| Meri Bahen | |
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| Directed by | Hemchander Chunder |
| Written by | Binoy Chatterjee |
| Produced by | New Theatres |
| Starring | K. L. Saigal Sumitra Devi Akhtar Jehan Chandravati Madan Puri |
| Music by | Pankaj Mullick |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Meri Bahen (also called My Sister) is a 1944 Hindi language film.[1] It was the fourth highest-grossing Indian film of 1944.[2] Produced by New Theatres, Ltd. Calcutta, and directed by Hemchander Chunder. It starred K. L. Saigal, Sumitra Devi, Akhtar Jehan, Chandrabati Devi, Nawab, and Tulsi Chakraborty.[3] The music direction was by Pankaj Mullick with lyrics by Pandit Bhushan.[4][5]
The film is cited as Saigal's best film at New Theatres technically. Set against the backdrop of World War II in Calcutta, it was the story of a schoolteacher and his young sister. The film followed his rise to fame as a singer and the changes in his relationships following a bomb-raid.
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- ^ "Top Earners 1944". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ "Meri Bahen (1944)". Gomolo.com. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ "My Sister". Cinemas of India. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Songs-Meri Bahen". MySwar.com. Retrieved 31 January 2015.