Anamika is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Raghunath Jalani, and starring Sanjeev Kumar with Jaya Bhaduri.

[1] Devendra Dutt, also known as Deven (Sanjeev Kumar), is a famous author and a raging misogynist, who portrays women as untrustworthy in all his novels, and lives with his uncle, Shiv Prasad (A. K. Hangal), and young niece, Dolly (Baby Pinky) in Mumbai.

One night, while returning home from a felicitation ceremony, Deven and Shiv Prasad witness a young girl (Jaya Bhaduri) being thrown out of a moving car and falling unconscious on the road.

Despite his initial hatred towards women, Deven gradually mellows down and grows close to Anamika, secretly wishing she would stay at his house forever and even refusing to hand her over to the police.

On returning to Mumbai with Anamika, Deven meets Malhotra at his office, only to learn from him that Kanchan is actually not his wife, but his employee who had accompanied him on his holiday to Shimla the previous year.

On Malhotra's advice, Deven proceeds to meet an attractive cabaret dancer named Rubai (Helen), who informs him that Kanchan is a prostitute who used to work for her.

As a result, a disturbed and anguished Deven banishes Anamika from his house and even refuses to hear her side, disappointing both Shiv Prasad and Dolly.

Meanwhile, Shiv Prasad, who still has faith in Anamika, shows Deven a newspaper article about her, where she is identified by her true identity as Archana, who is receiving an award for philanthropy on behalf of her late mother, Saraswati Devi (Achala Sachdev), from an institute in Delhi.

As a result, Archana escaped from Naresh's house and met Rubai, with whose help she joined Malhotra's modeling company by the name of Kanchan in order to start afresh.

While Rubai's henchmen were kidnapping her, Archana jumped out of their moving car and fell unconscious on the street the night Deven and Shiv Prasad found her.

When she regained consciousness and discovered that she was at her favourite author's house, Archana felt as if fate had suddenly smiled on her and decided to stay, come what may, causing her to act of being Deven's wife.