Baap Beti

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{{infobox film

| name = Baap Beti

| director = Bimal Roy

| producer = Gopi Rohra

| starring = Nalini Jaiwant
Asha Parekh
Nazir Hussain

| music = Roshan

| studio = Bhagyalaxmi Chitra Mandir

| released = {{Film date|1954}}

}}

Baap Beti is a 1954 Indian Hindi film directed by Bimal Roy. The film was produced by Gopi Rohra and stars Nalini Jaiwant, as well as Asha Parekh as a child artist.{{Cite book |last=Joshi |first=Sumit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHQWCgAAQBAJ&dq=Baap+Beti&pg=PT55 |title=Bollywood Through Ages |publisher=Best Book Reads |isbn=978-1-311-67669-6 }}

Production

Baap Beti is the only film by Roy to be adapted from a Western literary work, namely Maupassant "Simon's Papa".{{Cite book |last=Chatterji |first=Shoma A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxtBDwAAQBAJ&dq=Baap+Beti&pg=PT28 |title=The Cinema of Bimal Roy: An ′Outsider′ Within |date=2017-06-30 |publisher=SAGE Publishing India |isbn=978-93-86062-87-1 }}

Release

The film was a "debacle".{{Cite book |last=Bhattacharya |first=Rinki Roy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tq4aVRUoDcC&dq=Baap+Beti&pg=PT22 |title=Bimal Roy: The Man who spoke in pictures |date=2009-07-15 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-81-8475-818-4 }}

Songs

  1. "Duniya Bananewale Ramoji" - Lata Mangeshkar
  2. "Koyal Bole Ku Papiha Bole Pi" - Lata Mangeshkar
  3. "Le Chal Ri Nindiya Le Chal Hame Tu Chanda" - Lata Mangeshkar
  4. "Andhere Se Ujale Ki Taraf Le Ja Hame" - Lata Mangeshkar

References

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