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Shanta (Sadhana) is wealthy Rajbahadur Murthy Sagar's vivacious and uppity, orphan granddaughter. Her character is developed as pretty, haughty, aware of herself and contemptuous of servants. Shyam (Shammi Kapoor) and Shanta have a couple of tempestuous meetings. Shyam, who hails from Allahabad is educated and cares about the wellbeing of his widowed step-mother and wheel chair-bound step-sister Bina. Employed by the Rajbahadur as Manager of his household, Shyam has many opportunities to court Shanta, and he does so with a succession of songs and in style. Shanta however is a misandrist (a woman who hates men) as a result of her traumatic childhood. Rita (Laxmi Chhaya) who has been brought in by the Rajbahadur to help Shanta mend her unmannerly ways has given up and admits defeat. Taming the shrew is a challenge that only Shyam can take up. But how will he deal with a woman who believes in "fall from a hilltop, fall from above, fall from anywhere, but never fall in love"? She even ...

The original director of the movie Mr.Verna had passed away and he had already had shot some 12 reels of the movie. Then Shammi Kapoor told Manmohan Desai to complete the movie. When Manmohan Desai saw what has been shot, for the betterment of the movie, he had to sit with the writers and again he had to reshoot the whole movie. Whatever was shot had to be scrapped.


Complete credited cast:
Shammi Kapoor Shammi Kapoor - Shyam Kumar Saxena
Sadhana Sadhana - Shanta
Laxmi Chhaya Laxmi Chhaya - Rita
Kamal Mehra Kamal Mehra - Devdas
Purnima Purnima - Beena 'Binny'
Manorama Manorama - Shyam's stepmother
Jagdish Raj Jagdish Raj - Colonel Jung Bahadur
Sunder Sunder - Gopal
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dilip Dutt Dilip Dutt
Indumati Indumati
Anil Nagrath Anil Nagrath
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