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Chhotisi Mulaqat (1967)

  • Release Date1967
  • GenreRomance
  • FormatColor
  • LanguageHindi
  • Run Time142 mins
  • Length4515.38 metres
  • Number of Reels17
  • Gauge35mm
  • Censor RatingU
  • Censor Certificate Number50616
  • Shooting LocationKardar Studios, Filmistan
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They met in the glamorous holiday world of Simla. She (R U PA) was a ravishing beauty, and he (ASHOK) a rich & handsome man about-town. It was generally conceded that they would have made the ideal couple, if only Ashok did not tease and torment Rupa every time he met her.  Could, then, such a situation blossom into love?  The answer was provided when Ashok followed Rupa back to Bombay, to win her heart and the approval of Rupa's mother, a woman professing an ultra-modern view of love and life. So much so, that she deliberately shut out a disturbing  incident  that  lurked  in  the  shadows  of the days  gone  by.

The imminent announcement of an engagement brought Rupa's cousin (SONIA) rushing to Bombay. Sonia had  pinned her hopes on claiming Ashok as her very own, and regretted the day when she had introduced him to Rupa. In a fit of jealousy and remorse, she told Ashok of the harrowing truth - the truth that Rupa's mother had tried so hard to hide. Sonia was confident that no man could ever marry Rupa, but Asbok was made of a different calibre. He lived very much  in the present,  and  readily  accepted  Rupa  for  what she  was,   and   not   for  what  she may  have  been.  The ideal romance was  about  to culminate  in a happy  union  when ...

... the vows of uneasy past echoed and re-echoed louder and louder, till Rupa's  conscience would not allow her to ever again face the man she so deeply loved. In desperation, she began to re-trace her steps towards her Destiny - and the story of Rupa's Destiny is the story of a brief encounter that will be remembered for a long time to come.

 

[from the official press booklet]
 

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