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Khoobsurat (1980)

Name: Khoobsurat (1980)
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Released: 1980
Duration: 2 h 6 min 36 s

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Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C. Sippy, Romu N. Sippy
Written by: Gulzar, Ashok Rawat, D.N. Mukherjee, Shanu Banerjee
Screenplay by: D.N. Mukherjee, Shanu Banerjee
Story by: D.N. Mukherjee
Dialogue by: Gulzar
Music by: Rahul Dev Burman
Lyrics by: Gulzar
Singers: Asha Bhosle, Ashok Kumar, Kalyani, Rekhā, Sapan Chakraborty, Usha
Cinematography: Jaywant Pathare
Edited by: Subhash Gupta
Production design: Ajit Banerjee
Cast: Rekhā, Rakesh Roshan, Ashok Kumar, Dina Pathak

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A household run on a rigid timetable by its matriarch, and the young woman who marries into it and takes it apart. Rekha leads and won the Filmfare award for Best Actress. The Internet Archive copy was uploaded with its format details disguised, so playback is withheld here; the entry stays listed and the Archive's own page remains reachable.

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Remade as

Swargam (1981, Telugu) — not in this catalogue yet
Remade in Telugu as Swargam, in Tamil as Lakshmi Vandhachu and in Malayalam as Vannu Kandu Keezhadakki. None is held.

Taken up again in

Gol Maal — not in this catalogue yet
The previous year's comedy.
Piya Baawri — not in this catalogue yet
A song from this film.
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023) — not in this catalogue yet
Karan Johar's 2023 film drew heavily on it, and the 2014 Khoobsurat was loosely based on it - a household governed by written rules and somebody who arrives and will not keep them. Neither is held.
Sun Sun Sun Didi — not in this catalogue yet
A song from this film.

The same people, elsewhere

Same director and script writer: Aashirwad (1968)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics and the dialogue of them; Ajit Banerjee designed them - 12 years apart.
Same director and photographer: Abhimaan (1973)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; Jaywant Pathare photographed them; Ajit Banerjee designed them.
Same director and script writer: Anand (1971)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics and the dialogue of them; D.N. Mukherjee wrote the screenplay of them.
Same director and script writer: Anupama (1966)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; D.N. Mukherjee wrote the screenplay of them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them - 14 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Bawarchi (1972)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote the dialogue of them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same director and script writer: Bemisal (1982)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; R. D. Burman wrote the music of them; D.N. Mukherjee wrote them.
Same director and script writer: Chhaya (1961)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; D.N. Mukherjee wrote them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them - 19 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Chupke Chupke (1975)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same music director and lyricist: Ghar (1978)
Rahul Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics of them.
Same director and music director: Gol Maal (1979)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directing and N. C. Sippy producing, a year apart - and Rekha, whom Mukherjee cast as Gol Maal's heroine and then replaced because the film belonged to its hero. She appears in Gol Maal as herself; the next year he gave her Khubsoorat and she won the Filmfare for Best Actress.
Same director and script writer: Guddi (1971)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Gulzar wrote the lyrics and the dialogue of them; D.N. Mukherjee wrote the screenplay of them.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Filmfare for Best Film, and the method at its clearest - the tyrant of the household is given an argument and a nomination rather than being made ridiculous.
Same director and music director: Jurmana (1979)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; Rahul Dev Burman wrote the music of them; Jaywant Pathare photographed them.
Same director and photographer: Mili (1975)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed and produced both; Jaywant Pathare photographed them; Ajit Banerjee designed them.
Same director and producer: Musafir (1957)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee's first film and the one that won him the Filmfare for Best Film, twenty-three years apart.
Same director and script writer: Namak Haraam (1973)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed both; Rahul Dev Burman wrote the music of them; D.N. Mukherjee wrote the screenplay of them.
Same music director and producer: Padosan (1968)
N. C. Sippy produced both.
Rekha
Rekha's Filmfare for Best Actress - Manju, who will not keep the rules of a household that runs on them, in a film that takes the rule-maker seriously enough to have her nominated too.
Same singer: Yakeen (1969)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut Yakeen ten years into his own career as a director. Khubsoorat, eleven years later, won him the Filmfare for Best Film.

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