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Cast
 Dharmendra ...  Amar 
 Rajshree Shantaram ...  Neeta (as Rajshree) 
 Mehmood ...  Manglu 
 Nasir Hussain ...  Advocate Sinha (as Nazir Hussain) 
 Chand Usmani ...  Lajjo 
 Deven Verma ...  Vicky 
 Badri Prasad ...  R.N. Sharma 
 Sunder ...  Ganpat 
 Manmohan ...  Preetam (as Man Mohan) 
 Madhavi   
 Kundan   
 Keshav Rana ...  Sarju (as Kesho) 
 Parasram   
 Kirti   
 Raj Dewan  

Garam Dharam in shorts! Mehmood in a loin cloth (and a skimpy one at that)! A feisty heroine who doesn’t want to get married! What’s not to love? (Okay, besides for Mehmood in a skimpy loin cloth. Nobody needs to see that.)

This is “Taming of the Shrew” with retro charm, pretty people, and lovely songs by OP Nayyar. I liked it especially for the heroine who sticks up for herself, although of course societal norms win at the end: all girls really want to get married, even if they don’t know it. What else is there for them? But she puts up a good fight, and the chemistry between Rajshree and Dharmendra is sweet if not ***ling. Able support from a host of reliable character actors, and a gang of college students twisting away just add to the fun.

Neeta (Rajshree, and she’s gorgeous in this) is the daughter of the owner of a coal mine named RN Sharma (Badri Prasad). Sharma and Neeta have a combative relationship at best.
His lawyer and close friend Sinha (Nazir Hussain) is the father that Sharma has never been to Neeta, since her mother died giving birth to her. I think that last point is supposed to be a surprise when it’s finally revealed, but anybody who has ever watched a movie can figure it out immediately, so I’m not counting it as a spoiler of any kind.

Neeta surrounds herself with friends and lavishes her Daddy’s money on picnics and parties with them. After she leaves one such picnic in a bit of a huff, she meets Amar (Dharmendra) in the forest. He is instantly smitten by her beauty and romances her with a cute song “Tumhari Mulaqat Se” (it’s especially cute when he carries her little handbag for her).