Waqt (1965 film)
| Waqt | |
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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 |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | B. R. Films |
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Running time | 179 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Waqt (translation: Time) is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language masala film directed by Yash Chopra, produced by B. R. Chopra and written by Akhtar Mirza and Akhtar-Ul-Iman. Released in India on 28 July 1965, the film had 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.
The plot of the film re-introduced the "lost and found" formula to Hindi cinema, originally featured in the Ashok Kumar & Mumtaz Shanti starrer Kismet (1943). 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).