Mere Jeevan Saathi is a 1972 Hindi movie produced by Harish and Vinod Shah. It is directed by Ravikant Nagaich

Ravikant Nagaich

Ravikant Nagaich is an Indian film personality born at Atrauli- Uttar Pradesh, India in a Brahmin family....

, and it stars Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

, Tanuja, Sujit Kumar, Bindu

Bindu (actress)

Bindu is an actress in Indian cinema who was most popular, receiving several award nominations, in the 1970s. She has acted in over 160 movies in a career that spanned four decades.-Early life:...

, Helen, Utpal Dutt

Utpal Dutt

Utpal Dutt was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali Theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the 'Little Theater Group' in 1947, which enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period...

 and Rajindranath.

The movie was made at the height of Rajesh Khanna's popularity wave. The combination of R.D. Burman's music and Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

's songs sung for Rajesh Khanna contributed to the film's success. The film also had a notable song by Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...

. The songs of this film still stand out.

Plot

A talented artist (Rajesh Khanna) falls in love with a London-returned doctor, but his past creates problems for him. When that part of his past is resolved and he is to marry the girl he loves, he loses his eyesight in an accident and wounds up a prisoner of a cruel princess. He escapes, and is helped by another man, who nurtures and allows him to recuperate. When the artist returns home to find that the girl he wants to marry is engaged to the man who helped him recover. These songs are still popular: "Kitne arman, kitne sapne laya hoon main dekko na..."; "Diwana lekke aaya hai dil ka taraana, dekho kahin yaaron thukra na dena mera nazrana..."; "Diwana karke chodoge lagta hai yoon humko, sau bar kaha eh jane jahan yu pyar se tum dekka na karo..."; "O mere dil ke chain, chain aye mere dil ko dua kijiye..."; "Chala jata hoon kisiki dhoon me dadakte dil ke tarane liye..."; Written by Majrooh Sultanpuri

Majrooh Sultanpuri

Majrooh Sultanpuri was an Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter...