Anuraag (1972 film)


Anuraag is a 1972 Hindi film, directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Moushumi Chatterjee and Vinod Mehra in lead roles. The Shakti Samanta fixture Rajesh Khanna, having earlier made Aradhana 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 story line 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".
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" with Sridevi in her first leading role. A. Bhimsingh also remade it in Malayalam as Raagam. It was also remade in Tamil as Neela Malargal, and in Kannada as Chiranjeevi, with Manjula and Srinath.

Plot

A blind sculptor, Shivani stays in an ashram and makes friends with a small boy, who is suffering from cancer. She falls in love with Rajesh. Rajesh asks his parents to permit him to marry her, to which his mother agrees, but his father refuses under her 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

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

Awards and nominations