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{{Infobox film
| name = Pagla Kahin Ka
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| director = Shakti Samanta
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| starring = [[Shammi Kapoor]]<br/>[[Asha Parekh]]<br/>[[Helen (actress)|Helen]]<br/>[[Prem Chopra]]
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| music = [[Shankar Jaikishan]]
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| released = 1970
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| country = India
| language = Hindi
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'''''Pagla Kahin Ka''''' (''Such a Fool'') is a [[1970 in film|1970]] Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[romance film]] directed by [[Shakti Samanta]]. It stars Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Helen and Prem Chopra, all of whom had earlier starred in the huge hit [[Teesri Manzil]] (1966). The film is well known for the [[Mohammed Rafi]] and [[Lata Mangeshkar]]'s song "Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Paaoge". The film's music is by [[Shankar Jaikishan]].

== Plot ==
Sujit ([[Shammi Kapoor]]) started having mental problems when he was six years old after visiting his dad, Ajit, at a mental asylum. Thereafter, he kept on getting into trouble, and even ran away from the orphanage. Years later, a musician and singer, Shyam ([[Prem Chopra]]), finds Sujit singing on the roadside, and decides to hire him as a singer in a nightclub. This is where Sujit meets dancer, Jenny ([[Helen (actress)|Helen]]), and both fall in love with each other. When they announce their plans to get married, the news does not augur well with the nightclub's owner, Max. An argument ensues, Max draws a gun, and Shyam ends up killing Max. Sujit decides to take the blame and is arrested by the police. In order to escape the gallows, he feigns insanity, and is ordered to be admitted to a mental asylum until he recovers. In the asylum, he is placed under the compassionate care of Dr. Shalini ([[Asha Parekh]]) and about a year later is discharged. He returns to the nightclub just in time for Jenny's and Shyam's engagement party. Baffled, confused and angered at this betrayal, he really does go insane and ends up being re-admitted in the very same asylum. But this time his chances of recovery are very slim as he has retreated deep into the inner recesses of his mind - from where he may never return. Even though [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] does her usual cabaret dance number in this film, it still contains one of her most dramatic roles, as she plays a rape victim.<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/dec/24dinesh.htm rediff.com, Movies: Helen: Bollywood's first sophisticated seductress]</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Shammi Kapoor]] as Sujit
* [[Asha Parekh]] as Dr. Shalini
* [[Prem Chopra]] as Shyam
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] as Jenny
* [[Murad (actor)|Murad]] as Judge
* [[Manmohan Krishna]] as Head of the Mental Hospital
* [[K. N. Singh]] as Nightclub Owner (as Max)
* Sunder as Inmate
* [[Sajjan (actor)|Sajjan]] as Inmate (as Ramu Dada)
* [[Viju Khote]]
* [[Brahm Bhardwaj]] as Advocate S.K. Mehta (as Brahma Bhardwaj)
* [[Birbal (actor)|Birbal]] as Inmate - Maharaja
* [[Mohan Choti]] as Inmate
* [[Polson (actor)|Polson]] as Inmate

==Soundtrack==
{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Song !! Singer
|-
| 1
| "Log Kahen Mujhe Pagla Kahin Ka"
| [[Mohammed Rafi]]
|-
| 2
| "Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Paaoge" (Male)
| Mohammed Rafi
|-
| 3
| "Na Ro Tu Yahan Aise Ae Mere Dil"
| Mohammed Rafi
|-
| 4
| "Meri Bhains Ko Danda Kyun Maara"
| [[Manna Dey]]
|-
| 5
| "Tum Mujhe Yu Bhula Na Paaoge (Female)"
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|-
| 6
| "Tum Mujhe Yu Bhula Na Paaoge" (Short)
| Lata Mangeshkar
|-
| 7
| "Suno Zindagi Gaati Hai"
| [[Asha Bhosle]]
|-
|}

