---
title: 'Chitchor (1976)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Basu Chatterjee'
released: '1976-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 105
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'India'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/chitchor-1976'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157460/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Chitchor (1976)

1976 · 105 min · Drama, Music, Romance · India

Original title: चितचोर

## Synopsis

Chitchor is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film, written and directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It is based on a Bengali story, Chittachakor by Subodh Ghosh. K. J. Yesudas and Master Raju won the National Film Awards 1976 for Best Male Playback Singer and Best Child Artist respectively. The film was remade in Telugu as Ammayi Manasu, in Malayalam as Minda Poochakku Kalyanam and in Tamil as Ullam Kavarntha Kalvan. It was also an inspiration for the 1997 Bengali film Sedin Chaitramas and the 2003 film Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Basu Chatterjee](https://cinepixo.com/people/basu-chatterjee)
- **Screenplay:** [Basu Chatterjee](https://cinepixo.com/people/basu-chatterjee)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ravindra Jain](https://cinepixo.com/people/ravindra-jain)
- **Producer:** [Tarachand Barjatya](https://cinepixo.com/people/tarachand-barjatya)
- **Director of Photography:** [K. K. Mahajan](https://cinepixo.com/people/k-k-mahajan)

## Cast

- [Amol Palekar](https://cinepixo.com/people/amol-palekar)
- [Zarina Wahab](https://cinepixo.com/people/zarina-wahab)

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