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Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1976 film)

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Sabse Bada Rupaiya
Directed byS. Ramanathan
Written byAbrar Alvi (Screenplay)
Abrar Alvi (Dialogue)
Babbanlal Yadav (Dialogue)
Based onKasidre Kailasa (1971)
Produced byMehmood
StarringMehmood
Vinod Mehra
Moushumi Chatterjee
CinematographyAnwar Siraj
Edited byA. Paul Dorai Singam
Music byBasu Manohari
Release date
  • 31 March 1976 (1976-03-31)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Sabse Bada Rupaiya (transl. Money is the Greatest) is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language film, produced by Mehmood and directed by S. Ramanathan.The film stars Mehmood, Vinod Mehra, Moushumi Chatterjee, Farida Jalal, Asit Sen, Agha, Keshto Mukherjee and Jeevan. The title song Sabse Bada Rupaiya is inspired by the music to the title song of the Hollywood musical 42nd Street (1933). The song was used again in an Abhishek Bachchan-starrer Bluffmaster (2005) in the opening credits.[1] The core plot of the movie is based on the 1971 Kannada movie Kasidre Kailasa.

Cast

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Plot

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Generous and honest to a fault, multi-millionaire Amit Rai is always ready to lend a helping hand to the needy, even his business associates. His employee and close friend, Nekiram, warns him against doing this, but in vain. Then hard times befall him and his family, and he loses all his wealth, even his palatial home and items therein are to be auctioned. All the people he had helped, his business associates, even his fiancee, Sunita, abandon him. Penniless, homeless, and with a widowed mother, and an unwed sister, he re-locates near a hill station, to begin life anew and works as a labourer in an orchard. It is there he finds out that his financial ruin did not take place by chance, but it was a deliberate and deceptive plot to rid him of his riches.

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References

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  1. ^ "Various the Essential Guide to Bollywood CD". www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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