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Prarthana (Prayer) is a 1943 Hindi social film directed by Sarvottam Badami for Sohrab Modi's Minerva Movietone. The music director was Saraswati Devi and the lyricist was Safdar Aah Sitapuri. Having worked for Madan Theatres Ltd and Sagar Movietone in the 1930s, the famous singer and actress Jehanara Kajjan returned to work after a hiatus of four years working for studios like Minerva Movietone. Prarthana is cited as "probably" her last film before her death in 1944. The film starred Motilal, Jahanara Kajjan, Sabita Devi, Sajjan, Nimabalkar, K. N. Singh, Sadat Ali, Mehboob and Abu Bakar.
Prarthana is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film, directed by AB Raj and produced by T. K. Balachandran. The film stars Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Sankaradi in lead roles. The film had musical score by V. Dakshinamoorthy.