| Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai | |
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| Hindi | दिल अपना और प्रीत पराई |
| Directed by | Kishore Sahu |
| Written by | Kishore Sahu Madhusudan (supervising writer) |
| Produced by | Kamal Amrohi |
| Starring | Raaj Kumar Meena Kumari Nadira |
| Cinematography | Josef Wirsching |
| Edited by | Kantilal B. Shukla |
| Music by | Shankar Jaikishan |
Production company | Mahal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 155 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹90 lakh (equivalent to ₹81 crore or US$9.7 million in 2023) |
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (transl. My Heart is Mine and My Love is for Someone Else's) is a 1960 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film, produced by S. A. Bagar. It was written and directed by Kishore Sahu. The film stars Raaj Kumar, Meena Kumari and Nadira as leads. The film tells the story of a surgeon who is obligated to marry the daughter of a family friend, while he is in love with a colleague nurse, played by Meena Kumari. It is one of the noted acting performances of lead actress Meena Kumari's career.[2]
The film's music is by Shankar Jaikishan, and features a hit song, "Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh". At the 1961 Filmfare Awards it created an upset by beating the popular musical epic, Mughal-e-Azam of Naushad, for the Best Music Director category.[3]
- ^ "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai". Times of India. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ Mahmood, Hameeduddin (1974). The kaleidoscope of Indian cinema. Affiliated East-West Press. p. 213.
- ^ Bharatan, Raju (25 December 1988). "The Last Mughal". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 109. pp. 50–53.