Mera Saaya

Mera Saaya
Poster
Directed byRaj Khosla
Screenplay byG.R. Kamath
Based onPathlaag by
Raja Paranjape
Produced byPremji
StarringSadhana
Sunil Dutt
K.N. Singh
Prem Chopra
CinematographyV. Babasaheb
Edited byDas Dhaimad
Music byMadan Mohan
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (lyrics)
Release date
  • 10 June 1966 (10 June 1966)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office 35 million[1]

Mera Saaya (transl. My Shadow) is a 1966 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Raj Khosla. The music is by Madan Mohan, and lyrics are by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. The film stars Sunil Dutt and Sadhana. The film is the second of the suspense-thriller trilogy of Khosla-Sadhana partnership, the other two being Woh Kaun Thi? (1964) and Anita (1967).[2] The film became a box office success.[3] It is a remake of the 1964 Marathi film Pathlaag (The Chase).[4]

Manohar Amberkar won the Filmfare Best Sound Award.

  1. ^ "Box Office 1966". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  2. ^ "rediff.com, Movies: Classics Revisited: Mera Saaya". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Worth Their Weight in Gold!". boxofficeindia.co.in. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. ^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. British Film Institute and Oxford University Press. pp. 381–382. ISBN 0-19-563579-5.