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{{Infobox film
| name = Purab Aur Paschim
| image = Purab Aur Paschim poster.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Manoj Kumar]]
| producer = [[Manoj Kumar]]
| writer = Shashi Goswami [[Manoj Kumar]]
| starring = [[Ashok Kumar]] [[Saira Banu]] [[Manoj Kumar]] [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] [[Nirupa Roy]] [[Prem Chopra]] [[Vinod Khanna]]
| music = [[Kalyanji-Anandji]]
| cinematography = [[V.N. Reddy]]
| editing = B.S. Glaad
| studio = Vishal International Productions
| distributor = [[Ultra Distributors]]
| released = 1970
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget =
}}
'''''Purab Aur Paschim''''' ({{trans|''East and West''}}) is a 1970 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]]. The movie was produced and directed by [[Manoj Kumar]], and it stars Manoj Kumar, [[Saira Banu]], [[Ashok Kumar]], [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] and [[Prem Chopra]] in the lead roles. The music is by [[Kalyanji Anandji]]. The 2007 film ''[[Namastey London]]'' is inspired from this film. This was the second film by Manoj Kumar where he stars as Bharat (first being ''[[Upkar]]'') and his fourth film on patriotism (''[[Shaheed (1965 film)|Shaheed]]'' was his first, to be followed by ''[[Roti Kapda Aur Makaan]]'' and ''[[Kranti]]''.)

== Synopsis ==
In 1942 British India, Harnam ([[Pran (actor)|Pran]]) betrays a freedom fighter, and as a result is rewarded, but the freedom fighter is killed, leaving his wife, Ganga ([[Kamini Kaushal]]) and family devastated and destitute. Years later, after the Indian Independence in 1947, the freedom fighter's son, Bharat ([[Manoj Kumar]]), has grown up and goes to [[London]] for higher studies. On his arrival in Britain, He meets his father's college friend, Sharma ([[Madan Puri]]) with his westernized wife, Rita (Shammi) and daughter, Preeti ([[Saira Banu]]) and the hippie son, Shankar ([[Rajendra Nath]]).
Preeti has long blonde hair, wears mini-dresses, smokes and drinks and has no idea of Indian values till she meets Bharat. He is, of course, shocked to see that many Indians in London are ashamed of their roots and even changed their names to sound Western. Or others who long for their country, but stay in the UK for economic reasons, like Sharma with his stack of [[KL Saigal]] records. He takes it upon himself to try and change their way of thinking, while both Bharat and Preeti fall in love with each other. Later on, with his mother's and Guruji ([[Ashok Kumar]])'s approval, he promised to marry Preeti.

Preeti is impressed by Bharat's idealism and wants to marry him, but doesn't want to live in India. Bharat wants her to come to India and see what it's like before she rejects it. The purity of India redeems her and she gives up smoking, drinking and minis to adopt the traditional lifestyle.

== Cast ==
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* [[Manoj Kumar]] as Bharat
* [[Saira Banu]] as Preeti
* [[Ashok Kumar]] as Bharat's Guru
* [[Kamini Kaushal]] as Ganga, Bharat's Mother
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] as Harnam
* [[Prem Chopra]] as Omkar / OP
* [[Nirupa Roy]] as Kaushalya, Harnam's wife
* [[Vinod Khanna]] as Shyamu
* [[Bharathi Vishnuvardhan]] as Gopi
* [[Madan Puri]] as Sharma
* [[Shammi (actress)|Shammi]] as Rita, Sharma's wife
* [[Rajendra Nath]] as Shankar, Preeti's brother
* [[Om Prakash]] as Baba
* [[Manmohan (actor)|Manmohan]] as Manmohan

{{div col end}}

== Release ==

=== Reception ===

''Purab aur Paschim'' received generally positive reviews. [[Deepa Gahlot]] of [[Bollywood Hungama]] wrote: "By linking the story to the freedom struggle, Manoj Kumar was saying that freeing India from British rule is not enough if Indians do not feel proud of their Indianness. Manoj Kumar shot in London at the height of the "hippie" phase and caught both the beauty and ugliness of the English landscape. However, his simplistic view of the West was greed, lust and depravity, while India stood for love, honour and piety. Amazingly, the idea has endured, and in even in Aditya Chopra's cult hit ''Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'', Indian boy (Shah Rukh Khan) does not touch the Indian girl (Kajol), though he claims a chain of foreign girlfriends, and neither does he want to marry her without her father's consent. Then as now, Indian culture is represented with a lot of colour, rituals, song and dance. In ''Namastey London'' (2007), Akshay Kumar sells the same version of India to the London girl (Katrina Kaif) -- and a line in the film pays tribute to the original, when he tells her that if her boyfriend's uncle and their associates want to learn more about India, he'd give her a DVD of ''Purab Aur Paschim'' which she should give to them."<ref name="Deepa">{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/review/13010/index.html|title =Review of Purab aur Paschim from Bollywood Hungama.com|accessdate = 2007-03-21| publisher =[[bollywoodhungama.com]]}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
The music of the film was composed by
[[Kalyanji–Anandji]] and lyrics by [[Indeevar|Indivar]], [[Prem Dhawan]] and [[Santosh Anand]].
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer(s)!! Notes !! Lyricist(s)
|-
| "Dulhan Chali"
| [[Mahendra Kapoor]]
|
| [[Indeevar]]
|-
| "Koi Jab Tumhara Hriday Tod De"
| [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]]
|
| Indeevar
|-
| "Om Jai Jagdish Hare"
| Mahendra Kapoor, Brij Bushan, Shyama Chittar
| Aarti.
| [[Traditional]]
|-
| "Purva Suhani Aayi Re"
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]], Mahendra Kapoor, [[Manhar Udhas]]
|
| [[Santosh Anand]]
|-
|"Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram"
| Mahendra Kapoor, Manhar Udhas
|
| Traditional ([[Tulsidas]])
|-
| "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
| [[Asha Bhosle]], Mahendra Kapoor
| Picturized on [[Saira Banu]] and [[Manoj Kumar]] in a giant puppet show.
| [[Prem Dhawan]]
|-
| "Bharat Ka Rehnewaala"
| Mahendra Kapoor
| In party where [[Madan Puri]] asks Manoj Kumar to sing something about India
| Indeevar

|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0234542|Purab Aur Paschim}}

[[Category:1970 films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Kalyanji Anandji]]
[[Category:Films directed by Manoj Kumar]]