Dharmputra

Name: Dharmputra
Director: Yash Chopra
Released: 1961-01-01

1961 film by Yash Chopra

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Released: 1961
Director: Yash Chopra
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Producer: Baldev Raj Chopra
Cast: Mala Sinha
, Shashi Kapoor
Runtime: 147 min
Genre: drama film
Country of origin: India
Original language: Hindi

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Dharmputra is a 1961 Hindi film directed by Yash Chopra based on a novel of the same name by Acharya Chatursen. This is Yash's second directorial venture. It was the first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism. Produced by his elder brother B.R. Chopra, who was himself uprooted from Lahore, during the partition of India and established B.R. Films in Mumbai in 1956. The film dealt with issues of religious bigotry, fanaticism and communalism amidst the backdrop of the partition. Two years earlier, Yash Chopra had made his debut with Dhool Ka Phool (1959), steeped in Nehruvian secularism, wherein a Muslim brings up an "illegitimate" Hindu child and featured the classic song "Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalman Banega, Insaan Ki Aulaad Hai, Insaan Banega". The theme was reversed in this film as herein a Hindu family brings up an illegitimate Muslim child.

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Narrative location: Delhi
Title: धर्मपुत्र
Website: yashrajfilms.com/Movies/MovieIndividual.aspx?MovieID=f78a2d8b-38df-4fdd-880e-430f81c65778
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