Fakira

Fakira
Poster
Directed byC.P. Dixit
Written byS. M. Abbas
R.K. Bannerjee
Dhruva Chatterjee
Produced byN.N. Sippy
StarringShashi Kapoor
Shabana Azmi
Asrani
Aruna Irani
Danny Dengzongpa
Iftekhar
CinematographyFali Mistry
Edited byWaman B. Bhosle
Gurudutt Shirali
Music byRavindra Jain
Release date
  • 6 September 1976 (1976-09-06)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹5 crore[1]

Fakira is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language crime action film produced by N.N. Sippy and directed by C.P. Dixit. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Asit Sen, Ramesh Deo and Madan Puri. The music is by Ravindra Jain. The film became a box office hit and emerged as the 6th highest grossing film of the year.[2][3] The film's team of producer (N.N. Sippy), cast (Shashi Kapoor, Asrani, Danny Denzongpa, Madan Puri) and music composer (Ravindra Jain) had teamed together before for the box office hit Chor Machaye Shor (1974). Fakira was later remade into the Telugu film Dongalaku Donga (1978).

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20130115223715/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=182&catName=MTk3Ng== [bare URL]
  2. ^ BoxOffice India.com Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Top movies of Shashi Kapoor | 'Fakira'". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 October 2022.