Professor is a 1962 Hindi musical comedy film produced by F. C. Mehra and directed by Lekh Tandon. The film stars Shammi Kapoor, Kalpana, Bela Bose, Lalita Pawar, Tun Tun and Iftekhar. It was a box office super hit.
The film was remade in Tamil as Nadigan (1990), in Telugu twice as Bhale Mastaru (1969), Peddinti Alludu (1991), and in Kannada as Gopi Krishna. Red Chillies Entertainment currently owns the film rights.
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Plot
Sita Devi Verma, established in Darjeeling is the guardian to two young women (Nina and Rita) and two school children (Bunty and Munnu) in her care. She is a strict guardian and the four often disobey her and create mischief behind her back. She is looking for a professor as a tutor, her only condition being that he should be above 50 years of age. Pritam Khanna, a young college graduate in dire need of work, applies for the job and get dejected after being rejected due to his age. The same day, he discovers his mother (Pratima Devi) has an advanced stage of tuberculosis and needs hospitalization. Due to financial difficulties, he disguises himself as an older professor and takes the job.
The women do not want a professor and try every trick in the book to defame the professor in the eyes of Sita Devi. Pritam soon catches on and defeats them at their own game. He falls in love with Nina and woos her as a young man in the city. Chaos ensues when Sita Devi develops feelings towards old Prof. Khanna and Pritam has to romance the two ladies in different disguises at the same time.
Cast
Shammi Kapoor as Professor Pritam Khanna
Kalpana as Neena
Randhir (actor) as Professor sahab
Salim Khan as Ramesh Verma
Lalita Pawar...Sita Devi Verma
Parveen Choudhary...Rita Verma
Pratima Devi as Pritam mom
Rashid Khan...Hanuman Singh
Bela Bose...Hanuman Singh's wife
Tun Tun as Phool Rani
Amol Sen as Dwarf driver Tun Tun Lover,boyfriend
Iftekhar...Artist
Bir Sakuja as Ramesh's father
Moolchand as Jeweller
Ratan Gaurang as Chang Hotel water
Maqsood...Hotel waiter
Ratnamala as Sita Devi's friend from tribal village
Uma Khosla as Malti (Ramesh sister)
Jugal Kishore as tailor master
Gopal
M.A. Latif as Doctor treating Rita Verma
Soundtrack
All the songs were composed by Shankar–Jaikishan, assisted by Dattaram Wadkar.
Awards and nominations
Won: Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Shankar Jaikishan
Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Shammi Kapoor
Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress - Lalita Pawar
Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist - Hasrat Jaipuri for the song "Aai Gulbadan"
Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer - Mohammed Rafi for the song "Aye Gulbadan"