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  Recall the song  “Hey, Maine Kasam Li” where the hero Dev Anand on a Bicycle and the heroine  Mumtaz sitting on  the crossbar   riding across green fields  singing the song with  very little action and lots of cuddling. What a picturization. Tere Mere Sapne is one of my favorite movies. It has substance. Commercially, it did not do very well at the box office but I believe it is  one of the most sensitive Bollywood movies by Goldie Vijay Anand. He also acted in this film, he plays a doctor and gave a memorable performance.   The film is based on the novel “The Citadel” by A.J.Cronin,  published in 1937 in UK.    based on his own experiences as a doctor.  Dedicated to the medical community, the film starts off with a young, idealistic MBBS doctor Anand Kumar (Dev Anand) moving to a village near a coal mine.  He  attains his degree in medicine and re-locates to a small village to assist the local doctors there. U...

  Vijay Anand was a complete Filmmaker. He was a director, producer, editor, screenplay writer, story writer, dialogue writer, actor, and also knew choreography. In an interview, he told that he even wrote Mukhda of his songs. He was nineteen when he wrote the story of Taxi Driver(1954) along with his sister in law (Chetan Anand's wife). He was in college when he had a full screenplay of Nau Do Gyarah was ready. His  cinematic vision was indeed unique and made him stand apart from  other filmmakers. It was his vision to make a movie on a Road Trip. Probably the first Hindi film shot on a road trip from Delhi to Mumbai. He was the first filmmaker who shot a live Film Premiere as a part of his film in Kala Bazar. Music in his films remained a key feature, he was superb in picturizing of songs.  He knew songs are the glue that binds audiences to Hindi films. Close your eyes and you can see Shammi Kapoor with a scarf around his neck, singing “Deewana Mujhsa Nahin” on a c...