Yesteryear hit romantic bollywood movie, Jahan Ara, directed by Vinod Kumar was released in the year 1964. Themovie starred Bharat Bhushan and Mala Sinha in lead roles while Shashikala, Achala Sachdev, Aruna Irani, Prithviraj Kapoor, Farida Jalal, Chandrashekhar and Sunder also played significant characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by the well known veteran music director Madan Mohan while the songs were crooned by Mohammed Rafi, Talat mehmood, Lata mangeshkar, Suman Kalyanpur etc.

Mirza Yusuf Changezi ( Bharat Bhushan ) is living a poor lifestyle alongwith his parents in a kingdom ruled by Emperor Shah Jahan ( Prithviraj Kapoor ). He is in love with Jahan Ara ( Mala Sinha ). Jahan Ara is none other than the daughter of Emperor. Emperor keeps Jahan Ara in four walls of the palace so that no one can meet her without his permission. Specially mens are not allowed to meet her at any cost. But Jahan Ara and Mirza meets secretly and decides to get married to each other. Situatiuon gets even worsen when emperor’s wife passes away leaving behind a devastated emperor.

Jahan Ara makes promise to her mother before her death that she will take care of her father. Emperor then decides to build a memorial to his wife’s name and call it Mumtaz Mahal. Mirza on the otherhand get heartbroken with Jahan’s promise to her mother as he very well knows that Jahan Ara will never marry to him against her father’s wish now.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Phir wohi shaam