{{short description|1964 film by Raja Paranjape}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Pathlaag | image = Pathlaag.jpg | alt = | caption = DVD cover | director = Raja Paranjape | producer = Raja Paranjape | writer = | screenplay = G. D. Madgulkar | story = | based_on = {{Based on|''Asha Parat Yete''|Jayant Deokule}} | starring = Kashinath Ghanekar<br />Bhavana | narrator = | music = Datta Davjekar | cinematography = Datta Gorle | editing = | studio = Shripad Chitra | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1964}} | runtime = 123 minutes{{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=381}} | country = India | language = Marathi | budget = | gross = }} '''''Pathlaag''''' ({{translation|The Chase}}) is a 1964 Indian Marathi-language thriller film produced and directed by Raja Paranjape. It is an adaptation of the Jayant Deokule novel ''Asha Parat Yete'' (Asha comes back). The film stars Kashinath Ghanekar and Bhavana. It was a commercial success, and won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi and Maharashtra State Film Award for Best Actor for Ghanekar. The film was later remade in Tamil as ''Idhaya Kamalam'' (1965) and in Hindi as ''Mera Saaya'' (1966).
== Plot == When Balasaheb Panse, a renowned Indian lawyer goes abroad, he receives a telegram informing him of the sudden death of his wife Asha. After she has been cremated and he is still in mourning, a woman arrested as a member of a criminal gang by the police claims to be Asha. She keeps telling Panse intimate details about their lives, expresses surprise that anyone could have thought her dead and implores him to have her released, causing a major emotional dilemma for Panse. Eventually, the second woman is revealed as indeed his wife, while the woman who died was her hitherto unmentioned twin sister.
== Cast == * Kashinath Ghanekar as Balasaheb Panse{{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=381}} * Bhavana as Asha and Nisha/Raina {{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=381}}
== Production == ''Pathlaag'' is based on Jayant Deokule's novel ''Asha Parat Yete''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=Asha+Parat+Yete&pg=PA904 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-85739-229-6 |editor-last=Goble |editor-first=Alan |pages=125, 904}}</ref> It was produced and directed by Raja Paranjape under Shripad Chitra,<ref name="12thaward" /> and the screenplay was written by G. D. Madgulkar. The cinematography was handled by Datta Gorle. Kashinath Ghanekar and Bhavana made their acting debuts with this film.{{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=381}}
== Soundtrack == The music was composed by Datta Davjekar, and screenwriter Madgulkar also served as lyricist.{{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=381}} There are only two songs in the film: "Ya Dolyanchi Don Pakhare" and "Nako Marus Hak", both sung by Asha Bhosle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pathlag Mar |url=https://gaana.com/album/pathlag-mar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180821073928/https://gaana.com/album/pathlag-mar |archive-date=21 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |website=Gaana}}</ref> The former attained popularity.{{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=382}}
== Release and reception == ''Pathlaag'' became a commercial success, and won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi.<ref name="12thaward">{{Cite web |title=12th National Film Awards |url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12thNFAAward.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225220334/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12thNFAAward.aspx |archive-date=25 February 2012 |access-date=21 August 2018 |website=International Film Festival of India}}</ref> The film was later remade in Tamil as ''Idhaya Kamalam'' (1965)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Guy |first=Randor |author-link=Randor Guy |date=3 August 2013 |title=Idhaya Kamalam (1965) |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-columns/idhaya-kamalam-1965/article4985463.ece |url-status=live |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821060822/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-columns/idhaya-kamalam-1965/article4985463.ece |archive-date=21 August 2018}}</ref> and in Hindi as ''Mera Saaya'' (1966).{{sfn|Rajadhyaksha|Willemen|1998|p=382}} Despite its success, ''Pathlaag'' failed to set a trend of more detective films being made in Marathi.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Narwekar |first1=Sanjit |title=Marathi Cinema: in retrospect |last2=Kul |first2=Raghuvir |last3=Samant |first3=D. B. |publisher=Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation |year=1995 |page=104 |author-link=Sanjit Narwekar}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{Cite book |last1=Rajadhyaksha |first1=Ashish |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |publisher=British Film Institute and Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-19-563579-5 |author-link=Ashish Rajadhyaksha |author-link2=Paul Willemen |orig-year=1994}}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0323598}} {{National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi}}
Category:1960s Marathi-language films Category:1964 thriller films Category:1964 films Category:Best Marathi Feature Film National Film Award winners Category:Films based on Indian novels Category:Indian thriller films Category:Marathi films remade in other languages Category:Twins in Indian films