Rattan (film)
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| Directed by | M. Sadiq |
| Written by | R.S. Choudhury, D. N. Madhok |
| Starring | Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Banu |
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Release date
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1944 |
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Running time
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118 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Rattan or Ratan (Hindi: रतन) is a 1944 Indian Bollywood film starring Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan and Amir Bano. It was a highly successful movie of 1944. The film is noted as the film which made Naushad one of the top contributors to music in Indian films and enabled him to demand a fee of Rs 25,000 a film.The heroine of the movie Swaran Lata had said in a live interview with the Pakistan Television years later that the tunes of the songs of Rattan were set by the lyricist D. N. Madhok himself.
Abdul Rashid Kardar production spent 75,000 rupees in 1944 to make ‘Rattan’. The music by Naushad Ali was such a phenomenal hit that the company earned Rs 3 lacs as royalty from Gramophone sales in the first year.
The film had music by Naushad, with lyrics by the renowned poet of the 1940s D. N. Madhok
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