Dosti (1964 film)

Dosti
Dosti
	Film poster
Directed by	Satyen Bose
Written by	Ban Bhatt (story); Govind Moonis (screenplay & dialogues)
Produced by	Tarachand Barjatya
Starring	Sudhir Kumar Sawant; Sushil Kumar Somaya; Sanjay Khan;
Cinematography	Marshall Braganza
Music by	Laxmikant Pyarelal
Distributed by	Rajshri Productions
Release date	6 November 1964;
Running time	163 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹ 2 Crores

Dosti (transl. Friendship) is a 1964 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Satyen Bose, produced by Tarachand Barjatya, and distributed by Rajshri Productions. The film focuses on the friendship between two boys: one blind (Sudhir Kumar Sawant) and the other physically disabled (Sushil Kumar). The film also features Sanjay Khan, Farida Dadi, Nana Palsikar and Leela Mishra in supporting roles. ^[2]

Dosti was amongst the top ten highest grossing films of 1964, declared a "Super Hit" at the box office,^[1] and entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.^[3] In 1977, the film was remade in Malayalam and Telugu^{[clarification needed]} as Sneham.^{[citation needed]} Dosti won six Filmfare Awards out of seven nominated categories.

^ ^a ^b "Box office 1964". Boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
^ The wiki-article on Khan states his debut film was Chetan Anand's film Haqeeqat, also from 1964.
^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 2012-12-02.