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Dak Ghar is a film of genre Drama with Balraj Sahni
Dak Ghar (1965)
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Genres Drama
Dak Ghar 1965 Bollywood fim based on an eponymous play by Rabindranath Tagore. It was directed by Zul Vellani and starred Sachin, Mukri, AK Hangal, Sudha and Satyen Kappu among others, with cameo appearances by Balraj Sahni and Sharmila Tagore.
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Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new Post Office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fanatasising about visiting the King beyond the hills, and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house.Actors
Balraj Sahni
(Andhe Baba)
Mukri
(Dahiwala)
A. K. Hangal
(Pandit, doctor)
Sachin
(Amal)
Satyen Kappu
(Madhabdutta)
Sharmila Tagore
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