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'Phandebaaz' is a 1978 Bollywood action comedy romantic film directed by Samir Ganguly. Starring Dharmendra (in double role), Moushumi Chatterjee, Prem Chopra. The actual heroine was Leena Chandavarkar in this movie but producer replaced Moushumi Chatterjee because she was unable to attend the shooting and she was telling to delay. Hema Malini had a guest appearance in one song. The film had commercial success at the box office.

Plot



Rajkumar Kakkar (Dharmendra), a poor young man, visits to city and meets a lookalike rich person named Rana Shantidas (again Dharmendra) and impersonates him. He falls in love with a rich girl named Shanti (Moushumi Chatterjee) and discloses his true identity to her. Her father Diwan Bunny (Prem Chopra) refuses to accept him, but Rajkumar and Shanti both get married. Rana is blackmailed by Diwan, and him and Rajkumar gate swap and exchange places, but Rajkumar finds himself the target of a bloody pot, and will have to fight against all odds to defeat Diwan.

Cast



*Dharmendra as Rajkumar Kakkar/Rana Shantidas (double role)

*Moushumi Chatterjee as Shanti (Rajkumar's wife)

*Prem Chopra as Diwan Bunny (Shanti's Dad)

*Ranjeet as Jaggi Dada

*Bindu as Tony

*Satyendra Kapoor as Hukumat Rai

*Jagdish Raj as Police Inspector

*Kumari Naaz as Princess Ratna

*Krishnakant as Bawji (Restaurant Owner)

*Helen as Club Dancer

*Bhagwan as Film Director

*Tun Tun as Rosie

*Brahmachari as Mohan

*Mac Mohan as Mac

*Hema Malini as Herself (guest appearance in song)

Songs



Music's were given by R. D. Burman and recorded by 'Rajkamal Kamalmandir'. Lyricist was Annad Bakshi. Audiography was done by 'Mohinder Singh'. Some of the music had scored well.

Box office



Film was released on 7 July at (1.5 cr) budget.

Opening day it collected (50,000) and first weekend it collected (13 lk). First week it collected (27 lk) and in india lifetime collection's were (2.1 cr) and overseas gross collections were (US$253.84). Total netgross collections were (4.2 cr) and it was labelled as Semihit.

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