Bollywood musical fantasy flick, Amrapali, directed by Lekh tandon and written by Arjun Dev Rashik was released in the year 1966. The movie starred Sunil Dutt and Vyjayanthimala in lead roles while Gajanan Jagirdar, Prem Nath, Madhavi, mridula rani, Bipin Gupta, K. N. Singh, Keshav Rana and Bela Bose also played significant characters in the film. The evergreen hit songs of the movie was directed by the legendary music director duo Shankar Jaikishen while the songs were crooned by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

Samraat Ajaatshatru ( Sunil Dutt ) is the king of Magadh and wants to conquest every kingdom. The only unconquered city left is that of Vaishali. Ajaatshatru decides to announce a war against Vaishali. His senapati warns him that his army is tired and need some rest before getting engaged in another war. But he refuse to listen any plea and announce the war. But as expected, he is defeated at the hands of army of Vaishali. Ajaatshatru disguise as a vaishali soldier in order to save his life.

He takes shelter in the house of a woman named Amrapali ( Vyajaynthimala ). Soon Ajaatshatru and Amrapali falls in love with each other. Ajaatshatru after recovering from his illness once agains starts to plan against Vaishali. Ajaatshatru make the most of the soldiers of Vaishali addicted to alcohol. Samrat of Vaishali reveals that Ajaatshatru is living in the house of Amrapali. What will happen now?

The songs of the movie are:

1. Jao re jogi tum
2. Neel gagan ki chhaon
3. Nacho gao nacho
4. Tumhein yaad karte
5. Tadap yeh din raat