==Crew==
* Produced by Ajit Chakraborty
* Original Music by
* [[Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal]] (as Jaikishan)
* [[Shankarsinh Raghuvanshi]] (as Shankar)
* Cinematography by [[V. Gopi Krishna]]
* Film Editing by [[Govind Dalwadi]]
* Art Direction by [[Shanti Dass]]
* Costume Design by Sudha Parekh, Leena Shah
* Makeup Department
* Dinu Indulkar .... key makeup artist
* Kasinath More .... makeup department head
* Perin Pereira .... hair stylist
* Khurshid Ramwala .... hair stylist
* Bhikubhai Rathod .... assistant makeup artist
* Ram Tipnis .... key makeup artist
* Production Management
* A.K. Tiwari .... production manager
* Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
* Harish Khatri .... assistant director
* Dinesh Saxena .... assistant director
* Art Department
* Madhukar S. Shinde .... assistant art director
* Dilip Singh .... assistant art director
* Gurudayal Singh .... assistant art director
*
* Camera and Electrical Department
* R.M. Bhalla .... assistant camera
* N.G. Rao .... assistant camera
* V. Subbarao .... assistant camera
*
* Costume and Wardrobe Department
* Chelaram .... costumes
* Mani J. Rabadi .... costumes
*
* Editorial Department
* Bijoy Chowdhary .... assistant editor
* M.T. Gupte .... assistant editor
*
* Music Department
* [[Asha Bhosle]] .... playback singer
* [[S. H. Bihari]] .... lyrics
* [[Manna Dey]] .... playback singer
* [[Sebastian D'Souza]] .... assistant to composer
* [[Hasrat Jaipuri]] .... lyrics
* [[Lata Mangeshkar]] .... playback singer
* [[Mohammed Rafi]] .... playback singer: "Tum Mujhe yun Bhula Na Paoge"
* [[Brahmanand Sharma]] .... background music
* [[Dattaram Wadkar]] .... assistant to composer
*
* Other crew
* Herman Benjamin .... dances
* N.C. Nanda .... production controller

==Reception==
''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote, "the film is as bad as one can expect any film with Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh to be".<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19700221&printsec=frontpage&hl=en</ref> The film wasn't a box office hit. Leading lady [[Asha Parekh]] said audiences didn't want to see [[Shammi Kapoor]] play a madman. Nevertheless, the film remains one of her personal favorites, calling it a "beautiful film."<ref>[http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3077619,prtpage-1.cms Asha Parekh: "No hero made passes at me… My male co-stars were intimidated by me!"- Interviews-News & Gossip-Indiatimes - Movies] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113142026/http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3077619,prtpage-1.cms |date=13 January 2009 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268519/ Pagla Kahin Ka (1970)]</ref> In her 2017 memoir "The Hit Girl", she wrote that [[Shammi Kapoor]] loved the song "Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Paaoge" so much that in his later years, he used it as a ringtone for his cellphone.<ref>Parekh, Asha and Mohammed, Khalid. ''The Hit Girl''. New Delhi: Om Books International (2017), p. 117</ref>
Director [[Shakti Samanta]] liked Parekh's performance so much that he cast her again in [[Kati Patang]] (1970), which became a hit, and which won her [[Filmfare Best Actress Award]]. Her co-star [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] also holds a special place in her heart for the film, since she called it a "very nice film."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131217153946/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-15/news-interviews/29888894_1_shammi-kapoor-neela-devi-teesri-manzil/2 ]</ref> Actor [[Kamal Haasan]] wanted to star in the Tamil remake and asked [[Mani Ratnam]] to direct it, but Ratnam wasn't interested.<ref>{{cite book|author=Baradwaj Rangan|author-link=Baradwaj Rangan| title=Conversations with Mani Ratnam |location=India | publisher=Penguin Books |year=2012|page=44}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0268519}}

[[Category:1970 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Shankar Jaikishan]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Shakti Samanta]]
[[Category:Mental illness in films]]

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