Asli Naqli (1962)

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Best movie of this year hands down!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This classic movie of the early 60's is a fair manifestation of excellent skills of Hrishida's direction.The song "Tera Mera Piyar Amar" is indeed mesmerizing and remarkable in ingenuity. The other Lata-Rafi duet "Tujhe jeevan ki dor se" is also a memorable one. Above all, the direction is superb and carries a stark imprint of the master director who was coming on his feet to craft future hits like, Bawarchi, Anand, Mili, Abhiman and Namak Haram.Even though the movie is black and white still it was a box office hit. Sadhana's pure beauty and graceful acting surpasses Dev Anand's casual acting style. A good entertaining movie of the old guard.

This is one of the best movies I have seen. I am surprised that movies now-a-days don't come even near this movie. It was very entertaining indeed. The movies shows clean innocent love between people. It shows that you don't need money to be happy.Dev Anand a grandson of a wealthy man leaves house searching for self identity. He ends up with a small family consisting of brother and sister only. They give him all the love he had been missing from his life. He finds his love of life there as well.Sadhna acted wonderfully in this movie. Dev Anand was okay. Some scenes are very emotional especially that scene where Dev Anand's adopted sister fights with him.A must see movie.

Dev Anand plays Anand who is rich and pampered by the people. He wastes his grandfather's money on gambling until a wise man brings to light his wasted life. Dev's grandfather wants him to marry a rich girl whom Dev despises and quarrels with his grandfather. He leaves his home and travels into the wide wild world f which he is inexperienced. He is used to sleeping on soft beds and served around the clock by his servants but he is not used to sleeping on a hard mattress, cooking his food, washing his clothes etc. Worse, he has to work for his own living. But he does work with the help of Sadhana, who single handedly supports her own family comprising a mother and sister. Dev falls in love with Sadhana and wants to marry her but Dev's grandfather intervenes but eventually gives up when he notices the change in his grandson.The name Asli Naqli is justified because Dev experiences the world of money where love, the most important thing for a man's survival is missing and thus this world is termed as Naqli. On the contrary, the world of poor people is full of love and friendship and they value people and their feelings more than materialistic things. Thus this world is termed Asli. The title song of the film "Asli kya hai Naqli kya hai poocho dil se mere" justifies the title of the film. This film has mesmerizing songs like "Tera Mrea Pyar Amar" sung by Lata Mangeshkar and the film is directed well by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

Asli Naqli is the story of Dev Anand a rich cynical aimless young man. His grand father, Nasir Hussain wants Dev to marry a young girl of a rich family so that Nasir can take over the wealth of the girl's father. Furious Dev has a showdown with his grandfather and leaves his lavish home. He roams around hungry & tired. Anwar Hussain takes him home and Dev lives in the small hut along with Anwar's chatter box sister Sandhya Roy. Dev meets Sadhana and after a short romance interspersed with beautiful songs they decide to marry. Nasir Hussain tries to wreck the marriage plans but it's a happy ending with Nasir accepting Sadhana as Dev's wife.Asli Naqli has very beautiful songs composed by Shankar-Jaikishen, like "Cheda mere dil ne", "Tera mera pyaar amar", "Tujhe jeevan ki dore se" etc.I will rate Asli Naqli 8 out of 10.