Shola Aur Shabnam (1961 film)

Shola Aur Shabnam (English: Fire and Dew) is a 1961 Indian Hindi-language romance film written and directed by Ramesh Saigal.

The film is about a young man torn between love for his long lost childhood sweetheart, and devotion towards a friend who has helped set him up in his career.

Prakash's elder brother is Aakash, played by the veteran character actor Abhi Bhattacharya.

Aakash is a bachelor, his devious father having caused the suicide of his paramour, a poor village girl.

Prakash is smitten with and soon to be engaged to his father's friend's daughter Sandhya (Tarla Mehta), who arrives at their jungle home.

The seemingly complex love triangle reaches a climax, with the childhood sweethearts being united, but at the cost of Aakash losing his life in the same manner as his beloved did.

The track "Jane Kya Dhoondti Rahti" is highly regarded as one of the best works in the whole career of Khayyam.