Bollywood family drama, Arpan, directed by J. Om Prakash was released on April 1, 1983. The movie starred Jeetendra and Reena Roy in lead roles while Parveen Babi, Raj Babbar, Sulochana Latkar, Vikas Anand, Sujit Kumar, Tom Alter and Sudhir Dalvi also played significant characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was composed by none other than veteran music director duo Laxmikant Pyarelal while the songs were sung by Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

Young and handsome, Anil Verma ( Jeetendra ) is in love with a beautiful girl named Shoba ( Reena Roy ) and wants to get married with her soon. Anil family comprises of his mother, ( Dina Pathak ) and his younger sister, Vinnie ( Preeti Sapru ). Vinnie is in love with a guy named Rakesh ( Shashi Puri ), who works in the same office where Shobha is working. The office is owned by the wealthy businessman named J.K.( Raj Babbar ). Anil goes abroad for bettering his future and promise Shobha to return soon.

Anil returns after the gap of one year. He learns that Vinnie and Rakesh are married now. But he get shocked to know that Shobha is now married to J.K.. Anil does not give more importance to finding the reason for which Shoba marries J. K.. Heartbroken, Anil also get married to another girl named Sona ( Parveen Babi ). After few days of marraige, Sona learsn about Anil previous love life and decides to find out the girl with whom he was in love before their marraige.

The evergreen songs of the movie are:

1. Likhne waale ne likh daale
2. Pardes jake pardesia
3. Tauba kaise hain nadaan
4. Nain mele uske baad
5. Mohabbat ab tijarat ban gayi hai