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Sharmeelee (trans. Shy) is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language romantic film produced by Subodh Mukherjee and directed by Samir Ganguly. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Raakhee, Narendra Nath, Nazir Hussain, Iftekhar, S N Banerjee, Anita Guha, Asit Sen. Raakhee played a double role in this film, and its success helped make her one of the decade's top leading ladies in Hindi films. The film also marked the debut of Ranjeet.[2] The film starts on a romantic track, but after halfway takes a brilliant turn towards mystery and thriller genre.

While returning from the Army Base, Captain Ajit Kapoor stops over at a rest-house, where there is a party on, and he meets a charming, vivacious young lady. When he reaches home, his guardian, Father Joseph, wants him to get married. When Joseph accompanies Ajit to see the girl, whose name is Kanchan, Ajit is thrilled to find out that it is the very same girl he met at the rest-house. Ajit indicates his approval, and the stage is set for them to get married. It is then that Ajit finds out that Kanchan is not the girl he had met, but her twin-sister. Kanchan is heart-broken at this, but wants her sister to be happy. Ajit is even more happy when he finally meets Kamini, who also recognizes him. She tries to put a spanner in the works by emotionally attacking Ajit.

The soundtrack of Sharmeelee was an instant hit with the Indian audience, with songs composed by S. D. Burman, written by Neeraj and sung by Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle. The songs had featured on the Binaca Geetmala top 10 songs of 1971. The track "Khilte Hain Gul Yahan", sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar as separate solos in the movie, has been set in the raag Bhimpalasi (known as Abheri in Carnatic Music), while "Megha Chhaye Aadhi Raat" is set in the raga Patdeep (Close to Gourimanohari of Carnatic Music).

Sharmeelee is a bit of a cross between a couple of scenes from Aankhen, and a Mills and Boon novel. The twin sisters, the one man both of them love, the villain-and-his-villainy angle: all of it is covered. A good, entertaining, time-pass film. Not great cinema, but great mush.

I love the songs of the film. Apart from Khilte hain gul yahan, I love O meri O meri O meri sharmilee. I love the whole food heist thing at the army camp. Rakhee looks so fetching during that scene. Of course, Rakhee looks so beautiful throughout the film. Shashi Kapoor was at his handsomest during this period of his life.

Dev 40 plus actor
Dev anand looked young up to Johnny mera naam and prempujari.he was 47 years then and effortlessly stretched to Gmbler and Tere mere sapne. His charm started diminishing from then onwards ofcourse he was past 50 by then. But on thing is indisputable no other actor has this kind of longevity as Dev has.

Shashi Kapoor is spectacular as eye candy, which is one of the reason I went crazy a while back and tried to watch all his films after seeing this one. He looks so handsome as the captain. And Rakhee too! The songs made this movie worth the watch, and the film was entertaining, if kind of overboard.

Amitabh Bachchan eclipses Dharmendra from the superstar throne with films like AAA, Parvarish, Trishul, Don and MKS. Hema Malini also gives her last hits with films such as Dream Girl. After this era, she more or less becomes reliant on Amitabh to stay relevant. This era is more or less defined as the peak of the multi-starrer era.

Just curious, where exactly would you place the boundary between the 60s and the 70s. I would probably place it around 1972 or so. It seems to be a year where films of both 60s and 70s influences existed. Seeta Aur Geeta and Gora Aur Kala are more 70s while films like Amar Prem, Pakeezah, Bombay to Goa and Bawarchi seem to have a more subdued, muted 60s feel.

And just five years later, she played his mother in Yeh Vaada Raha. It is a reflection of what short screen lives actresses used to have in Hindi cinema as leading ladies, but the fact that she also looks fairly acceptable as the mother is a sad reminder that Raakhee really did lose that glamorous look pretty quickly.