''Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar'' ('')'' is a 1973

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directed by Rajendra Bhatia. Its stars

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and

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. This film was adapted from a

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play and later remade in Marathi as ''Pheka Pheki'' (1989) and in Hindi as ''

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'' (2008).

Plot

Sunil Mehta gets stuck in a giant ferris wheel with an attractive young woman all night due to power failure. He arrives home the next day, and meets a very suspicious wife, Geeta, who knows that he has been up to no good. She refuses to believe his story about the stalled ferris wheel, and he invents a story about spending the night with a fictitious friend named Champak Bhumia. Geeta does not believe that he ever has a friend by that name, and decides to write to him to come and visit her. Sunil then convinces his friend, Amit Desai, to pretend that he is Champak, and thus convince Geeta that he was indeed telling the truth. Amit agrees to do so, and everything goes according to plan - until a real and amorous Champak Bhumia shows up - resulting in hilarious chaos.

Cast

as Geeta Mehta *

as Sunil Mehta *

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as Ramji *

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as Champak Bhumia/Amit Desai *

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as Kesari Desai * Paintal as Champak Bhumia *

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as Motiyah Bhumia *

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as Capt. Ranjeet Goel * Arpana Choudhary as Pinky *

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as Woman at party * Arvind Trivadi *

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* H.L. Pardeshi * Parvesh Sawhney * Fatima * Sushil Bhatnagar * Khairati

Soundtrack

All songs were penned by Hasrat Jaipuri.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* 1973 films 1970s Hindi-language films 1973 comedy films Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan Hindi films remade in other languages Hindi-language comedy films {{1970s-Hindi-film-stub