''Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai'' () is a 1960 Indian

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-language

romantic drama Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

film, produced by S. A. Bagar. It was written and directed by

Kishore Sahu Kishore Sahu (22 November 1915 – 22 August 1980) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He appeared in 22 films between 1937 and 1980, and he directed 20 films between 1942 and 1974. His directorial ven ...

. The film stars

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and

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as leads. The film tells the story of a surgeon who is obligated to marry the daughter of a family friend, while he is in love with a colleague nurse, played by Meena Kumari. It is one of the noted acting performances of lead actress Meena Kumari's career. The film's music is by

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, and features a hit song, " Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh". At the 1961 Filmfare Awards it created an upset by beating the popular musical epic, ''

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'' of Naushad, for the Best Music Director category.

Plot

Sushil Verma is a surgeon in the

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Hospital. He lives on the hospital grounds in a doctor's house with his aging mother and younger sister Munni. After Sushil's father died, his father's close friend paid Sushil's medical school fees, thus creating a debt that Sushil's mother feels needs to be fulfilled. Karuna is a nurse who comes to Shimla Hospital and first encounters Sushil during an emergency surgery. Both are clearly besotted with each other, but keep their feelings restrained. By chance, on a nurses' beach day trip, Karuna meets Munni, who injures herself whilst playing. She takes Munni back to her house, not knowing that she is Dr. Verma's sister, and the house she is visiting belongs to him. She dresses Munni's wounds, sees how much work needs to be done in the house, and the fact that his mother is too ill to attend to household tasks. She immediately steps in and helps out; cooking, cleaning and taking care of everyone. Sushil comes home to see this and falls even more in love. However, later on, his mother organises a trip to Kashmir for the whole family, and guilt-trips Sushil into marrying Kusum, the daughter of the man who paid for his medical school fees. They come back to Shimla, and Karuna is devastated when she finds this out. Although she manages to conceal this for a while, situations keep arising and Kusum soon gets jealous of Sushil's preference for Karuna, and her perceived ill-treatment. Kusum manipulates and mistreats her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, until Sushil orders her out of the house. She goes back to Kashmir. Dr. Verma's mother then realises her mistake, that she should have gotten him married to Karuna. To avoid scandal, Karuna moves to another hospital. But Kusum seeks to enact revenge on her. Dr. Verma finds this out and tries to beat Kusum to Karuna, which leads to a clifftop high speed car chase, resulting in Kusum's death. The film concludes with the reunion of Karuna and Sushil.

Cast

as Dr. Sushil K. Verma *

as Karuna *

as Kusum *

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as Head Nurse *

Tun Tun Uma Devi Khatri
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as Girdhari * Shammi as Sheela *

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as Munni *Pratima Devi as Mrs. K. Verma (as Protima Devi) *Edwina as Nurse Rosie * Helen as Cabaret Dancer *

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as Singer in item song, 'Jane Kahan Gayi'

Soundtrack

The Hawaiian-themed song "Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh" is based on "My Lips Are Sealed" by

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. All songs were written by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri.

Awards

*1961

Filmfare Award for Best Music Director The Filmfare Award for Best Music Director is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to the best composer/arranger of a soundtrack. This category was first presented in 1954. Naushad Ali was th ...

for

References

External links

{{Kishore Sahu 1960 films 1960s Hindi-language films 1960s Indian films Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan Films set in Himachal Pradesh Films directed by Kishore Sahu Indian black-and-white films Indian romantic drama films Films with screenplays by Kishore Sahu