Director: Kalidas; Writer: Ramesh Pant; Producer: Kalidas; Cinematographer: Apurba Bhattacharjee; Editor: Raj Talwar; Cast: Kishore Kumar, Pran, Madhubala (Begum Mumtaz Jehan), Manorama, Om Prakash, Helen, Shammi, Tuntun, Moni Chatterjee, Sailen Bose, Dilip Mukherjee, Anil Ganguly, B.R. Kapoor, Mauji, Zeb Rehman, Narbada Shankar, Mirajkar, Poonam, Lalita Kapoor, Anil Kumar, Nabo Kumar, Arun Ghosh, Nazir Kashmiri, Kirit Vyas, Robin Kumar, Mirza Musharraf, Pradeep Kumar
Duration: 02:05:03; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 103.176; Saturation: 0.015; Lightness: 0.391; Volume: 0.146; Cuts per Minute: 13.586; Words per Minute: 55.822
Summary: Slapstick crime thriller parodying the genre with Indian cinema’s weirdest and most sustained chase sequence. Raja Babu (Pran) stuffs stolen diamonds into the hip pocket of Vijay (Kumar), standing in front of him in a railway ticket queue. Vijay, a rich man’s socialist son with a bizarre way of organising protests, is running away from home dressed in shorts and a schoolboy cap to obtain the half- price ticket available to schoolchildren. Throughout the rest of the film, Raja Babu chases Vijay and keeps making ineffectual grabs at the hero’s hip pocket as they go through Bombay, visit a Cossack stage dance with Helen, a nautanki performance and eventually wind up in a crane, a hot-air balloon and an aeroplane that lands them atop a palm tree. The crazy plot recalls the Tashlin/Lewis films and the Marx Brothers as well as the boisterous traditions of Indian urbanised folk theatre.
Aerial fantasy sequence in Kishore Kumar's screwball comedy - in which Kumar, playing a child to save on his ticket fare, carries a diamond in his hip pocket that the villain Pran is trying to extract. Now both of them hang on the hook of a crane as buildings are back-projected.
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