''Amanat'' is a 1955 Bollywood film directed by Arvind Sen and produced by Bimal Roy starring

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, Pran in lead roles.

Plot

A dying man entrusts his life savings to Purshotam, a stranger he just met, and asks him to promise to take this money to his wife, and son Pradeep, in a remote village in India.

Cast

as Pradeep *

as Meena * Pran as Naresh *

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as Purushottam * Kanhaiyalal as Laxmidas * Asit Sen as Ganesh *

Achala Sachdev Achala Sachdev (3 May 1920 – 30 April 2012) was an Indian actress who appeared in classic films of Hindi language film industry. She was from Peshawar and started her career as a child actor. She later became known for mother and grandmother ...

as Pradeep's Mother

Music

Reception

The film earned a high rating (7.4) at the

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External links

* 1955 films 1950s Hindi-language films Films scored by Salil Chowdhury Indian drama films Indian black-and-white films 1955 drama films {{1950s-Hindi-film-stub