Sachaa Jhutha
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| सच्चा झूठा | |
| Directed by | Manmohan Desai |
| Produced by | Vinod Doshi |
| Written by | Jeevanprabha M. Desai Prayag Raj |
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Rajesh Khanna Mumtaz Vinod Khanna |
| Music by | Kalyanji-Anandji |
| Cinematography | Peter Pereira |
| Edited by | Kamlakar Karkhanis |
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| Distributed by | Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd |
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Release date
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1970 |
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Running time
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144 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Sachaa Jhutha (Hindi: सच्चा झूठा, English: "Honest Liar") is a 1970 Indian Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai. The movie was a box-office blockbuster. The movie stars Rajesh Khanna as a simple villager, who has a look alike who is a crook. It also stars Mumtaz and Vinod Khanna. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji. The film was the second highest grossing of the year and declared a Super Hit. The performance of Rajesh Khanna was critically acclaimed and he even won the Filmfare Best Actor Award. The film contains the song "Karle Pyar Karle Aankhen Char", which was used in the film Om Shanti Om, where only Rajesh Khanna was taken out and rest including Mumtaaz and background was removed from the frames. The film was written by Desai's wife Jeevanprabha.The editing was by Kamlakar Kamkhanis. This film is counted among the 17 consecutive hit films Rajesh Khanna between 1969 and 1971, by adding the two hero films Marayada and Andaz to the 15 consecutive solo hits he gave from 1969 to 1971.
Bhola (Rajesh Khanna) is an innocent band musician who lives with his physically challenged sister Belu in a village. He needs more money for his sister's marriage and he sets off to Bombay to earn. To make his sister not to feel for his departure he sings a song on the way towards railway station. On the other hand Bombay city Police department is shocked by series of diamond thefts which lead no clue. But Inspector Pradhan(Vinod Khanna) suspects the thief to be Ranjith (Rajesh Khanna) who is actually a wealthy diamond businessman on the accounts that whenever a theft occurs he is present there. But he has no evidence and searches for that. He creates a plan with Rita (Mumtaz) to attract Ranjith to know his secret plans. Bhola arrives the city and he is called as Ranjith in a party. Ranjith who arrives the party surprised to see Bhola as he looks identical as him. He immediately plots for a plan. He takes Bhola to his place and reveals himself. He convinces Bhola to act like Ranjith in front of the society as he is suffering from cancer and requires a treatment. Until his return from treatment Bhola has to make believe everybody that he is Ranjith. Actually he makes him as Ranjith so that he can continue with his diamond smuggling meanwhile there will not be any evidence as Bhola is going to be Ranjith everywhere. But he did not reveal the reason to him. He also promises that he would give money for his sister's marriage. Innocent Bhola believes him and agrees to the plan .
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