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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Sabse Bada Rupaiya<br />
| image = Sabse Bada Rupaiya 1976.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| director = [[S. Ramanathan (film director)|S. Ramanathan]]<br />
| producer = [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]<br />
| writer = [[Abrar Alvi]] (Screenplay)<br />[[Abrar Alvi]] (Dialogue)<br />Babbanlal Yadav (Dialogue)<br />
| narrator =<br />
| based_on = [[Kasidre Kailasa]] (1971)<br />
| starring = [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]]<br />[[Vinod Mehra]]<br />[[Moushumi Chatterjee]]<br />
| music = [[Basu Manohari]]<br />
| cinematography = Anwar Siraj<br />
| editing = A. Paul Dorai Singam<br />
| distributor =<br />
| released = 31 March 1976<br />
| runtime =<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Sabse Bada Rupaiya''''' ({{trans|Money is the Greatest}}) is a 1976 Indian [[Hindi]]-language film, produced by [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]] and directed by [[S. Ramanathan (film director)|S. Ramanathan]].The film stars [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]], [[Vinod Mehra]], [[Moushumi Chatterjee]], [[Farida Jalal]], [[Asit Sen (actor)|Asit Sen]], [[Agha (actor)|Agha]], [[Keshto Mukherjee]] and Jeevan. The title song ''Sabse Bada Rupaiya'' is inspired by the music to the title song of the Hollywood musical ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' (1933). The song was used again in an [[Abhishek Bachchan]]-starrer ''[[Bluffmaster]]'' (2005) in the opening credits.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071029112315/http://www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk/titlev4.php?ALBUM_ID=944&LABEL_ID=15]</ref> The core plot of the movie is based on the 1971 Kannada movie ''[[Kasidre Kailasa]]''.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]] as Neki Ram<br />
* [[Vinod Mehra]] as Amit Rai<br />
* [[Moushumi Chatterjee]] as Sunita<br />
* [[Farida Jalal]] as Bindiya<br />
* [[Sulochana Latkar]] as Mrs. Rai<br />
* [[Chandrashekhar]] as Doctor<br />
* [[Jeevan (actor)|Jeevan]] as Seth Dhanraj<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Generous and honest to a fault, multi-millionaire Amit Rai is always ready to lend a helping hand to the needy, even his business associates. His employee and close friend, Nekiram, warns him against doing this, but in vain. Then hard times visit him and his family, and he loses all his wealth and money, even his palatial home and items therein are to be auctioned. All the people he had helped, his business associates, etc. even his fiancee, Sunita, abandons him. Penniless, homeless, and with a widowed mother, and an unwed sister, he re-locates near a hill station, to begin life anew and works as labour in an orchard. It is there he finds out that his financial ruin did not take place by chance, but it was a deliberate and deceptive plot to rid him of his riches.<br />
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==Songs==<br />
* "Vada Karo Jaanam" - [[Kishore Kumar]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
* "Bahi Jaiyo Na Raani" - [[Usha Mangeshkar]]<br />
* "Na Biwi Na Bachcha, Na Baap" - Mehmood<br />
* "Dariya Kinare Ek Bungla" (aka dariya kinare ek bungalow) - [[Kishore Kumar]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0420139|Sabse Bada Rupaiya}}<br />
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{{S. Ramanathan}}<br />
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[[Category:1976 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by S. Ramanathan]]<br />
[[Category:Hindi remakes of Kannada films]]<br />
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