Box Office Collection, Budget & Reviews". 25 January 2018. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  3. ^ Mazumdar, Arunima (16 October 2013). "Anupama Chopra's 100 favourite films!". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  4. ^ "BoxOffice India.com". 2 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Eight lesser known facts about Rajesh Khanna on his death anniversary". Hindustan Times. 18 July 2015. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Revisiting Prakash Mehra's Zanjeer: The film that made Amitabh Bachchan". The Indian Express. 20 June 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  7. ^ Raghavendra, M. K. (2014). Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199456307.
  8. ^ "It was Kishore, not Rajesh Khanna, who was to do the role of Anand". INDIA TV NEWS. 19 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2018.


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