Waqt (1965 film)

Waqt
Waqt
	1965 movie poster
Directed by	Yash Chopra
Written by	Akhtar Mirza (story); Akhtar-Ul-Iman (dialogue)
Produced by	B. R. Chopra
Starring	Sunil Dutt; Raaj Kumar; Shashi Kapoor; Sadhana; Sharmila Tagore; Balraj Sahni; Achala Sachdev; Rehman; Madan Puri
Cinematography	Dharam Chopra
Edited by	Pran Mehra
Music by	Ravi; Sahir Ludhianvi (lyrics)
Production; company	B. R. Films
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release date	28 July 1965;
Running time	206 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹6 crore (equivalent to ₹400 crore or US$48 million in 2023)

Waqt (translation: Time) is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language Bollywood masala film directed by Yash Chopra, produced by B. R. Chopra and written by Akhtar Mirza and Akhtar-Ul-Iman. It was included in the British Film Institute's long list of films in consideration for its top ten of Indian films award. Released in India on 28 July 1965, the film stars an ensemble cast of Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Sadhana Shivdasani, Sharmila Tagore, Balraj Sahni, Achala Sachdev, Rehman and Madan Puri. It pioneered the concept of Hindi films with ensemble casts.^[2]

The plot of the film re-introduced the "lost and reunite" formula to Bollywood, originally featured in the 1943 Ashok Kumar-Mumtaz Shanti-starrer Kismet. A happy family separated by waqt (time) goes through a series of trials trying to reunite. The film was later remade in Telugu as Bhale Abbayilu (1969) and in Malayalam as Kolilakkam (1981). The film contains the Hindi songs "Hum Jab Simat Ke", sung by Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhosle, "Waqt se din aur raat", sung by Mohammed Rafi, "Aage Bhi Jaane Na Tu", sung by Asha Bhosle and "Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen", sung by Manna Dey, composed by Ravi and picturised on Balraj Sahni and Achala Sachdev.

^ "Waqt (1965)". BOTY. 3 February 2018.
^ Chopra, Anupama (2007). King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema. Grand Central Publishing. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-446-57858-5.

[1] "Waqt (1965)". BOTY. 3 February 2018.

[2] Chopra, Anupama (2007). King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema. Grand Central Publishing. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-446-57858-5.

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