Bollywood romantic movie, Mehboob Ki Mehndi, directed by Harnam Singh Rawail was released in the year 1971. The movie starred Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandavarkar in lrad roles while Pradeep Kumar, Iftekhar, Sunder, Jagdish Raj, Gurnam Singh, Mumtaz begum, Sudhir and Rafiya Sultan also played significant characters in the film. The hit melodious romantic music of the film was directed by the veteran music director Laxmikant-Pyarelal while the songs were beautifully crooned by Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Hemlata etc. The movie was a huge box office hit of that year and won rave reviews from the audience.

The movie starts with a young and handsome guy named Yusuf ( Rajesh Khanna ), who is the son of a wealthy businessman named Nawab Safdarjung ( Iftekhar ). Nawab Safdarjung is physically handicapped persona nd is confined to a wheel chair. Yusuf’s nephew;s tutor complains about him and decides to leave that job. Yusuf arranges a new tutor named Shabana ( Leena Chandavarkar ) for his nephew. Shabana comes to live with them alongwith her grandmother. He also appoints a person named Khairuddin ( Pradeep Kumar ) for taking care of his father. however, Khairuddin has arrived there only with the intention of killing Nawab Safdarjung.

Shabana and Yusuf starts developing feeling for each other and soon learns that they are actually in love with each other. Safdarjung and Grandmother are also happy with the relationship of Yusuf and Shabana and decides to allow the two to get married. Safdrajung and Grandmother starts arranging for the marringe of Yusuf and Shabana. But just before their marraige it is revelaed that Shabana is actually the daughter of a courtesan named Najma. Now what will happen to the love story of Yusuf and Shabana?

The superhit songs of the movie are:

1. Jaane kyun log mohabbat kiya karte hain dil ke badle dard-e-dil liya karte ahin
2. Yeh jo chilman hai dushman hai hamari
3. Pasand aa gayi hai ek khafir haseena umar us ki solah baras che mahina
4. Mere deewanepa ki bhi dava nahi
5. Jhilmil taaron ki baraaton mein
6. Mehboob ki mehndi haathon mein
7. Itna to yaad hai mujhe ke unse mulaqaat hui baad mein jaane kya hua naa jaaen kya baat hui
8. Apna hai tu begana nahi maine tujhe pehchana nahi