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Raja Jani
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Wikipedia article
'Raja Jani' is a 1972 Bollywood film, produced by Madan Mohla, directed by Mohan Segal, and written by S. Ali Raza. The film stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Premnath, Prem Chopra, Johnny Walker, Durga Khote, Sajjan, Helen and Bindu. The music is by LaxmikantPyarelal. It was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year. It was loosely based on the 1956 American movie 'Anastasia'. It was remade in Tamil in 1983 as 'Adutha Varisu'.
Plot
Raj Kumar Singh "Raja"(Dharmendra) who tries to find a girl who would be a perfect impostor to take the place of the missing princess Ratna. During an assassination of her parents she disappeared, and during the last ten years her grandmother, queen Rajmata(Durga Khote) has been looking for her. Raja finds a street dancer named Shanno(Hema Malini), and finally, after extensive training of teaching the etiquettes so they can disguise and present her as the long lost princess so they can get the reward money from finding her, she enters the house as the long awaited princess. What he does not know is something that may spoil his intentions to get the money through her, and it is that Shanno turns out to be the real princess her grandmother was searching for.
Cast
*Dharmendra as Raj Kumar Singh "Raja"
*Hema Malini as Ratna / Shanno
*Premnath as Diwan Gajendra Singh
*Prem Chopra as Pratap Bahadur Singh
*Johnny Walker as Imartilal
*Durga Khote as Rajmata
*Sajjan as Khairati
*Jankidas as Dr. Nigam
*C. S. Dubey as Bagla Seth's Servant
*Manmohan as Latpat Seth
*Helen as Item Dancer (Guest Appearance)
*Suresh
*Bindu as Raja's Ex-Girlfriend (Guest Appearance)
Soundtrack
The music composed by LaxmikantPyarelal.
References
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