Opera House (1961 film)

Opera House
Directed by	P.L. Santoshi
Produced by	A.A. Nadiadwala
Starring	Ajit B. Saroja Devi K.N. Singh Lalita Pawar
Music by	Chitragupta
Edited by	Dharamvir
Release dates	1961
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Opera House is a 1961 Hindi film produced by A.A. Nadiadwala and directed by P.L. Santoshi. It is a murder mystery film. The film stars Ajit, B. Saroja Devi, K.N. Singh and Lalita Pawar among others.

Plot

Saroj (B. Saroja Devi) lives a poor lifestyle in Nagpur along with her widowed mom, Leela Sharma (Lalita Pawar) and a younger sister, Nanhi. She gets employed as a singer/dancer in Bombay and relocates there. Once there, she meets with Ajit Rai (Ajit), and the couple fall in love. Circumstances compel her to re-locate to Nagpur and seek employment with another dance/drama company run by Chunilal. Ajit decides to follow her to Nagpur, and visits her mom and sister. It is from here he locates the dance/drama company and does meet Saroj - only to find out that she has changed her name to Mary D'Souza. Ajit will eventually discover that Saroj had witnessed the murder of Chunilal and the killer(s) are now out to silence her - and whoever else dares to come in their way...

Cast

Character	Actor
Ajit Rai	Ajit
Saroj Sharma/Mary D'Souza	B. Saroja Devi
Daniel	K.N. Singh
Leela Sharma	Lalita Pawar
Lily	Bela Bose
Peter	Maruti Rao
Mrs. Ranjit Rai	Mumtaz Begum

Soundtrack

Music in the film has been given by Chitragupta and Lyricist is Majrooh Sultanpuri.

#	Title	Singer
1	Dekho mausam kya bahar hai	Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
2	Balma maane na, bairi chup na rahe	Lata Mangeshkar

External links

• Opera House at IMDb