Dillagi (1978 film)

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Dillagi
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Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Written by Basu Chatterjee
Screenplay by Basu Chatterjee,
Keka Chatterjee
Story by Bimal Kar
Produced byBikram Singh Dehal,
Kanwar Ajit Singh
Starring Dharmendra
Hema Malini
Cinematography K. K. Mahajan
Edited byV. N. Mayekar
Music by Rajesh Roshan
Yogesh (lyrics)
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)(India)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Dillagi is a 1978 romantic comedy directed by Basu Chatterjee, based on the Bengali novella "Kalidas O Chemistry" by Bimal Kar. It stars Dharmendra as Swarn Kamal - a newly appointed Sanskrit professor in a girls' college. Hema Malini is a strict Chemistry lecturer (Phoolrenu) and warden of the same college.

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Synopsis

Phoolrenu has been nicknamed "carbon dioxide" and Swarnkamal is lovingly called "jijaji" by the girls. While for Swarnkamal it is love at first sight, Phoolrenu detests him due to his style of teaching the works of Mahakavi (Great Poet) Kalidas.

From the celebrations of the festival - Holi to the annual function, all attempts of Swarnkamal to win over Phoolrenu seem to be having an opposite effect. He then visits Phoolrenu during the summer vacations at her hometown of Kashipur and finally makes some headway, but Phoolrenu wants him to approach her through a proper channel by responding to her matrimonial advertisement in a newspaper.

But confusion reigns and Phoolrenu's marriage is fixed with someone else. Swarnkamal tries to reach Kashipur and faces a number of difficulties one after the other. Meanwhile, Phoolrenu and her brother tries to think of ways to get out of the marriage agreement. In the climax, Swarnkamal somehow manages to reach the wedding ceremony but is unable to stop it as the groom's henchmen mistake his identity as someone sent by groom's girlfriend to stop the wedding. Swarnkamal watches the groom seemingly leave with Phoolrenu and returns to his sister's house, defeated. But here, it is revealed that Phool and her brother actually managed to snuck in groom's girlfriend into the wedding ceremony and now he is married to her. Phoolrenu herself is waiting for Swarnkamal at his sister's house. They decide to not rush into the wedding and Phool tells Swarnkamal that she will write to him about the actual date of the their wedding once he applies for leave in the college. As a gesture of love, she tries to copy a love letter out of a book that Swarnkamal had secretly passed on to her during Holi. On their wedding night, Swarnkamal reveals that he was the one who passed on the book to her and knows that she copied the letter from there. The couple have a laugh and the movie ends with them embracing each other, deeply in love.

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Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Yogesh; all music is composed by Rajesh Roshan.

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Baadal To Aaye"Lata Mangeshkar 
2."Rang Rejwa Tu Rang"Kishore Kumar, Suman Kalyanpur 
3."Main Kaun Sa Geet"Lata Mangeshkar 
4."Prem Hai Prem Hai"Lata Mangeshkar, Nitin Mukesh