Kala Pani (कला पानी) 1958

Published on November 15, 2011 in Cinema

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Banner	Navketan Films
Director	Raj Khosla
Writer	A.J. Cronin
Producer	Dev Anand
Orginal music	Sachin Dev Burman
Cinematography	V. Ratra
Film Editing	Dharamvir
Art Director	Biren Nag
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Assistant Cameramen
Playback Singers	Asha Bhosle, Mohammad Rafi

Character	Actor / Actress
Karan Mehra	Dev Anand
Asha	Madhubala
Kishori	Nalini Jaywant
Badru	Agha
Inspector Mehta	Nasir Hussain
Diwan Sardarilal	D.K. Sapru
Rai Bahadur Jaswant Rai	Kishore Sahu
Jumman	Krishan Dhawan
Madhosh Miyan	Mukri
Editor at the press company	Bir Sakuja
Daulat Chand	Jankidas
Hotel Owner	Praveen Paul
Mrs. Shankerlal Mehra	Mumtaz Begum
Dr. R.P. Kapoor	R.P. Kapoor
Ramdas	Rashid Khan
	M.A. Latif
	Heera Sawant
	Shyam
	Prem Kumar
	Samson
	Ravikant

Karan Mehra lives with his widowed mother in a city in India. One day his mother tells him that she is not really a widow, that her husband, Shankerlal, is still alive, serving a life sentence in prison in Hyderabad for killing a prostitute by the name of Mala. She had decided to not have anything to do with him when she found out that he was having an affair with Mala. Karan wants to see his father, and accordingly travels to Hyderabad, meets his father, who convinces him of his innocence. Karan decides to do some research of his own and delves into old newspapers dating back to 1943 when the British ruled India. It is here that he meets and falls in love with Asha, a Reporter, who also happens to be the niece of his landlord. Then one day Asha finds out that Karan has been secretly visiting a prostitute by the name of Kishori, and decides not to have to do anything with him. It looks like Karan is following in his father's foot-steps, which may well lead to history repeating itself, with Karan alienating his mother, ending up in prison or even facing the death sentence.