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Release year: 1971

Storyline

Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following which she leaves the house and befriends a child beggar and start living in a dilapidated house. Due to her kind and good nature she is then called as Naani Maa by youth groups which are led by Shyam and Chhenu. Shyam and Chhenu are rivals of each other and can't see eye to eye, Anandi Devi tries to be peacemaker between them.

Top credits

Directors

Gulzar

Writers

Cast

Meena Kumari — Anandi Devi, Auaji (Aunt)
Vinod Khanna — Shyam
Shatrughan Sinha — Chaino
Sumita Sanyal — Lata

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Did you know

• Danny had heard about Mohan Kumar and stopped outside his bungalow to try his luck. He could find an entry to the bungalow because most of the guards were from Sikkim or Nepal. He had the opportunity to meet Mohan Kumar who had produced and directed several films. He told Mohan Kumar about his ambition to make it as an actor and Mohan Kumar is said to have laughed out aloud. He had pity on Danny and said he could join the guards at his bungalow. Danny couldn't take the insult and took a decision that moment. He saw that there was a piece of land lying vacant next to Mohan Kumar's house and silently swore to himself that he would make it big one day and when he did, he would build his bungalow on that same land next to Mohan Kumar's bungalow...Time passed and Danny made it as a very big, popular and highly paid actor but never forgot his goal. He made sure that no one else bought that land which he had dreams for. He finally bought that land at whatever price was demanded and built "D'Zongrila", the kind of bungalow very few people in Juhu had and he hired any number of Gorkhas and sometimes didn't even know how many men were working in his bungalow.Today, Mohan Kumar's bungalow has been demolished for a multi-storeyed building to come up. Mohan Kumar died last year, but "D'Zongrila" stands in all its glory even though the multimillionaire owner spends most of his time in a tent he has built for himself on one of the highest peaks of Sikkim because he cannot bear the heat and the noise of a city like Mumbai.

• Debut film of Gulzar as director.

• Meena Kumari died few months after the film's release.