Anuraag (1973 film)

Anuraag is a 1972 Hindi film, directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Moushmi Chatterjee in her Hindi film debut and Vinod Mehra in lead roles. The Shakti Samanta fixture Rajesh Khanna, having earlier made Aradhana (1969) and Kati Patang with Samanta, makes a special appearance. The music is by S. D. Burman. Initially Shakti Samanta was thinking whether to make this film or not as he was not sure 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 extended appearance for the film and also distributed the film under the banner "Shakti-Raj" (indicating Shakti Samanta and Rajesh Khanna).

Contents

• Plot
• Cast
• Music
• Awards and nominations
• References

The film became a semi-hit, while doing extremely well in big cities., and won the Filmfare Best Movie Award for the year. It was later remade into the Telugu film "Anuraagaalu" (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), in Kannada Chiranjeevi with Manjula and Srinath .

Plot

A blind sculptor, Shivani (Moushmi Chatterjee) stays in an ashram and makes friends with a small boy (Satyajit), 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 under present condition. 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 thus granting her eyesight for the first time in her life.

Cast

Ashok Kumar - Mr. Shiv Shankar Rai/Rai Saheb

Master Satyajeet - Chandan Rai, grandson of Rai Saheb

Nutan - Anu Rai (Rai Saheb's daughter-in-law)

Vinod Mehra - Rajesh

Moushmi Chatterjee - Shivani

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

Satyendra Kapoor - Dr. Sunil

Rajesh Khanna - Gangaram, shopkeeper (Guest appearance)

Music

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

Awards and nominations

Filmfare Best Movie Award (1973)

Filmfare Special Award for Guest Artist - Rajesh Khanna

Filmfare Nomination for Best Actress-Moushmi Chatterjee

Filmfare Nomination for Best Supporting Actress-Nutan

Filmfare Nomination for Best Story-Shakti Samanta