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| name = Karwat
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| director = B. D. Vedi
| producer = [[B. R. Chopra]]
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| starring = {{ubl|[[Geeta Nizami]]|Satish}}
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| released = {{Film date|1949}}
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'''''Karwat''''' is a 1949 Indian [[Hindi]]-language film directed by B. D. Vedi and starring [[Geeta Nizami]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Selvan |first=M. Ponnein |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ENSoz8OPpwcC |title=Legends of Indian Silver Screen: The Winners of Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992-2014) |date=2015 |publisher=Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India |isbn=978-81-230-2039-6 |pages=59 |language=en}}</ref> It marked the debut of [[B. R. Chopra]] as a film producer, and narrated a story of refugees who arrived in India during the [[Partition of India|Partition]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dwyer |first=Rachel |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=iGr8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT48 |title=Yash Chopra |date=2019-07-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83902-131-2 |pages=38 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Valicha |first=Kishore |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Xx5lAAAAMAAJ |title=Dadamoni: The Authorized Biography of Ashok Kumar |date=1996 |publisher=Viking |isbn=978-0-670-87271-8 |pages=106 |language=en}}</ref> Although the film's direction is officially credited to Vedi, Chopra is also believed to have ghost-directed.<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen1999">{{cite book|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Ashish|last2=Willemen|first2=Paul|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofi0000raja|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=British Film Institute|isbn=9780851706696|pages=78}}</ref>

''Karwat'' was a [[box-office bomb]], which led to Chopra subsequently himself directing his productions.<ref name=":1" /> Two years after ''Karwat'', he established himself as a director with the success of ''[[Afsana (1951 film)|Afsana]]'' (1951).<ref name=":2" />

== Cast ==
* [[Geeta Nizami]]
* Satish
* [[Jeevan (Hindi actor)|Jeevan]]
* Kesari
* Paro
* [[Leela Mishra]]

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack for ''Karwat'' was composed by [[Hansraj Behl]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rangoonwalla |first=Firoze |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=26dZAAAAMAAJ |title=Indian Filmography: Silent & Hindi Films, 1897-1969 |last2=Das |first2=Vishwanath |date=1970 |publisher=J. Udeshi |pages=253 |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=tt0158702}}

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