Synopsis
Sunder (Raj Kapoor), Radha (Vyjayantimala) and Gopal (Rajendra Kumar) are childhood friends. Sunder is obsessed with Radha, who has eyes only for Gopal. In a freak twist, Sunder and Radha are married. But Sunder comes across a love letter written to Radha...
Did you know?
One of the features of the film that became widely used later on in Bollywood is the use of foreign locales for on-location shooting, such as Venice, Paris, and Switzerland for the film’s honeymoon sequence. This started the Bollywood trend of shooting songs sequences abroad (primarily in Switzerland), against the background of "exotic" landscapes. The speciality of the film was two intermissions.
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Gopal gatecrashes into Sunder and Radha's honeymoon. They meet at Trummelbach Falls in Switzerland...
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Honeymoon at the Eiffel Tower, Paris...
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Honeymooning in the snow, dog-sledging atop the Glacier 3000 in Switzerland...
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Honeymooning in the long romantic canoes in the lagoons of Venice. The canoes drift past the San Giorgio Maggiore Church in Venice....
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Honeymoon in Rome. Radha and Sunder doing the usual touristy bits by taking photographs outside the II Vittoriano, Rome, Italy...
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The "O Mehbooba" song shot at Ooty Lake gives us a picture of how pristine Ooty Lake was in 1964, before tourism caught up. Radha escapes from Sunder but he follows her by boat singing the "O Mehbooba" song...
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Their hotel during their honeymoon in Switzerland was the Grand Hotel Giessbach. Since the movie was shot in 1960s, we can see Radha in the old, original structure of the hotel. After the fire and multiple renovations, the characteristic dome has changed to a newer structure....
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