Film: Satyam Shivam Sundaram

The film was produced and directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Jainendra Jain, starring Shashi Kapoor and Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure as Young Rupa, Kanhaiyalal as Pandit Shyam Sunder, village priest,

• A. K. Hangal as Bansi, Rupa's uncle
• Hari Shivdasani as Chief Engineer
• David Abraham Cheulkar as Bade Babu
• Leela Chitnis as Bade Babu's wife
• Vishwa Mehra as Jai Singh
• Sheetal as Champa
• Monika as Rupa's friend
• Subroto Mahapatra as Shastry, Rupa's prospective father-in-law
• Javed Khan as Shastry's son
• Tun Tun

Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja

Raj Kapoor is a great director, with movies like Sangam and Awara under his rather hefty belt, so one would expect that when he envisions a theme portraying inner beauty versus physical disfigurement, he will make something uniquely spiritual. But alas, that is not true about this rather personal cinema, made in a very sexually exploitative mode, where the pastoral beauty of lush Indian landscape is wasted with a brilliant soundtrack by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Lata Mangeshkar on a confounding, ludicrous script with flawed direction, which makes some scenes inadvertently hilarious.

Zeenat Aman plays Roopa, the unfortunate daughter of a village temple priest, who is blessed with the voice of an angel but has a semi-scarred face, which she sensibly covers with her sari....