Bollywood romantic comedy, Shagird, directed by Sameer Ganguly and written by Nirmal Dey was released in the year 1967. The movie starred Joy Mukherjee and Saira banu in lead roles while I. S. Johar, Asit Sen, A. K. Hangal, Achala Sachdev, Nasir Hussain, Mac Mohan and Madan Puri also played important characters in the film. The hit melodious music of the movie was directed by none other than veteran music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal while the songs were rendered by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

The movie starts with an aged bachelor, Professor Brij Mohan Agnihotri ( I. S. Johar ), who is determined to not to get married his whole life. A young guy named Ramesh ( Joy Mukherjee ) wish to make him his mentor as he is highly impressed by him. Professor agrees to accept him as his ’shagird’. Professor goes to meet his friend in some other town and get attracted to his friend’s beautiful daughter, Poonam ( Saira Banu ). He instantly falls in love with her and decides to woo her anyhow.

He changes his appearance and tries to woo Poonam but fails miserably. He get shcoked to learn that Poonam is attracted to his Shagird, Ramesh. He then tries to learn some tricks to attract girls from Ramesh. Ramesh teach him the tricks but little does he knows is that Professor is going to play those tricks on none other than his own girlfriend, Poonam. What will happen next? Where is this story heading to?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Bade miyan deewane aise na bano
2. Duniya pagal hai ya
3. Woh hai zara khafa
4. Dil wil pyar vyar
5. Rukl ja aye hawa
6. Kanha kanha aan padi