Pardesi (1957 film)

Pardesi
Indian poster
Directed byKhwaja Ahmad Abbas
Vasili Pronin
Written byKhwaja Ahmad Abbas
Mariya Smirnova
Produced byNaya Sansar
Mosfilm Studio
StarringOleg Strizhenov
Nargis
Padmini
Prithviraj Kapoor
Balraj Sahni
CinematographyRamchandra
V. V. Nikolaev
Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis
Music byAnil Biswas
Boris Chaikovsky
Release date
  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
110 min.
CountriesIndia
Soviet Union
LanguagesHindi
Russian

Pardesi (Hindi: Pardesi, lit. 'Foreigner'; Russian: Хождение за три моря, romanized: Khozhdenie za tri morya, lit. 'Journey Beyond the Three Seas') is a 1957 film jointly directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin.[1][2] It was made in two versions, Hindi and Russian, and is based on the travelogues of Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin, called A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, which is now considered a Russian literary monument.

Made during the high time of Indo-Russian amity, Pardesi is an Indo-Soviet co-production between the state-owned Mosfilm and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's Naya Sansar International production house.

The film has music by Anil Biswas, and had some memorable hits such as Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re, by Meena Kapoor, Na Dir Dim, by Lata Mangeshkar and was danced to by Padmini.[3] The film was in SovColor, though no colour print of the Hindi version is known to survive in India. Only a black and white copy of the Hindi film survives.

  1. ^ Mahmood, Hameeduddin (1974). "Pardesi fourth Ind-Soviet co-production". The Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema. Affiliated East-West Press. pp. 17, 84.
  2. ^ Thompson, Howard (11 April 1960). "Screen: Adventure Story:' Journey Beyond Three Seas' at the Cameo". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  3. ^ Na dir dim on YouTube