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Rattan (film)
Directed byM. Sadiq
Written byR.S. Choudhury, D. N. Madhok
StarringSwaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Banu
Release date
1944
Running time
118 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Rattan or Ratan is a 1944 Indian Bollywood film starring Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Bano. It was a highly successful movie of 1944.[1] The film is noted as the film which made Naushad one of the top contributors to music in Indian films and enabled him to demand a fee of Rs 25000 a film.The heroine of the movie Swaran Lata had said in a live interview with the Pakistan Television years later that the tunes of the songs of Rattan were set by the lyricist D. N. Madhok himself.

Abdul Rashid Kardar production spent rupees seventy five thousand in 1944 to make ‘Rattan’. The music by Naushad Ali was such a phenomenal hit that the company earned Rs 3 lacs as royalty from Gramophone sales in the first year.

Cast

Music

The film had music by Naushad, with lyrics by the renowned poet of the 1940s D. N. Madhok

References

  1. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EzE8s1u7rE, Rattan (film) on YouTube, Retrieved 22 May 2016
  2. ^ http://muvyz.com/moviepage/gn647802, film cast of Rattan on muvyz.com website, Retrieved 22 May 2016
  3. ^ http://www.hindigeetmala.net/movie/ratan.htm, Rattan (film) soundtracks on hindigeetmala.net website, Retrieved 22 May 2016
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