Holi (1940 film)

Holi (Festival Of Colour) is a 1940 Hindi/Urdu social drama film directed by A. R. Kardar. Holi was produced by Ranjit Movietone and had music composed by Khemchand Prakash with lyrics by D. N. Madhok. It had Khursheed and Motilal starring in the lead with Sitara Devi, Ishwarlal, Keshavrao Date, Dixit, Ghory and Manohar Kapoor.

Holi
Film poster
Directed byA. R. Kardar
Written byM. Sadiq
Produced byChandulal Shah
Starring
CinematographyKrishna Gopal
Music byKhemchand Prakash
Production
company
Ranjit Movietone
Release date
1940
Running time
137 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

With two love stories as a format, the film pits the rich against the poor, in the shape of two pairs of lovers; a poor-girl-rich-boy, and a rich-boy-poor-girl. The film showed Motilal as a villain who reforms through the love of Kokila, played by Khursheed.

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