''Joshila'' ( English: Spirited) is a 1973

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directed by

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. The film stars

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and

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. Most outdoor parts of the movie were shot in

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. The film is loosely inspired by

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's 1959 novel, ''Shock Treatment''.

Cast

- Amar / Madanlal Dogra (Fake) *

- Shalini *

- Sapna *

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- Thakur Rajpal Singh *

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- Rani *

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- Madanlal Dogra *

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- Jailor *

Padma Khanna Padma Khanna is an Indian actress, dancer and director. She appeared mainly in Hindi and Bhojpuri films in the 1970s and 1980s. She is most remembered for her role in the film '' Saudagar'' with Amitabh Bachchan and also as Queen Kaikeyi in ...

- Manju *

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- Lala Gulzarilal *

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- Mrs. Gulzarilal * Sudhir - Kundan *

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- Sher Singh * Master Satyajeet - Ravi *

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- Raunaq Singh *

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- Manohar *

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- Dinesh (Sapna's Brother) *

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- Inspector Manjit *

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- (as Jagdishraj) * Mahendra Sandhu *Uma Dutt - Solicitor

Plot

Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captivating daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself. The two of them spend beautiful moments together and finds themselves attracted to each other. Shalini wants to find out why Amar is in jail. She is told in no uncertain terms that Amar is in jail for murder - for killing the brother of his former lover, Sapna. She also found out that this is not true and would strive to the best of her merit to get Amar release from jail because she is in love with him and would like to marry him. Later after his release he found his mother in a very poor condition, he also found his sister as a dancer in a nightclub, where Madanlal Dogra an old friend from his prisoners day came to him, and assured to help him. Later Madanlal murdered by some of his rivals. Amar decided to go for the job as Madanlal Dogra, where he finds Shalini in Darjeeling Station. Amar joined as a estate manager in Thakur Rajpal Singh's estate. In some days he realised that Thakur's wife was intended to kill her husband. Shalini later came as Thakur Rajpal Singh's daughter. After police vigorously search for the murderer of Dogra they found the name of Amer. Knowing the truth Amer's mother rush for Darjeeling, where she was kidnapped by Kundan with her family. At last Amer saves Thakur Rajpal Singh and his family after a fight, married Shalini and they started to live in Darjeeling, with his family.

Crew

*''Director'' -

*''Story'' -

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*''Screenplay'' -

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, C. J. Pavri *''Dialogue'' - Akhtar-Ul-Iman *''Producer'' -

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*''Editor'' - Pran Mehra *''Cinematographer'' -

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*''Art Director'' - R. G. Gaekwad *''Assistant Director'' -

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(chief), Vasudev Dheer, Dilip Naik *''Assistant Editor'' - T. R. Mangeshkar (chief), Achyut Y. Gupte (color consultant) *''Assistant Art Director'' - Sudhir Gaekwad *''Stunts'' - Ravi Khanna,

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*''Makeup'' - Pandhari Juker *''Production Manager'' - R. L. Bajaj, Devdutt Bharti *''Costume and Wardrobe'' - Meeta Hassan, Wilmary Ventura, Suresh Bhatt, P. L. Raj *''Original Music'' - R. D. Burman *''Music Assistant'' - Manohari Singh *''Lyricist'' -

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*''Playback Singers'' -

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Music

All songs written by Sahir Ludhianvi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman.

External links

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Yash Raj Films Yash Raj Films (YRF) is an Indian film production and distribution company founded by filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970. Since 2012, it has been led by his son Aditya Chopra. The company mainly produces and distributes Hindi films. History In 19 ...

References

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