Anurodh

Anurodh
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Directed by	Shakti Samanta Assistant Director: Kapil Dev Prabhat Roy Achal Kapoor Jyoti Prasad Roy
Written by	Dialogues: Gauri Prasanna Mazumder Dialogues: Din Dayal Sharma Screenplay: Din Dayal Sharma
Starring	Rajesh Khanna Simple Kapadia Vinod Mehra Ashok Kumar Nirupa Roy Asrani Preeti Ganguly Dina Pathak Utpal Dutt
Music by	Laxmikant Pyarelal Anand Bakshi (lyrics)
Cinematography	Aloke Dasgupta
Edited by	Bijoy Chowdhary
Production company	Samanta Enterprises
Release date	February 1977 (1977-02)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Anurodh (English : Request) is a 1977 Hindi musical drama film, based on the 1963 Bengali film Deya Neya, produced by Girija Samanta and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Rita Bhaduri, Ashok Kumar, Asrani, Asit Sen Utpal Dutt and Nirupa Roy. The music of the film is by Laxmikant Pyarelal.The movie revolves around a rich city boy (played by Khanna), who aspires to be a musician against his father's wishes and assumes a different identity to sing for a radio station, while his songs are written by a poor friend (played by Mehra)

Pyarelal quoted in an interview "Rajesh Khanna had great interest in music and a terrific sense of melody too. His music is dominated by Pancham (R.D.Burman) and us and we accepted Shakti Samanta’s Anurodh only because Rajesh Khanna had had some misunderstanding with Pancham then and did not want to work with him." Director Shakti Samanta said that although the film had an "interesting story", he felt that audiences didn't want to accept the leading man, Rajesh Khanna, doing romantic scenes with his real-life wife Dimple Kapadia's sister Simple Kapadia and this is the reason this film was just a superhit otherwise it would have been a bigger blockbuster.

Arun (Rajesh Khanna) was the only son of a rich businessman Mr. Chaudhury. He was an upcoming singer, sings in local radio, mostly the songs written by his friend Srikant (Vinod Mehra). His father wants him to look after their family business and thinks singing is not the kind of job for people of their status. This always leads to friction between father and son. On the other end, Srikant leads a very poor lifestyle along with his widowed mother. He earns living by writing songs and articles. Arun frequently helps them with money as Srikant becomes chronically ill and couldn't work outside.