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Bollywood films of 1973

A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1973:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1973:Box office verdict of last twelve films in the above list are flops.-1973:-External links:...

 Bollywood ghost movie directed by Mani Kaul

Mani Kaul

Mani Kaul was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Started his career with Uski Roti , which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win...

. The film stars Ravi Menon and Raisa Padamsee. The film was critically acclaimed and won the director National Film Award for Best Direction and Critics Award for Best film

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie

The Filmfare Awards are the oldest and most prominent film awards given for Hindi films in India. The yearly awards started in 1953. Movie awards were first given by popular vote...

 at the 1974 Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...

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The film is based on a story by Vijayadan Detha which relates a popular folktale from Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 about merchant’s son (Ravi Menon) whose relationship with his young bride (Raisa Padamsee) is thwarted by his work and a ghost who falls in love with her, resulting in the ghost soon impersonating the husband.The film was extensively shot in Borunda, village of the author Vijay Dan Detha' Bijji'.

Trivia

The Amol Palekar

Amol Palekar

Amol Palekar is an Indian actor of the 1970s and a director of Hindi and Marathi cinema.-Theater career:Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972 [citation needed]...

 movie, Paheli

Paheli

Paheli is a Bollywood ghost movie, released in India on 24 June 2005, directed by Amol Palekar and produced by Gauri Khan, Sanjiv Chawla and Shahrukh Khan, who also plays the male lead...

, released in 2005, is also based on the same story. On request of Palekar' Bijji' expanded the original story.