A group of freedom-fighters face betrayal and go on the run from police in British-occupied Hindustan.
Acting
Dev Anand's smoldering revolutionary intensity
Direction
Majumdar's claustrophobic chase sequences
Costume
Gora's iconic scarf as fugitive signature
Director
Phani Majumdar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the height of the Indian People's Theatre Association movement, Faraar channels IPTA's radical aesthetics into commercial cinema—rare studio backing for explicitly anti-colonial content.
Geeta Bali's Kitty was revolutionary for 1955: a female operative who initiates romance and outsmarts police, not merely decorative suffering. Majumdar reportedly fought censors who wanted her 'tamed.'
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