''Aap Ki Parchhaiyan'' (English: ''Your Shadows'') is a 1964

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film. Produced and directed by Mohan Kumar, the film stars

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Om Prakash Om Prakash (born Om Prakash Chibber 19 December 1919 – 21 February 1998) was an Indian film actor. He was born in Jammu as Om Prakash Chibber and went on to become a well-known character actor of Bollywood. His most well-known movies are Nam ...

and Manorama. The film's music is by

Madan Mohan Madan Mohan is a form of the Hindu god, Krishna. Krishna is celebrated as ''Madan Mohan'', who mesmerizes everyone. His consort, Radha is glorified as Madan Mohan's ''Mohini'', who can even mesmerise Madan Mohan (her Kahn). Radha is known as th ...

. A couple of songs; "Main nigahen tere chehre se hataaoon kaise", by

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and "Agar mujhse mohabbat hai" by

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are plus points of this family drama.

Cast

as Chandramohan Chopra 'Channi' *

as Asha * Vijayalaxmi as usha( Rekhas friend) *

as Rekha *

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as Baldev Chopra *

Nazir Hussain Nazir Hussain (15 May 1922 – 16 October 1987) was an Indian actor, director and screenwriter. He was famous as a character actor in Hindi cinema and acted in almost 500 films. Dev Anand starred in a large proportion of the films he acted in ...

as Dinanath Chopra *

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as Mrs. Dinanath Chopra * Mumtaz Begum a Rekha's Mother *

as Vilayti Ram * Moppet Rajoo * Manorama as Mrs. Vilayti Ram * Brahm Bhardwaj as Rekha's Father * Kartar Singh (Sikh passenger in train) * Khairati as Gulzari (Om Prakash assistant) * Madhu Apte * Santosh Kapoor * Sadhu Singh * Moolchand as Lala Khushiram * Nazir Kashmiri * Sayyed * Harbans Darshan M. Arora as Chaman Lal

Music

The music of the film was composed by

, and Lyrics provided by

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* 1964 films 1960s Hindi-language films Films scored by Madan Mohan Films directed by Mohan Kumar {{1960s-Hindi-film-stub