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Howrah Bridge is a film of genre Crime directed by Shakti Samanta with Madhubala
Howrah Bridge (1958)
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Add to a movie listHowrah Bridge is a 1958 film directed by Shakti Samanta. Its name is a reference to Howrah Bridge, which connects Howrah to Kolkata over the Hooghly River. It features the well known Hindi song "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu"which was reused in the film Salaam Bombay!. This song was sung by Geeta Dutt and picturised on Helen. Director Samanta also said that the sensuous club number "Aaiye Meherbaan" picturized on Madhubala was also very memorable. The Music Director is O. P. Nayyar. The songs of this film were penned by the famous lyricist and Urdu poet Qamar Jalalabadi. The film performed "above average" at the box office.
There is an intertextual reference to the song "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu" in Karan Johar's 1998 film "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" (just before the song Koi Mil Gaya).
Actors
Madhubala
Ashok Kumar
(Prem Kumar)
K. N. Singh (Krishan Niranjan Singh)
(Pyarelal)
Om Prakash
(Shyam)
Madan Puri
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