Ma) Leela Chitnis as Mrs. Nivaran Praveen Paul Mumtaz Begum as Mrs. Tandav Mehar Banu Basanta Choudhury as Prof. Rajat Sen Sharma Nazir Hussain as Postmaster Nivaran Kanhaiyalal as Pandit Tarkalankarji Jayant as Rai Bahadur Tandav Landlord Rashid Khan as Village Doctor Asit Sen as Bhanju Babu Motilal as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy Hari Shivdasani as School's Principal Moni Chatterjee as Kaviraj (Vaidji) Keshto Mukherjee as Keshto (The Compounder) Nishi as Chanda (Tandav's sister in law) Music This film has a very popular song "O Sajana, Barkha Bahar Aai..." sung by Lata Mangeshkar, penned by Shailendra and composed by Salil Chowdhary who also happens to be story-writer of the film. Awards and nominations Parakh is one of the seven Bimal Roy's film where he won Filmfare Awards for Best Direction. Won Filmfare Best Director Award - Bimal Roy Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award - Motilal Filmfare Best Sound Award - George D'Cruz Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Film Filmfare Award for Best Story - Salil Choudhury References External links 1960 films 1960s Hindi-language films Films directed by Bimal Roy Indian satirical films Indian black-and-white films Films scored by Salil Chowdhury