Ziddi is a 1948

Bollywood films of 1948

A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1948:-Highest grossing:The top seven grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1948:-1948:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

 Hindi

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Shaheed Latif

Shaheed Latif

Shaheed Latif or more appropriately Shahid Lateef was Hindi film director, writer, and producer. He was the maker of films like Ziddi with launched Dev Anand's career and Arzoo starring Dilip Kumar and Kamini Kaushal...

. It was based on a story by Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai 1 was an eminent Urdu writer, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology. She was considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, as one of the four pillars of modern Urdu short story, the other three being Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, and Rajinder Singh Bedi...

 and launched the career of Dev Anand as the lead hero. The film helped establish its stars Dev Anand

Dev Anand

Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...

, Kamini Kaushal

Kamini Kaushal

Kamini Kaushal is a Hindi film and television actress, most noted for her roles in films like Neecha Nagar which won the 1946 Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and Biraj Bahu which won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1955.-Early life:Kaushal was born to a botanist and professor at...

 and Pran in Hindi films. The playback singers - Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar recorded their first duet - "Ye Kaun Aya Re" together in this 1948 film Ziddi.

Cast

• Dev Anand
  Dev Anand
  Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...
  
  
• Chanda
  Chanda
  In Hinduism, Chanda was a monster in the service of Sumbha and Nisumbha that Chamunda Devi killed. It is also a popular name in the Hindu community...
  
    (as Chandabai)
• Kamini Kaushal
  Kamini Kaushal
  Kamini Kaushal is a Hindi film and television actress, most noted for her roles in films like Neecha Nagar which won the 1946 Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and Biraj Bahu which won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1955.-Early life:Kaushal was born to a botanist and professor at...
  
  
• Kuldeep
  Kuldeep
  Kuldeep may refer to*Kuldeep Manak, Punjabi singer*Kuldeep Bishnoi, Indian Member of Parliament*Kuldeep Pawar, Marathi Actor*Kuldeep Singh Garcha, Indian Polo Player*Kuldeep Kumar, Indian Politician...
  
  
• Nawab
  Nawab
  A Nawab or Nawaab is an honorific title given to Muslim rulers of princely states in South Asia. It is the Muslim equivalent of the term "maharaja" that was granted to Hindu rulers....
  
  
• Pran

Music

The music of the film was composed by Khemchand Prakash

Khemchand Prakash

Khemchand Prakash in हिन्दी खेमचन्द प्रकाश was one of the greatest music composers in Hindi film industry. He belongs to Sujangarh, Churu. His father was a dhrupad singer and a kathak dancer in the royal court and boy Khemchand got his first training of music and dance from his father...

. The soundtrack featured the first film song sung by playback singer

Playback singer

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

 Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

, "Marne ki duayen kyon mangu", a solo picturised on Dev Anand.
The film also included Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

's solo, "Chanda re ja re ja re, piya se sandesa mora kahiyo jaa" picturised on Kamini Kaushal.