Film

Shehar Aur Sapna

7.019612h

Director: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Year: 1961

The film was based on Abbas's own story, One Thousand Nights on a Bed of Stones, which describes the struggle in the life of pavement dwellers in the backdrop of rapid industrialization.

Top cast

Dilip Raj

Bholaram

Surekha

Radha

Nana Palsikar

uncle Johnny, the violinist

Manmohan Krishna

Deewana, the poet

Anwar Hussain

Anwar, the actor

David Abraham Cheulkar

Pandurang, the wrestler

Asit Sen

Rashid Khan

Jagdish Kamal

Directed by

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

Written by

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas