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Shahjehan
1946 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shahjehan is a 1946 Indian Hindi language film. The film was directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar and written by Kamal Amrohi.
It starred K. L. Saigal, Ragini, Kanwar, Nasreen and P. Jairaj.[1][2] The music was composed by Naushad with Majrooh Sultanpuri making his debut as a film song lyricist. Khumar Barabankvi was the other lyricist in this film.[3]
The story is a fictionalized account of an episode during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahan, with the fiction also linking it to the building of the Taj Mahal.
It was the second highest grossing Indian film of 1946.[4]
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Cast
- K. L. Saigal as Suhail[1][5]
- P. Jairaj as Shirazi[1]
- Ragni as Ruhi[1][5]
- Kanwar as Shah Jahan
- Nasreen as Mumtaz
- Mohammed Afzal Rizvi as Jwala Singh
- Sulochana Chatterjee as Janfiza
- Rehman as Ghulam[1][2]
Soundtrack
The music of the film was composed by Naushad.[1]
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