What is the name of the debut movie of Vijayta Pandit, the younger sister of a Filmfare Award winning singer and actor who starred in Phaansi alongside Shashi Kapoor?
Phaansi Phaansi is a 1978 Hindi movie directed by Harmesh Malhotra. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit, Pran and Ranjeet. The film's music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Actor Asrani has also played a role as a Muslim guy in the movie who was a closed friend to Shashi Kapoor and actor Iftikar played role as father to Shahsi Kapoor. Unfortunately, both of them was hanged to death by the villain (Ranjeet). Thumbs up for Ranjeet of acting the role of Chief of Daku in the movie.The movie was declared hits due to its story line, drama, songs and good action. A worth to watch movie of the 1970s.
Meena Shorey Meena Shorey (1921–1989) was an Indian cinema and later Pakistani cinema actress, who worked in Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi films. Credited in films by her mononym, Meena, her real name was Khurshid Jehan. She started her acting career playing a character role, as Ambhi, Raja of Taxila's sister in Sohrab Modi's "Sikandar" (1941). Married to her third husband, Roop K. Shorey, by the mid-1940s, she found fame when she acted in her husband's film "Ek Thi Ladki" (1949), opposite actor Motilal. The story was written by I. S. Johar, who also starred in the film. The "foot-tapping" music composed by Vinod became a "huge hit", with Meena becoming an "icon" for the "new liberated" young women. Meena was acclaimed as the "Lara Lappa Girl", from the song of same title in the film. She was one of the first women to be recognised in Indian cinema as a "comedienne of calibre".