Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973 film)

Aa Gale Lag Jaa (English: Come, Embrace me) is a 1973 Hindi romantic film directed by Manmohan Desai based on a story by Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai. Starring Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore and Shatrughan Sinha.

The film became a box office hit.^[1]

Sushma Shreshta received a Filmfare nomination as Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Tera Mujhse Hai." Her nomination is the only Filmfare nomination for the film.^[2] This movie is noted for its wonderful hit songs and was a hit. It had music by R.D. Burman with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. The famous song Jaane Tu Ya........Jaane Na which was also sung in the movie of the same name is from this movie.

Summary

Preeti lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with her widower dad, Heerachand, and is a medical student. While on a trip to Simla, she meets and falls in love with a Casanova, Prem, and both get intimate. As Prem asks Heerachand for his daughter's hand in marriage, the latter refuses, on the ground that he (Heerachand) does not consider him (Prem) worthy of her. As Prem challenges Heerachand regarding his daughter's love for him, he leaves Preeti a note, explaining that her father refused the alliance and he was headed to meet his mother, who was urgently sick. Heerachand gets a hold of the letter before Preeti and changes the letter, writing that Prem went away as her father refused to provide any monetary compensation. Years later, both Prem and Preeti are fated to meet again. This time Prem is accompanied by a handicapped young lad, Rahul, while Preeti is about to get engaged to Dr. Amar. Preeti soon realizes that the reason Prem has re-appeared in her life to be near her nubile to-be sister-in-law, Tikki. The question remains what will she do under the circumstances to try and expose Prem as well as protect her past from Dr. Amar?

It turns out that Rahul is Prem and Preeti's son and that Prem has come to Dr.Amar for Rahul's treatment. Preeti's father had told her after the birth of the child that she had given birth to a still-born child.

After Rahul's operation Preeti comes to know about the reality and confronts her father who confesses to her that he had lied about her giving birth to a dead child and asks her forgiveness but Preeti retorts saying that she an never forgive him as he had lied to her and thinks herself deceived by her own father. Rahul's operation turns to be successful and Preeti and Prem are reunited with their son along with their families.

Cast

Soundtrack

• Vaada Karo...Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar
• Na Koi Dil Main Samaya....Kishore Kumar
• Tera Mujhse Hain Pehle Ka Nata Koi \ Jaane Tu ... YaJaane Naa.....Kishore Kumar and Sushma Shrestha
• Aye Mere Bete - Kishore Kumar and Sushma Shrestha

References

Vaada Karo - Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar
Aye Mere Bete - Kishore Kumar and Sushma Shrestha

External links

• Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973 film) at the Internet Movie Database