''Mayurpankh'' is a 1954 Indian film directed by

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. It was screened in the

1954 Cannes Film Festival The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held from 25 March to 9 April 1954. With Jean Cocteau as President of the Jury, the Grand Prix went to the '' Gate of Hell'' by Teinosuke Kinugasa. The festival opened with '' Le Grand Jeu'' by Robert Siodmak. This ...

, where it was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival. The choreography of the

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dance in it was by Shirin Vajifdar, a pioneering Parsi dancer. The film is in colour.

Plot

The film is in part narration by the protagonist and part dialogue. Famous British author Joan Davis goes to India with her boyfriend and encounters Ranjit Singh, a game hunter, in the jungles of India. They fall in love but Joan discovers that Ranjit is married. They meet again in Jaipur at Ranjit's palace, during Ranjit's sister's wedding and Joan meets his wife Shanti. They immediately start liking each other. Ranjit's father is a mining baron and Joan's boyfriend a mining engineer. Both of them strike a deal and Ranjit has to go to England with them. Ranjit's heart wavers and he is undecided as to which love to follow, but he eventually decides.

Cast

as Ranjit Singh * Sumitra Devi as Shanti * Odette Ferguson as Joan Davis * Reginald Jackson as William Griffith *

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(as Janki Dass) *

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* Ramesh Gupta * Nirdoshi * Abbas *

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* Moni Chatterjee * Shyamlal (as Shyam) *

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* Roshan Vajifdar * Kurshid Vijifdar

Soundtrack

Music was composed by

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, lyrics written by Shailendra &

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References

External links

* {{Kishore Sahu 1954 films 1950s Hindi-language films Films directed by Kishore Sahu Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan