Female Neighbour) is a 1968 Indian Hindi-language musical comedy film directed by Jyoti Swaroop and produced by Mehmood, N. C. Sippy and written by Rajendra Krishan.

[1] It is a remake of the Bengali film Pasher Bari (1952) based on a short story of the same name by Arun Chowdhury, starring Bhanu Bandyopadhyay and Sabitri Chatterjee.

The short story it was is considered to be an adaptation of the French play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by Edmond Rostand.

Vidyapati aka Guru, who is a singer and theater actor and Bhola's friend and mentor comes to his rescue and spies on Bindu.

Bindu tolerates advances of her South Indian music teacher Master Pillai aka Masterji.

It makes Bindu angry and in a fit of rage, she agrees to the marriage proposal of Kunwar Pratap Singh, which she had earlier rejected upon knowing that he is Bhola's Maternal Uncle.

Kishore Kumar's character in the film was inspired by the personality of his uncle, Dhananjay Banerjee (a classical singer),[6] and music director Khemchand Prakash.

The trademark innocent lunacy of the lovable film turned 50 this year″[10] In a similar 50th anniversary article, Devansh Sharma of Firstpost gave credit to RD Burman's music for changing the state of comedy genre in Hindi films as he felt that ″Burman's music gave wings to the camera that was otherwise doomed to sit still.

Krishan's poetry also allowed the editor and director a lot of freedom as they could choose the appropriate shot for every emotion expressed in the songs.″[11] The film is also remembered for Sunil Dutt's memorable performance in comedy who was known to play serious roles during that time.

In an interview Kaushik stated that Mehmood in Padosan inspired him to become an actor, he further said ″ I was lucky enough to recreate that kind of role in Sajan Chale Sasural and I got the Filmfare Award also.