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Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1955 film)

Sabse Bada Rupaiya is a 1955 Bollywood film made by P. L. Santoshi, and starring Sunder, Shashikala, Agha, Alhad, and Achla Sachdev.It had songs sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar....

 directed by P.L. Santoshi.

Sabse Bada Rupaiya is a 1976

1976 in film

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 Hindi film, produced by Mehmood and directed by S. Ramanathan

S. Ramanathan

S. Ramanathan was a Carnatic music singer and musicologist.He learned music from Tiger Varadachariar, Sabesa Iyer, Ponniah Pillai, and Sathur Krishna Iyengar. He received a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where he also taught.He had disciples who have...

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The film stars Mehmood, Vinod Mehra

Vinod Mehra

Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...

, Moushumi Chatterjee, Farida Jalal

Farida Jalal

- Career :Farida Jalal, a native of New Delhi, started her career in the 1960s, when she won the United Film Producers Talent Hunt sponsored by Filmfare. She usually played the sister or rejected fiancée of the male lead, but almost never the female lead...

, Asit Sen, Agha

Agha (actor)

Agha was an Indian film producer in Bollywood films, who started his film career with the film Daulat in 1937.He was known for comic roles and appeared in over 180 Hindi films in his career between 1937 and 1989 spanning five decades....

, Keshto Mukherjee

Keshto Mukherjee

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 and Jeevan.

The title song "Sabse bada rupaiya" is inspired by the music to the title song of the Hollywood musical 42nd Street

42nd Street (film)

-Cast:*Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, director*Bebe Daniels as Dorothy Brock, star*George Brent as Pat Denning, Dorothy's old vaudeville partner*Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, the newcomer*Guy Kibbee as Abner Dillon, the show's backer...

(1933). The song would be used again in a Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan

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 starrer Bluffmaster

Bluffmaster

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 (2005) in the opening credits.

Cast

• Mehmood ... Neki Ram
• Vinod Mehra
  Vinod Mehra
  Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...
  
   ... Amit Rai
• Moushumi Chatterjee ... Sunita
• Farida Jalal
  Farida Jalal
  - Career :Farida Jalal, a native of New Delhi, started her career in the 1960s, when she won the United Film Producers Talent Hunt sponsored by Filmfare. She usually played the sister or rejected fiancée of the male lead, but almost never the female lead...
  
   ... Bindiya
• Sulochana Latkar ... Mrs. Rai
• Chandrashekhar
  Chandrashekhar
  Chandrashekhar is a prolific Indian film actor working in the Bollywood film industry.He has appeared in some 112 films since his 1954 in Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani .In 1984 he appeared in Sharaabi....
  
   ... Doctor
• Jeevan ... Seth Dhanraj

Songs

• • Vada Karo Jaanam-Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
  • Bahi jaiyo na raani (Usha Mangeshkar)
  • Na biwi na bachcha, na baap (Mehmood)