Dil Ek Mandir

Dil Ek Mandir
Poster
Directed byC. V. Sridhar
Written byRaj Baldev Raj (dialogues)
Story byC.V. Sridhar
Based onNenjil Or Aalayam
by C. V. Sridhar
StarringRajendra Kumar
Meena Kumari
Raaj Kumar
CinematographyA. Vincent
Edited byN. M Shankar
Music byShankar Jaikishan
Release date
  • 8 March 1963 (1963-03-08)
[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office1.1 crore (equivalent to 91 crore or US$11 million in 2023) [2]

Dil Ek Mandir (transl. The heart is a temple) is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by C. V. Sridhar and written by Raj Baldev Raj. The film stars Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar and Mehmood. The film's music is by Shankar Jaikishan. All the songs of this film were hits and were loved by everyone. The film was a major hit and ranked fifth on the box office collection list.[2] The film is a remake of Sridhar's Tamil film Nenjil Or Aalayam (1962),[3] and was itself remade in Pakistan as Insaniyat in 1967.

  1. ^ "Dil Ek Mandir". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Box Office 1963". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012.
  3. ^ Mahaan, Deepak (29 January 2010). "Dil Ek Mandir (1963)". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2014.