Solva Saal

Solva Saal
Directed by	Raj Khosla
Produced by	Chandrakant C Desai
Written by	Omkar Dogra Raj Khosla Bhappi Sonie
Starring	Dev Anand Waheeda Rehman
Music by	S. D. Burman
Release date	1958
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Solva Saal (English: Sixteenth Year) is a 1958 Hindi movie. Produced by Chandrakant C Desai, the film is directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. The film's music is by Sachin Dev Burman and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

This film also contains the song "Hai apna dil to awaara" picturized on Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman in the train, sung by Hemant Kumar,mouth organ by Rahul Dev Burman.

Director Raj Khosla makes a cameo appearance in the movie.

Laaj (Waheeda Rehman) whose father has arranged for her to get married to a friend's son, takes a family heirloom pearl necklaces and elopes with her beau Shyam to Bombay. On the train, a crafty journalist named Pran (Dev Anand) overhears the lovers' plans and follows them in search of a story. Then Shyam gets off the train and runs off with the necklace.

In pursuit of Shyam and to recover the necklace it's Pran to the rescue. What follows is a song-filled caper of intrigue, adventure and romance, all set in one eventful night. Laaj is helped by Pran, first on the railway track, then when Laaj, depressed tries to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. a brief interlude with the taxi drivers who put them on the track of Shyam, with twists and turns the necklace is retrieved and Laaj reaches home in time before her father wakes up and notices her absence, young Laaj is wiser by the events of the night realizes that her Beau was only interested in her wealth, She agrees to go with her Father to send him off at the airport and also to meet up there with her Fathers friend and his son to whom her father would like her to get married.

A rather subdued Laaj waiting at the airport with her Father when he notices his friend and his son coming up to meet them, he tells Laaj "there is the boy i want you to marry, i like him a lot but i want you to see him and decide" Laaj looks up towards the person her father pointed out, and suddenly she breaks out into a smile. Life is worth living after all.

All the songs were composed by Sachin Dev Burman and lyrics were penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

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