Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973 film)

Aa Gale Lag Jaa
Poster
Directed byManmohan Desai
Written bySmt. Jeevanprabha Desai
K. B. Pathak
Prayag Raj
Produced byA. K. Nadiadwala
StarringShashi Kapoor
Sharmila Tagore
Shatrughan Sinha
Om Prakash
CinematographyPeter Pereira
Edited byKamlakar Kamkhanis
Music byRahul Dev Burman
Production
companies
K. Asif Studios
Ranjeet Studios
Swati Studios
Distributed byA. K. Movies
Polydor
Release date
  • 16 November 1973 (1973-11-16)
Running time
149 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office3 crore (equivalent to 115 crore or US$14 million in 2023)[1]

Aa Gale Lag Jaa (transl. Come, embrace me) is a 1973 Hindi romantic film directed by Manmohan Desai, based on a story by Smt. Jeevanprabha Desai. It stars Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore and Shatrughan Sinha. The film became a box office hit and was the 10th highest grossing Hindi film of 1973.[2]

Poornima received a Filmfare nomination as Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Tera Mujhse Hai." Her nomination is the only Filmfare nomination for the film.[3] Aa Gale Lag Jaa is noted for its wonderful hit songs which had music by R.D. Burman with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi.

The film was remade in Telugu as Manchi Manushulu, in Tamil as Uthaman and in Persian as Ranande-ye-ejbari.[4] The Sinhalese movie Yali Hamuwennai directed by Sena Samarasinghe in the 1980s is said to be a direct copy of this film. The 1977 Pakistani movie Aina and the 1985 Hindi movie Pyar Jhukta Nahin were also inspired by this movie.

  1. ^ "Box Office 1973". Archived from the original on 12 February 2009.
  2. ^ "Box office 1973". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  3. ^ Dhirad, Sandeep (2006). "Filmfare Nominees and Winner" (PDF). deep750.googlepages.com. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
  4. ^ "Bollywood Films Remade in South Indian Film Industry | 2nd Edition". 3 December 2014.