Pagla Kahin Ka

<p>Sujit ( ) started having mental problems when he was six years old after visiting his dad, Ajit, at a mental asylum. Thereafter, he kept on getting into trouble, and even ran away from the orphanage. Years later, a musician and singer, Shyam ( ), finds Sujit singing on the roadside, and decides to hire him as a singer in a nightclub. This is where Sujit meets dancer, Jenny ( ), and both fall in love with each other. When they announce their plans to get married, the news does not augur well with the nightclub’s owner, Max. An argument ensues, Max draws a gun, and Shyam ends up killing Max. Sujit decides to take the blame and is arrested by the police. In order to escape the gallows, he feigns insanity, and is ordered to be admitted to a mental asylum until he recovers. In the asylum, he is placed under the compassionate care of Dr. Shalini ( ) and about a year later is discharged. He returns to the nightclub just in time for Jenny’s and Shyam’s engagement party. Baffled, confused and angered at this betrayal, he really does go insane and ends up being re-admitted in the very same asylum. But this time his chances of recovery are very slim as he has retreated deep into the inner recesses of his mind – from where he may never return. Even though does her usual cabaret dance number in this film, it still contains one of her most dramatic roles, as she plays a rape victim. wrote, “the film is as bad as one can expect any film with Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh to be”. The film was not commercially successful. Leading lady said audiences didn’t want to see play a madman. Nevertheless, the film remains one of her personal favorites, calling it a “beautiful film.” In her 2017 memoir “The Hit Girl”, she wrote that loved the song “Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Paaoge” so much that in his later years, he used it as a ringtone for his cellphone. She also found it to be one of her favorite songs and said she felt privileged to have Lata Mangeshkar’s version picturized on her. The song was played at Lata Mangeshkar’s funeral in 2022. Director , impressed by Parekh’s performance in this film, cast her again in (1970), which became commercially successful, and won her the . Her co-star also called it a “very nice film.” Actor wanted to star in the Tamil remake and asked to direct it, but Ratnam declined. This article about a Hindi film of the 1970s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>