Anuradha (1960 film)

Anuradha
Poster
Directed by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Screenplay by	Shachin Bhowmick Rajinder Singh Bedi D. N. Mukherjee Samir Chowdhary
Story by	Sachin Bhowmick
Produced by	Hrishikesh Mukherjee L. B. Thakur
Starring	Balraj Sahni Leela Naidu
Cinematography	Jaywant Pathare
Edited by	Das Dhaimade
Music by	Pandit Ravi Shankar (composer) Shailendra (lyricist)
Release date	1960 (1960)
Running time	141 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Anuradha (Hindi: अनुराधा; English: Love of Anuradha) is a 1960 Hindi-language Indian film produced and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film stars Balraj Sahni and Leela Naidu in lead roles along with Asit Sen and Mukri. The film is noted for being Miss India Naidu's debut film.

The film's music was composed by Pandit Ravi Shankar, in one of his rare forays into Hindi cinema.^[1] The film was based on a short story by Sachin Bhowmick, first published in the Bengali monthly magazine Desh, and according to his autobiography, Madame Bovary, the 1857 novel by Gustave Flaubert, inspired him to create this story.

The film went on to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival in 1961.

Trivia

This dialogue by Nasir Hussain, "beti gaana gaao, main tumhare pita samaan hun" was repeated again in the film Abhimaan. It may be noted that dialogue writer and director of both the films were same; Rajinder Singh Bedi and Hrishikesh Mukherjee respectively.