Bollywood musical mystery thriller, Anita, directed by Raj Khosla and written by Chandrakant was released in the year 1967. The movie starred Manoj Kumar and Sadhana Shivdasani in lead roles while Chand usmani, Helen, Sajjan, Madhumati, Birbal, I. S. Johar and Dhumal also played important characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by none other than well known veteran music director duo Laxmikant Pyarelal while the songs were crooned by Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar etc.

Young and handsome, Neeraj ( Manoj Kumar ) come across a beautiful girl named Anita ( Sadhana Shivdasani ) and falls in love with her. After some intial fights, Anita too falls in love with him. They both decides to get married to each other. Anita then introduces Neeraj to her father, who straightaway rejects him. Anita’s father wants her to get married with a wealthy guy named Anil Sharma. Anita deicdes to go with her father decision and get married to Anil. Neeraj gets heartbroken with this news and re locate to another town.

After few months, Neeraj gets the news of Anita’s death. But he get shocked to see a women resembling Anita as a dancer in a hotel. Neeraj goes to meet her but she refuse to recognize him. Neeraj then meets with another women, who also resembles Anita, living in an ashram. She also refuse to recognize Neeraj. Neeraj then decides to reval about the truth behind Anita’s death.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Tum bin jeevan
2. Gore gore chand se
3. Pichware buddha khansta
4. Samne mere sanwariya
5. Karib aai nazar