''Tere Mere Sapne'' (English: ''Our Dreams'') is a

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

film produced by

Dev Anand Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. He was ...

, and written and directed by his brother Vijay Anand for

Navketan Films Navketan Films was a film production house based in Mumbai, India. Started in 1949 by actor-director and producer Dev Anand and his elder brother Chetan Anand, whose debut film, ''Neecha Nagar'', received the Palme d'Or (Best Film) award, at the ...

. The movie stars

, Mumtaz,

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and Vijay Anand in key roles. The film's music is by

S. D. Burman Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tripura royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one o ...

and the story is based on '' The Citadel'', a novel by A.J. Cronin. In 1972, it was made as

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film ''Jiban Saikate'', with

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and Aparna Sen and in 1982, it was remade into the

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film ''

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''.

Cast

as Dr. Anand Kumar * Mumtaz as Nisha Patel / Nisha Kumar *

as Maltimala (Sp. App.) *Mahesh Kaul as Dr. Prasad * Vijay Anand as Dr. Jagannath Kothari * Tabassum as Maltimala's Hairdresser * Agha as Dr. Bhutani * Paro as Mrs. Prasad * Leela Mishra as Nisha's aunt * Sapru as Phoolchand *

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as Dancer in song "Mera Saajan Phool Kamal Ka" * Mumtaz Begum as Maltimala's Mother *

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as Seth. Madhochand * Dulari as Phoolchand's Wife

Soundtrack

The Soundtrack of the movie is by Sachin Dev Burman and the lyrics were penned by

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Reception

In 1971, a dispute occurred at one cinema in Dadar, when a Marathi movie was replaced with ''Tere Mere Sapne''. Unlike Anand's previous "Golden" hits, ''Tere Mere Sapne'' did not do as well at the box office. Among retrospective reviews, Farhana Farook writing for

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called it one of Mumtaz's best performances.

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included it in it in their list of Anand's top 10 films.

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who included it in his list of ''70 favourite movies since 1947'' stated "The film stayed with me. This was romance in the early Seventies, but the kind of characters you saw in this film were rare at the time -- like the alcoholic doctor. At that time, one was aching for films that would come close to Erich Segal’s Love Story. And Tere Mere Sapne was different, despite being a typical Hindi film. I was not interested in Aradhana (1969). Later there were other different films like Rajnigandha (1974) but they didn’t change my perception. For me, Tere Mere Sapne became a primer to see better cinema. We graduated to better cinema because of such films. Otherwise, films by directors like Satyajit Ray would have remained boxes to tick off on a to-do list."

References

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