Phagun 50 years old

Shanta Dhamle lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with her dad, Shamrao, and mom, Ansuya. She incurs their displeasure when she falls in love and gets married to a poor and overly sensitive writer, Gopal, who moves in with them, and continues to suffer verbal abuse at Shamrao's hands. On the occasion of Holi, while his book 'Agla Kadam' is being published and marketed, he puts some color on a pregnant Shanta's expensive Saree, which upsets her, she humiliates him, and he walks out. He starts writing under the pen name of Santosh, and when Shanta finds out, he changes his name to Vivek, and again to Chitrangh, and does not communicate with her. Four years later, a day before Holi, he has accumulated enough wealth, hundreds of expensive and colorful Sarees, a doll for his daughter,

Credits

Phagun Cast

Name Character
Dharmendra He was 37, now 88 years old as Gopal 'Gopu'
Waheeda Rehman She was 35, now 86 years old as Shanta Bangan / Shamrao Dhamle
Om Prakash He was 53, 78 years old when he died as Dr. M.K. Effendi
V. Gopal as Mental Hospital Inmate
Vijay Arora He was 28, 62 years old when he died as Dr. Suman
Sajjan
Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan She was 25, now 76 years old as Santosh 'Toshi'

Phagun Crew

Name Department
Rajinder Singh Bedi as Director. He was 58 (69) years old when He died Directing
Phagun poster
Phagun (50 years)

  • Release day: Friday, October 12, 1973
  • Runtime: 111 minutes