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Love in Tokyo

  • 19661966
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 44m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
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POPULARITY
124,837
46,390
Love in Tokyo (1966)
RomanceComedyDrama
Gayatridevi wants her son Ashok to marry Sarita, whom she has chosen for him. However, Ashok is in love with Asha. Things take a turn when Ashok loses his eyesight in an accident.Gayatridevi wants her son Ashok to marry Sarita, whom she has chosen for him. However, Ashok is in love with Asha. Things take a turn when Ashok loses his eyesight in an accident.Gayatridevi wants her son Ashok to marry Sarita, whom she has chosen for him. However, Ashok is in love with Asha. Things take a turn when Ashok loses his eyesight in an accident.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
179
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
124,837
46,390
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    • Director
      • Pramod Chakravorty
    • Writers
      • Sachin Bhowmick(screenplay)
      • Agha Jani Kashmiri(dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Joy Mukherjee
      • Asha Parekh
      • Mehmood
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    • Director
      • Pramod Chakravorty
    • Writers
      • Sachin Bhowmick(screenplay)
      • Agha Jani Kashmiri(dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Joy Mukherjee
      • Asha Parekh
      • Mehmood
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    • 3User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Joy Mukherjee
    Joy Mukherjee
    • Ashok
    • (as Joy Mukerji)
    Asha Parekh
    Asha Parekh
    • Asha
    Mehmood
    Mehmood
    • Mahesh
    Pran Sikand
    Pran Sikand
    • Pran
    • (as Pran)
    Shobha Khote
    Shobha Khote
    • Sheela
    Dhumal
    Dhumal
    • Sheela's dad
    Master Shahid
    • Chickoo
    Lalita Pawar
    Lalita Pawar
    • Gayatridevi
    Asit Kumar Sen
    Asit Kumar Sen
    • Chatterjee
    • (as Asit Sen)
    Mohan Choti
    Mohan Choti
    • Mohan
    Madan Puri
    Madan Puri
    • Asha's uncle
    Ulhas
    • Sarita's dad
    Tarun Bose
    Tarun Bose
    • Doctor P.C. Roy
    Lata Bose
    • Sarita
    Murad
    Murad
    • Lawyer
    Sopariwala
    Sopariwala
    • Jailor
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Pramod Chakravorty
    • Writers
      • Sachin Bhowmick(screenplay) (story)
      • Agha Jani Kashmiri(dialogue)
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      After ziddi, pramod chakravorboty was again to take s.d.burman as the music composer for love in tokyo but he had to take shanker jaikishan because of s.d health problems. When the unit left for tokyo all the songs were already recorded except the tittle song as mohd rafi had gone abroad. Pramod decided they should leave for tokyo and when mohd rafi comes back will record the song and the tape would be sent to tokyo and pramod will shoot the song, meanwhile pramod shot some airiel scenes of tokyo from helicopter for this song. Mohd rafi came back 2 weeks late and pramod shot all the required scenes so the unit was idle waiting for the song. When mohd rafi reached mumbai, without going home he directly hurriedly went to record the song and was very excited thats why it can be heard the song mohd rafi sang fast. The tape on same day was sent to tokyo and the shooting of the song was completed fast. When the song starts joy mukherjee crosses the zebra cross and carrying asha parekh and could not hold asha slips and falls down on the street. In the film this scene is there. Love in Tokyo is the first film shot in Tokyo, Japan.
    • Crazy credits
      "...and Japan".
    • Connections
      Referenced in Brahmachari (1968)
    • Soundtracks
      Aaja Re Aa Zara Aa Lehraake
      Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri

      Music by Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal (as Shankar-Jaikishan)

      Sung by Mohammad Rafi

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    9/10
    Fantastic movie filmed in Tokyo with an excellent soundtrack
    Love in Tokyo was shot on location in Japan shortly after the 1964 Olympics. The story starts off in India where Ashok (Joy Mukherji) is being pressured to marry a woman he doesn't love. His elderly mother asks him to travel to Tokyo to pick up his eight year old nephew, a recently orphaned boy named Chikoo whom Ashok has never met because his family disowned his older brother after he married a Japanese woman.

    Ashok arrives in Tokyo only to discover that Chikoo has no intention of going to India, a country he has never seen before. Ashok hopes to win his nephew over by taking him on an expensive shopping trip, but the boy escapes when his attention is diverted by a beautiful woman named Asha (Asha Parekh), whom he sees performing a traditional Indian dance on television. Asha was also orphaned as a child and raised by her uncle in the Indian community of Tokyo. Asha's uncle wants her to marry a man she despises, a boorish, chain smoking airline pilot named Pran. Asha runs away after she discovers that the two men have cooked up a fiendish plot to get their hands on her sizable inheritance.

    Chikoo and Asha both end up in the same hiding place and form an alliance against their uncles. Asha protects the boy by posing as a bearded Sikh until she realizes that she has fallen in love with Ashok. She later pretends to be Chikoo's Japanese aunt in order to win Ashok's heart without being discovered. The movie has subplot involving a friend of Ashok's named Mahesh (popular comedian Mehmood) who comes to Tokyo to marry a woman from a higher class. There's a hilarious scene where Mehmood fools his potential father-in-law by posing as an "international geisha" who just happens to speak Hindi fluently.

    Love in Tokyo contains the fast paced witty dialog found in many Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn romantic comedies. It would have made an excellent 90 minute film but the actual length is almost twice that. The second half contains enough melodrama to fill a season of General Hospital and the ending is straight out of a James Bond movie. However it's important to remember that Bollywood is not Hollywood and moviegoers in each country have different expectations.

    The film contains two of the most beloved songs from Indian cinema: "Love in Tokyo" by Rafi Mohamed and "Sayonara" by Lata Mangeshkar. The latter is the reason that Japanese tourists in India are often greeted with a cheery "sayonara sayonara".
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    • Release date
      • 1966 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Language
      • Hindi
    • Also known as
      • 東京での愛
    • Filming locations
      • Central Famous Kardar Studios, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    • Production company
      • Pramod Films
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      2 hours 44 minutes

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