''Chand Par Chadayee'' ( en, Trip to Moon, italic=yes) is a 1967 Indian

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...

-language

science fiction film Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstell ...

produced and directed by T. P. Sundaram. The film stars

Dara Singh Dara Singh Randhawa (born Deedar Singh Randhawa; 19 November 1928 – 12 July 2012) was an Indian professional wrestler, actor, director and politician. He started acting in 1952 and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya S ...

, Anwar Hussain, Bhagwan, G. Ratna and

Padma Khanna Padma Khanna is an Indian actress, dancer and director. She appeared mainly in Hindi and Bhojpuri films in the 1970s and 1980s. She is most remembered for her role in the film '' Saudagar'' with Amitabh Bachchan and also as Queen Kaikeyi in Rama ...

Plot

After landing on the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width ...

, the astronaut Anand and his associate Bhagu face off against many warriors and monsters from another planet.

Cast

as Anand * Anwar Hussain as Barahatu * Bhagwan as Bhagu * G. Ratna as Shimoga *

as Simi

Production

''Chand Par Chadayee'' was directed by T. P. Sundaram, who also produced it under Cauvery Productions. Cinematography was handled by M. Krishnasamy, and the editing by Joshi and M. S. Parthasarathy. The writer of the film is not credited onscreen, while Balakrishna Monj wrote the dialogues.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by

Usha Khanna Usha Khanna (born 7 October 1941) is an Indian music director in Hindi cinema. She is the third female music director to enter the Hindi film industry, after Jaddan Bai and Saraswati Devi and is one of the most commercially successful music d ...

, while S. H. Bihari and Asad Bhopali were lyricists.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0061463 1960s Hindi-language films 1960s science fiction films Films about astronauts Indian science fiction films Mars in film Films set on the moon Hindi-language science fiction films