''Andaleeb'' is a 1969

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colour film starring

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, and

Mustafa Qureshi Mustafa Qureshi (born 11 May 1938) is a Pakistani film and television actor. He has acted in more than 600 movies, in Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi languages. He is best remembered for playing the antagonist Noori Natt in '' Maula Jatt'' (1979) ...

, and Talish. It was a golden jubilee hit directed by Farid Ahmed, produced by Rashid Mukhtar, and music composed by

Nisar Bazmi Nisar Bazmi (1 December 1924 – 22 March 2007) was a composer and music director of Indian and Pakistan film industry. Nisar Bazmi was known as one of the accomplished musician of South Asia. He also introduced new singers like Alamgir and Me ...

. ''Andaleeb'' received 4

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in different categories.

Plot

This film is a musical love story based on Salma Kanwal's novel by the same title, "''Andaleeb''".

Cast

Aliya Begum Aliya, also known as Aaliya ( Punjabi, ) is a Pakistani film actress. She acted in both Urdu and Punjabi films and is known for her roles in films '' Andaleeb'', '' Anhoni'', '' Maula Jatt'', '' Yeh Adam'', '' Lado Rani'' and '' Neend Hamari Kh ...

* Talish *

Salma Mumtaz Salma Mumtaz (1926 – 20 January 2012) was a Pakistani film actress, film director and producer. Early life and career Salma Mumtaz was born in Jalandhar, British India in 1926. She moved to Pakistan with her family after independence of Paki ...

* Lehri * Ibrahim Nafees * Rajni * Baby Durdana * Atia Ashraf * Talat Siddiqi * Meena Chaudhry * Pandit Shahed * Sultana Iqbal *

Niggo Niggo (died 5 January 1972) was a popular traditional Pakistan, Pakistani dancer and film Actor, actress. She mainly worked on Punjabi language, Punjabi and Cinema of Pakistan, Urdu films in the 1960s. Early life Niggo was born in Lahore, Pa ...

* Meena Chaudhary

Music

The music of the film was composed by well-known musician

. The song ''Kuch log rooth kar be lagte hain kitne pyare'' written by

Masroor Anwar Masroor Anwar (6 January 1944 – 1 April 1996) was a ghazal poet, film song lyricist and a film screenwriter. He wrote the lyrics for 'Ko Ko Korina', South Asia's first pop song, and working alongside Sohail Rana, film director Pervez Mal ...

was one of his big super-hit songs for 1969. Songs of the film are: * by

Runa Laila Runa Laila (born 17 November 1952) is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer. She started her career in the Pakistani film industry in the late 1960s. Her style of singing is inspired by Pakistani playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and also f ...

* by

Ahmad Rushdi Ahmed Rushdi (; 24 April 1934 – 11 April 1983) was a versatile Pakistani playback singer and was "an important contributor to the golden age of Pakistani film music". Regarded as one of the greatest singers in South Asia who could sing high ...

Soundtrack of film Andaleeb (1969) on IMDb website
Retrieved 25 May 2019 * by

* by

and

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* by

, film song written by

Kaleem Usmani Kaleem Usmani (born Ehtisham Ilahi; 28 February 1928 28 August 2000) was a Pakistani Urdu poet who wrote ghazals, naats, patriotic songs and more than one hundred songs for thirty-seven Urdu films. He earned recognition as a lyricist by winn ...

* by

and Dina Laila

Box office

The film was a golden jubilee hit, completing 56 weeks in theaters.

Awards

''Andaleeb'' won four

in the following categories:

Trivia

Initially, the actress

was not able to speak Urdu fluently, so for ''Andaleeb'', her dialogues were by a lady ''Kaukab Afzal''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andaleeb 1969 films Pakistani romantic drama films Urdu-language Pakistani films 1960s Urdu-language films Nigar Award winners Films based on Pakistani novels