''Kohinoor'' is a 1960

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produced by V. N. Sinha and directed by S. U. Sunny. The film stars

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, Meena Kumari, Leela Chitnis and Kumkum. The film's music is by

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. A huge box-office success, it was the third-highest grossing Indian film of 1960. The film was a blockbuster at the box office in India. It is said that Dilip Kumar went into depression after playing tragic roles in films such as Devdas (1955) and his psychiatrist recommended to him to do light roles. One such role that he took up was Kohinoor. Kohinoor cast Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari to play a prince and princess of different kingdoms and was full of sword fights, songs and dances. This film is also notable for some rare comical and funny scenes by Meena Kumari, who is otherwise known as the tragedy queen. Its tone was light and it lacked the intense characterizations of their earlier films. The film included the melodic songs "Madhuban Mein Radhika Nache Re" and "Do Sitaron Ka Zameen Par Hai Milan Aaj Ki Raat".

Cast

- Rajkumar Dhivendra Pratap Chandrabhan * Meena Kumari - Princess Chandramukhi *Azim - Surindar Singh *Bina * Leela Chitnis - Deewan Veer Singh's Wife & Surindar Singh's Monther * Jeevan - Rajgarh's Senapati *Raja Kapur *

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- Deewan Veer Singh *Kumar - Raj Nartaki Rajlaxmi's Father * Kumkum - Rajgarh's Raj Nartaki Rajlaxmi *Rekha Mallick *

Mukri Mohammed Umar Mukri (5 January 1922 – 4 September 2000), popularly known as Mukri, was an Indian actor, who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. Born as Muhammad Umar Mukri in Uran. He started his film career with the film ''Pratima'' along ...

*Nissar *Qamar *M.Y. Shaikh *Sood *

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Press Release, Naushad Naushad Ali (25 December 1919 – 5 May 2006) was an Indian composer for Hindi films. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and foremost music directors of the Hindi film industry. He is particularly known for popularising the use of ...

and lyrics were penned by

Shakeel Badayuni Shakeel Badayuni (3 August 1916 – 20 April 1970) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films. Early life Shakeel Badayuni was born in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadi ...

. The soundtrack became a cult favourite among music lovers for its soul stirring music compositions. The soundtrack consists of 10 songs, featuring vocals by

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and Asha Bhonsle. The best known song in the soundtrack is ''Madhuban Mein Radhika Nache Re'', a classical dance song, composed on rāga Hamir and sung by

8th Filmfare Awards

;Won * Filmfare Award for Best Actor for

* Filmfare Best Editing Award for Moosa Mansoor ;Nominated *

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for Kumkum

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* {{IMDb title, 0053999, Kohinoor 1960 films 1960s Hindi-language films 1960s Indian films Films scored by Naushad Filmfare Awards winners