Asli-Naqli

Renu and Anand marry with Rai Bahadur's blessings, a happy ending to a beautifully directed film.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee as a director comes to maturity in this film and develops a signature style of healthy family entertainment.

In the backdrop of rains outside, with Mohammed Rafi's magic all around, someone takes away a goat from the rain-sheltered veranda and one is transported to the dream world of love.

In the early part of his career, Hrishikesh Mukherjee was a cinematographer and all through the film, there is brilliant camera work.

Highlights: There is a scene in which Nazir Hussain praises the workmanship of an artifact to Dev Anand when the latter is disturbed.

The same scene would be repeated by Hrishikesh Mukherjee in the film Namak Haram (1973), between Om Shivpuri and Amitabh Bachchan.

In a single scene, Motilal, the character actor gives a brilliant performance by advising Dev Anand to let things go, rather than to control them.

This film's story is partly inspired by The Definite Object, a 1917 romance novel by the British writer Jeffery Farnol.