''Parvarish'' () is a 1958

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-language film starring

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in the lead roles. It was later adapted into the

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play ''Petral Thaan Pillaiya'', which in turn was adapted into the Tamil film '' Paar Magaley Paar'' (1963).

Plot

After a hospital accident, a wealthy man is compelled to adopt a prostitute's son. After the incident, Thakur Jaswant takes both the infants with him. They wait for the guardian of the other child. As they are not able to make out which child is whose. After some days, a man named Banke Bihari comes to meet Jaswant. He tells him, that the other child, who is the son of a prostitute, is his nephew and the prostitute was his sister. The lady left this world after giving birth to her son in that fire accident. So, he wants to take the other child with him. But he is also unable to identify which child is his nephew. Jaswant then brings up both the children as his own. This things insults him in the society as he has adopted a prostitute's son. His all friends and partners refuse to marry their daughters to any of the Jaswant's son. But his friends promises to marry his daughter to Jaswant's son. As the time passes 3 of the children grow up. Things take a turn when both the boys want to marry a same girl

Cast

as Raja Singh *

as Asha Singh *

as Ramesh Singh *

Nazir Hussain Nazir Hussain (15 May 1922 – 16 October 1987) was an Indian actor, director and screenwriter. He was famous as a character actor in Hindi cinema and was a pioneer of Bhojpuri cinema. He acted in almost 500 films, with Dev Anand starring in ...

as Thakur Jaswant Singh *

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as Thakurain Rukmani Singh * Krishnakant as Thakur Harnam Singh "Bade Thakur" * Radhakrishan as Ustad Banke Bihari "Mama" * Brahm Bhardwaj as Doctor * Jennifer Murray as Dancer / Singer

Soundtrack

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt0052051 1950s Hindi-language films 1958 films Films adapted into plays 1950s Indian films