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Journey Beyond Three Seas is a film of genre Adventure directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas released in USA on 9 april 1960 with Nargis
Journey Beyond Three Seas (1957)
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Add to a movie listJourney Beyond Three Seas (Hindi: Pardesi; Russian: Хождение за три моря (Khozhdenie za tri morya)) is a 1957 Indian-Soviet popular film, jointly directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin. It was made in two version, 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 film co-production, between state-owned, 'Mosfilm Studio' and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's, 'Naya Sansar International' production house.
Film has music by Anil Biswas, who have some memorable hits like, Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re by Meena Kapoor, Na Dir Dim by Lata Mangeshkar and danced to by Padmini.
Synopsis
The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).Actors
Nargis
(Champa)
Padmini Ramachandran
(Court Dancer Lakshmi)
Balraj Sahni
(Sakaram)
Bharat Bhushan
Prithviraj Kapoor
(Grand Vizier Mahmud Gavan)
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