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	==Cast==		==Cast==
			* [[Mehtab (actress)\|Miss Mehtab]] as Chitralekha
	* Miss Mehtab as Chitralekha
	* Nandrekar as Samant Bijgupt		* Nandrekar as Samant Bijgupt
	* A.S. Gyani as Kumargiri		* A.S. Gyani as Kumargiri
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	* Ganpatrai Premi as Mrityunjay		* Ganpatrai Premi as Mrityunjay
	* [[Bharat Bhushan]]		* [[Bharat Bhushan]]

			==Soundtrack==
			The music of the film was composed by [[Ustad Jhande Khan]].

	==References==		==References==

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{{Infobox film
| name = Chitralekha
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| director = [[Kidar Sharma]]
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| based_on = {{based on| [[Chitralekha (novel)|Chitralekha]] |[[Bhagwati Charan Verma]]}}
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| starring = [[Mehtab (actress)|Mehtab]]<br>Nandrekar<br>A. S. Gyani
| music = Ustad Jhande Khan
| cinematography = G. K. Mehta
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| released = 1941
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| country = India
| language = Hindi
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'''''Chitralekha''''' is a 1941 Indian [[Hindi]]-language film, directed by [[Kidar Sharma]] and based on the 1934 Hindi novel [[Chitralekha (novel)|of the same name]] by [[Bhagwati Charan Verma]]. Its music is by noted classical musician Ustad Jhande Khan, giving popular songs like "Sun sun Neelkamal Muskaye," "Saiyyan Saware Bhaye Baware," and "Tum Jao Bde Bhagwan Bane, Insaan Bano."<ref>[[#Gu|Gulzar, p. 282]]</ref>

It was the second-highest grossing Indian film of 1941.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top Earners 1941|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=146&catName=MTk1MQ==|publisher=Box Office India|accessdate=26 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421002538/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=146&catName=MTk1MQ==|archive-date=21 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Khan used classical [[Ragas]] like [[Bhairavi (Hindustani)|Bhairavi]] and [[Asavari]] to the score, making it influential for classical based Hindi film songs.<ref>[[#Bo|, p. 270]]</ref> This was the debut of actor [[Bharat Bhushan]], who later achieved fame with ''[[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]]'' (1952).<ref>[[#Gu|Gulzar, p. 533]]</ref> Sharma cast [[Mehtab (actress)|Mehtab]] as he felt she was "perfect" for the role of Chitralekha. Mehtab achieved both fame and notoriety with the famous bathing scene in the film.<ref name="Sharma2002">{{cite book|author=Kidar Sharma|title=The one and lonely Kidar Sharma, (an anecdotal autobiography)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jP9kAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Bluejay Books|isbn=978-81-87075-96-7|page=178}}</ref>

It was remade by Sharma in 1964, also titled ''[[Chitralekha (1964 film)|Chitralekha]]'', starring [[Meena Kumari]] and [[Ashok Kumar]].<ref>{{IMDb title|0138360|Chitralekha}}</ref>

==Cast==

* Miss Mehtab as Chitralekha
* Nandrekar as Samant Bijgupt
* A.S. Gyani as Kumargiri
* Rajendra
* Monica Desai as Yashodhara
* Ram Dulari
* [[Leela Mishra]]
* Ganpatrai Premi as Mrityunjay
* [[Bharat Bhushan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

;Bibliography
* {{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema|author=Gulzar |authorlink=Gulzar |author2=Govind Nihalani |author3=Saibal Chatterjee |publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=2003|isbn=8179910660 |page=335 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT639 |ref=Gu }}
* {{cite book |title=Behind the curtain: making music in Mumbai's film studios|author=Gregory D. Booth|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0195327649 |url=https://archive.org/details/behindcurtainmak00boot|url-access=registration|ref=Bo }}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0279731|title=Chitralekha}}

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