Noorie

Noorie
Directed byManmohan Krishna
Written bySagar Sarhadi
Produced byYash Chopra
StarringFarooq Shaikh
Poonam Dhillon
Madan Puri
Music byKhayyam
Jan Nisar Akhtar (lyrics)
Naqsh Lyallpuri (lyrics)
Production
company
Distributed byYash Raj Films
Release date
  • 11 May 1979 (1979-05-11)
Running time
114min
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi-Urdu[1]
Box office50 million (US$6.14 million) (India)[2]

Noorie is a 1979 Indian romance film produced by Yash Chopra, and directed by Manmohan Krishna; this is his only film as director. The film stars Farooq Shaikh, Poonam Dhillon, Madan Puri and Iftekhar. The film's music is by Khayyam and the lyrics by Jan Nisar Akhtar.

The film was a "Super-Hit" and the seventh highest-grossing film at the Indian box office in 1979.[2] It was also an overseas hit in China, where it released in 1981,[3] and became one of the most successful Indian films in China at the time, along with Awaara and Caravan.[4]

  1. ^ Ramachandran, T. M.; Rukmini, S. (1985). "Urdu Cinema". 70 Years of Indian Cinema, 1913–1983. Cinema India-International. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-86132-090-5.
  2. ^ a b Box Office 1979 Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "印度片現在這麼火也不是沒有原因的". Xuehua. 7 April 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Dangal underlines popularity of Indian films in China". China Daily. 20 July 2017.