Asli-Naqli (1962)

Renu lives a poor lifestyle with her mom, dad and a brother. Her dad decides to travel to Africa so that he can earn enough money to send his son to study engineering, so that he can find ... See full summary »

Director:

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writer:

Inder Raj Anand

Stars:

Dev Anand, Sadhana, Nasir Hussain

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dev Anand	...	Anand
Sadhana	...	Renu
Nasir Hussain	...	Dwarkadas
Sandhya Roy	...	Shanti
Mukri	...	Nandu
Leela Chitnis	...	Renu's mother
Indira
Sova Sen
Parvatibai
Sabina
Mehar Banu
Ajay Kumari
Anwar Hussain	...	Mohan
Hari Shivdasani
Keshto Mukherjee

Storyline

Renu lives a poor lifestyle with her mom, dad and a brother. Her dad decides to travel to Africa so that he can earn enough money to send his son to study engineering, so that he can find employment abroad. But fate has other plans when one day Renu's brother returns home sick from college, and shortly thereafter passes away. His shocked father books a seat on a plane to attend his son's funeral, but the plane crashes killing everyone on board. Shattered and devastated, Renu decides to hide her dad's death from her ill and fragile mom, and goes along pretending that her father is still alive. She obtains employment and through her earnings convinces her mom that her dad is regularly sending money. Then things brighten up when a homeless young man, Anand, enters her life, both fall in love with each other and want to get married. But once again fate plays a cruel joke on Renu as she subsequently finds out that Anand is not who he claims to be, but is in fact, a playboy, the grandson, ...

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Genres:

Drama | Musical

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Company Credits

Production Co:

L.B. Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Eena Meena Deeka (1994)

User Reviews

A Classic

This is one of the best movies I have seen. I am surprised that movies now-a-days don't come even near this movie. It was very entertaining indeed. The movies shows clean innocent love between people. It shows that you don't need money to be happy.

Dev Anand a grandson of a wealthy man leaves house searching for self identity. He ends up with a small family consisting of brother and sister only. They give him all the love he had been missing from his life. He finds his love of life there as well.

Sadhna acted wonderfully in this movie. Dev Anand was okay. Some scenes are very emotional especially that scene where Dev Anand's adopted sister fights with him.

A must see movie.