The husband, the wife and the mistress) is a 1978 Hindi romantic comedy film produced and directed by B. R. Chopra.

The film stars Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjeeta Kaur, and in guest appearances Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Tina Munim and Parveen Babi.

[1][2][3] The film was remade under the same name in 2019 starring Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Pandey.

Ranjeet is newly employed in a company, whose pay scales can be gauged from the fact that he goes to work on a bicycle.

The same evening, Ranjeet goes to the wedding of his friend Harish whose bride happens to live in Sharda's colony.

He pretends to be the helpless grieving husband of a cancer stricken wife, who won't live much longer.

Ranjeet makes even more interesting back up plans: He prepares two books of poetry, professing his love.

Ranjeet quietly gives Nirmala some money and lies to her, in a last-ditch attempt at damage control.

But honest Nirmala returns the money to Sharda, making things even worse for Ranjeet.

Sharda decides to give Ranjeet another chance, if only for their son and soon life comes back on track.

All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi; all music is composed by Ravindra JainA remake of the film was released on 6 December 2019.

The film stars Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Pandey and is directed by Mudassar Aziz.