- Kunwara Baap
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name = Kunwara Baap
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director =Mehmood
producer = Amarlal Chabria
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starring =Mehmood
Sanjeev KumarLalita Pawar
music =Rajesh Roshan
cinematography = Prabhakar N niklankar
editing = Bhagwant Deshpande
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released = 1974
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country = flagicon|India India
language = Hindi
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imdb_id = 0071730"Kunwara Baap" is a 1974 Hindi movie produced by Amarlal Chabria and directed by and starring
Mehmood . The film also starsBharathi (actress) , and Sanjeev Kumar. It's a film with a serious message about getting vaccinated from polio. However,Mehmood did some comedy scenes in the film to earn aFilmfare nomination as Best Comic, the only nomination for the film. [ [http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf 1st Filmfare Awards 1953 ] ]Rajesh Roshan makes his debut as a film composer. The hijra song "Saj Rahi Gali" sung byMohd. Rafi topped the annual Binaca Geet Mala, which was the only countdown show at the time. [ [http://www.screenindia.com/old/feb5/music1.htm Films1 ] ]The following artists had a guest role in the film:-
*Amitabh Bachchan
*Dharmendra
*Vinod Khanna
*Vinod Mehra
*Yogeeta Bali
*Hema Malini
*Dara Singh
*Lalita Pawar Plot
Bharathi (actress) plays an abandoned wife of a playboy (Vinod Mehra ). She has a child with him and couldn't cope raising the baby boy alone and leaves him outside of a temple, where he gets taken in by a rikshawala (Mehmood ). The boy developspolio because of the shabby living conditions, and the rikshawala feels guilty after a doctor (Sanjeev Kumar ) admonishes him. He takes care of the boy and loves him as his own. In the mean time, the boy's real-life parents reconcile and turn to a police officer (Vinod Khanna ) for help in finding their missing son. Finally, when the child is 12 years old, he is reconciled with the parents, but the rikshawala won't give him up. The policeman urges him to do, as the wealthy parents can pay for the operation that can make the boy walk again. He does sorrowfully. But the boy comes back with his parents to see the rikshawala die. After his death,Mehmood , the actor, gets up and explains to the audience that his death was for the camera, but polio is real and deadly and that people should get their children vaccinated.References
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