Pardesi (1957 film)

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{{Short description|1957 Indo-Russian film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Pardesi

| image = Journey Beyond Three Seas Indian poster.jpg

| caption = Indian poster

| director = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Vasili Pronin

| producer = Naya Sansar
Mosfilm Studio

| writer = Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Mariya Smirnova

| starring = Oleg Strizhenov
Nargis
Padmini
Prithviraj Kapoor
Balraj Sahni

| music = Anil Biswas

Boris Chaikovsky

| cinematography = Ramchandra
V. V. Nikolaev
Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1957}}

| runtime = 110 min.

| country = India
Soviet Union

| language = Hindi
Russian

}}

Pardesi ({{langx|hi|Pardesi|italics=yes|lit=Foreigner}}; {{langx|ru|Хождение за три моря|Khozhdenie za tri morya|Journey Beyond the Three Seas}}) is a 1957 film jointly directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KP0vAAAAMAAJ |chapter=Pardesi fourth Ind-Soviet co-production |title=The Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema |first=Hameeduddin |last=Mahmood |publisher=Affiliated East-West Press |year=1974 |pages=17, 84}}{{Cite news|last=Thompson|first=Howard|date=1960-04-11|title=Screen: Adventure Story:' Journey Beyond Three Seas' at the Cameo|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/04/11/archives/screen-adventure-story-journey-beyond-three-seas-at-the-cameo.html|access-date=2020-08-08|issn=0362-4331}} It was made in two versions, Hindi and Russian, and is based on the travelogues of Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin, called A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, which is now considered a Russian literary monument.

Made during the high time of Indo-Russian amity, Pardesi is an Indo-Soviet co-production between the state-owned Mosfilm and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's Naya Sansar International production house.

The film has music by Anil Biswas, and had some memorable hits such as Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re, by Meena Kapoor, Na Dir Dim, by Lata Mangeshkar and was danced to by Padmini.{{YouTube|pN-izZCJ_fA|Na dir dim}} The film was in SovColor, though no colour print of the Hindi version is known to survive in India. Only a black and white copy of the Hindi film survives.