Kati Patang

Kati Patang is an 1970 Indian Hindi movie produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. It became a box office success. It stars Asha Parekh as a woman pretending to be a widow, and her ensuing trials and tribulations. Film’s story was written by Gulshan Nanda, based on the novel I Married a Dead Man, by Cornell Woolrich. Hollywood had already filmed the novel once before under the title No Man of Her Own (1950) with Barbara Stanwyck. It would be remade in French as J’ai épousé une ombre (I Married a Shadow) (1983), and by Hollywood again as Mrs. Winterbourne (1996).

The movie also stars Nasir Hussain, Bindu, Prem Chopra and Rajesh Khanna. The film was the second in a string of nine movies in which Samanta and Khanna collaborated.

Cast

• Asha Parekh as Madhavi ‘Madhu’ / Poonam
• Rajesh Khanna as Kamal Sinha
• Prem Chopra as Kailash
• Bindu as Shabnam ‘Shaboo’
• Nasir Hussain as Diwan Dinanath
• Sulochana Latkar as Mrs. Dinanath
• Satyen Kappu as Dr. Kashinath

Box office
The film was a “hit” and the sixth highest earning Bollywood film of 1970, and together with Aradhana (1969), and Amar Prem (1972), Samata went on to have a hattrick of hits with Rajesh Khanna.