Faraar (1955 film)
Faraar, also known as Dev Anand in Goa, is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Phani Majumdar. The film stars Dev Anand and Geeta Bali.
Plot
Set just before the Partition of India, Gora is an idealist who leads a group of revolutionaries. They plan to carry out bomb explosions in important places controlled by the British. One of the revolutionaries, Bipin, betrays them. Bipin is shot and injured in a court trial by Gora, who along with his fellow revolutionaries Ajay and Bipin's wife Anjali, flee to Goa by sea. While the trio are on the run, Gora suffers a bullet injury and recuperates in a hospital headed by Dr. Pillay, a former revolutionary who has settled in Goa. Meenakshi, a nurse who works there, offers to help Gora by masquerading as her wife for his safety. Gora meets a singer-dancer Kitty and falls in love with her, she too reciprocates his feelings and becomes his accomplice. Through an admirer of Kitty, Gora acquires the things he needs to set up a bomb making factory and is determined to make his plan a success. At this time however, Bipin arrives in Goa accompanied by a police officer and mounts an operation against the revolutionaries, even succeeding in destroying the ship that carried boxes of ammunition, killing Anjali. Gora has no choice but to escape and foils the plans made by the police with Kitty's help. The film ends with both escaping to Bombay safely.Cast
Adapted from The Hindu.- Dev Anand as Gora
- Geeta Bali as Kitty
- Manmohan Krishna as Bipin
- Krishan Dhawan as the police officer
- Poonam as Anjali/Meenakshi
- Shrawan Kumar as Ajay
- Mehmood