Half Ticket (1962 film)

Half Ticket
Film poster
Directed byKalidas
Written bySurid Kar
Ramesh Pant
Produced byBombay Talkies
StarringMadhubala
Kishore Kumar
Pran
Edited byRaj Talwar
Music bySalil Chowdhury
Release date
  • 19 October 1962 (19 October 1962)
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Running time
168 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box officeest. 1 crore (est. 119 crore as of 2011)[2]

Half Ticket is a 1962 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Kalidas and produced by Bombay Talkies. Starring Madhubala, Kishore Kumar and Pran, the film revolves around Vijay, a good-for-nothing young man who decides to leave his house when his father forces him to get married.

Half Ticket is one of the last films to star Madhubala, as well as her final collaboration with her husband Kishore Kumar. It was a critical and commercial success and has become a cult film since its release. In 2020, The Indian Express listed the film in its "10 Bollywood comedies to watch in your lifetime".[3]

  1. ^ "Half Ticket - Lifetime Box Office Collection, Budget, Reviews, Cast, etc". BOTY. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Worth Their Weight In Gold! | Box Office India : India's premier film trade magazine | Bollywood news, reviews, interviews, box office collection". 3 November 2011. Archived from the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Seriously Funny: 10 Bollywood comedies to watch in your lifetime". The Indian Express. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2020.

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