Anuraag (1972 film)

Anuraag
Anuraag
Soundtrack album by S. D. Burman
Released	December 1, 1973
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	25:00
Language	Hindi
Label	Saregama
Producer	S. D. Burman
S. D. Burman chronology

Anuraag
Anuraag
Directed by	Shakti Samanta
Written by	Vrajendra Gaur
Screenplay by	Madhusudhan Kalelkar; Binoy Chatterjee
Story by	Shakti Samanta
Produced by	Shakti Samanta
Starring	Ashok Kumar; Nutan; Rajesh Khanna; Vinod Mehra; Moushmi Chatterjee
Cinematography	Aloke Das Gupta
Edited by	Bijoy Choudhury
Music by	S. D. Burman
Production; company	Shakti Films
Distributed by	United Producers
Release date	December 1972;
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Anuraag is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Moushumi Chatterjee, in her debut as a heroine, and Vinod Mehra in lead roles. The Shakti Samanta fixture Rajesh Khanna, having earlier made Aradhana (1969) and Kati Patang (1971) with Samanta, makes a special appearance. The music is by S. D. Burman. Initially, Samanta was unsure if the distributors would buy a film with such a storyline and had shared the idea with Rajesh Khanna, who encouraged Samanta and volunteered to make an extended appearance for the film, and also distributed the film under the banner "Shakti-Raj" (indicating Shakti Samanta and Rajesh Khanna).^[1]

The film became a semi-hit, while doing extremely well in big cities.^[2] and won the Filmfare Best Movie Award for the year. It was later remade into the Telugu film Anuragalu (1975) with Sridevi in her first leading role. A. Bhimsingh also remade it in Malayalam as Raagam (1975). It was also remade in Tamil as Neela Malargal (1979) and in Kannada as Chiranjeevi (1976).

Plot

A blind sculptor, Shivani (Moushumi Chatterjee) stays in an ashram and makes friends with a young boy Chandan(Satyajeet), who is suffering from cancer. She falls in love with Rajesh (Vinod Mehra). Rajesh asks his parents to permit him to marry her, to which his mother agrees, but his father refuses. Then, an eye specialist reveals that an eye replacement would cure her. Later, as a dying wish, the young boy donates his eyes to her.^[3]

Cast

Ashok Kumar - Mr. Shiv Shankar Rai/Rai Saheb
Nutan - Anu Rai (Rai Saheb's daughter-in-law)
Rajesh Khanna - Gangaram, shopkeeper (Guest appearance)
Vinod Mehra - Rajesh
Moushmi Chatterjee - Shivani
Master Satyajeet - Chandan Rai, grandson of Rai Saheb
Nasir Hussain - Anu's Father
Murad - Eye Specialist
David
Asit Sen - D'Souza
Madan Puri - Amirchand, Rajesh's father
Anita Guha - Rajesh's Mother
Abhi Bhattacharya - Hari
Satyen Kappu - Dr. Sunil

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film contains 5 songs. The music is composed by S.D. Burman, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi^[4]

Songs
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Sun Ri Pawan Pawan Purvaiya"	Lata Mangeshkar	3:33
2.	"Tere Nainon Ke Main Deep Jalaoonga"	Lata Mangeshkar & Mohammed Rafi	3:36
3.	"Ram Kare Babua (with Dialogues)"	Kishore Kumar	4:15
4.	"Neend Churayi Chain Churaye"	Lata Mangeshkar	4:13
5.	"Mera Raja Beta Boojhe Ek Paheli"	Lata Mangeshkar	4:05
6.	"Anuraag Theme (Instrumental)"	S.D. Burman	6:11
Total length:			20:49