Chori Chori (1956 film)

Chori Chori
Film poster
Directed by	Anant Thakur
Written by	Agha Jani Kashmiri
Screenplay by	Agha Jani Kashmiri
Produced by	L. B. Lachman
Starring	Raj Kapoor Nargis
Cinematography	V. N. Reddy
Edited by	S. Surya
Music by	Shankar Jaikishan
Production company	AVM Productions
Distributed by	AVM Productions
Release date	6 April 1956 (1956-04-06)[1]
Running time	158 min.
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹ 0.4 crore[2]
Box office	₹6.04 crore[2]

Chori Chori (English: Stealthily) is a 1956 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Anant Thakur. It stars Raj Kapoor, Nargis in lead roles.^[3] Pran, Johnny Walker, Gope, David, Mukri, Bhagwan Dada have character parts. It is an adaptation of the 1934 American film It Happened One Night.^[4] This was the last film of Nargis and Kapoor together as leads, with Nargis doing one cameo appearance in the Kapoor starrer Jagte Raho (1956).

Music was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan and lyrics were written by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra. The music of Chori Chori had popular tracks including romantic songs "Aaja Sanam", "Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi", "Jahan Mein Jati Hoon" in the voices of Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey and comedy number "Sawa Lakh Ki Lottery," by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi.^[5] Sequences for songs "Panchhi Banoon Udti Phiroon" and "Jahan Main Jaati Hoon" were shot and released in Technicolor. This was known to be AVM Productions's first film to contain sequences in colour. The film was later entirely remastered and colourised.^[6]