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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai<br />
| image = Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai.jpg<br />
| image_size = <br />
| caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
| native_name = {{film name|Hindi|दिल अपना और प्रीत पराई}}<br />
| director = [[Kishore Sahu]]<br />
| producer = [[Kamal Amrohi]]<br />
| writer = Kishore Sahu<br />Madhusudan (supervising writer)<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Raaj Kumar]]<br />[[Meena Kumari]]<br />[[Nadira (actress)|Nadira]]<br />
| music = [[Shankar Jaikishan]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Josef Wirsching]]<br />
| studio = Mahal Pictures<br />
| editing = Kantilal B. Shukla<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|1960|3|4|df=yes}}<ref name="Release Date">{{cite web |title= Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai|website=Times of India |url= https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-details/dil-apna-aur-preet-parai/movieshow/61346710.cms |accessdate= 2018-07-02}}</ref><br />
| runtime = 155 min<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = {{INRConvert|90|l|year=1960}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai''''' ({{trans|My Heart is Mine and My Love is for Someone Else's}}) is a [[Bollywood films of 1960|1960]] Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[Romance film#Subgenres|romantic drama]] film, produced by S. A. Bagar. It was written and directed by [[Kishore Sahu]]. The film stars [[Raaj Kumar]], [[Meena Kumari]] and [[Nadira (actress)|Nadira]] as leads. The film tells the story of a surgeon who is obligated to marry the daughter of a family friend, while he is in love with a colleague nurse, played by Meena Kumari. It is one of the noted acting performances of lead actress Meena Kumari's career.<ref name="Mahmood1974">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hH43AAAAIAAJ |title=The kaleidoscope of Indian cinema |last=Mahmood |first=Hameeduddin |publisher=Affiliated East-West Press |year=1974 |page=213}}</ref><br />
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The film's music is by [[Shankar Jaikishan]], and features a hit song "Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh", sung by [[Lata Mangeshkar]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://onrecord.jiosaavn.com/the-ultimate-lata-mangeshkar-hit-songs-list/ |title=The Ultimate Lata Mangeshkar Hit Songs List |last=Mahajan |first=Mradula |date=6 September 2018 |website=Onrecord |publisher=[[JioSaavn]] |access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> At the [[8th Filmfare Awards|1961 Filmfare Awards]] it created an upset by beating the popular musical epic, ''[[Mughal-e-Azam]]'' of Naushad, for the [[Filmfare Award for Best Music Director|Best Music Director]] category.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Bharatan |first=Raju |date=25 December 1988 |title=The Last Mughal |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100821/page/n1785 |magazine=[[The Illustrated Weekly of India]] |volume=109 |pages=50–53}}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Sushil Verma ([[Raaj Kumar]]) is a surgeon in the [[Shimla]] Hospital. He lives on the hospital grounds in a doctor's house with his aging mother and younger sister Munni (Kumari Naaz). After Sushil's father died, his father's close friend paid Sushil's medical school fees, thus creating a debt that Sushil's mother feels needs to be fulfilled. Karuna ([[Meena Kumari]]) is a nurse who comes to Shimla Hospital and first encounters Sushil during an emergency surgery. Both are clearly besotted with each other, but keep their feelings restrained.<br />
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By chance, on a nurses' beach day trip, Karuna meets Munni, who injures herself whilst playing. She takes Munni back to her house, not knowing that she is Dr. Verma's sister, and the house she is visiting belongs to him. She dresses Munni's wounds, sees how much work needs to be done in the house, and the fact that his mother is too ill to attend to household tasks. She immediately steps in and fulfills the duties of the housewife; cooking, cleaning and taking care of everyone. Sushil comes home to see this and falls even more in love.<br />
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However, later on, his mother organises a trip to Kashmir for the whole family, and conveniently guilt-trips Sushil into marrying Kusum ([[Nadira (actress)|Nadira]]), the daughter of the man who paid for his medical school fees.<br />
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They come back to Shimla, and Karuna is devastated when she finds this out. Although she manages to conceal this for a while, situations keep arising and Kusum soon gets jealous of Sushil's preference for Karuna, and her perceived ill-treatment. Kusum manipulates and mistreats her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, until Sushil orders her out of the house. She goes back to Kashmir.<br />
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Dr. Verma's mother then realises her mistake, that she should have gotten him married to Karuna.<br />
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To avoid scandal, Karuna moves to another hospital. But Kusum seeks to enact revenge on her. Dr. Verma finds this out and tries to beat Kusum to Karuna, which leads to a clifftop high speed car chase, resulting in Kusum's death. The film concludes with the reunion of Karuna and Sushil.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
*[[Raaj Kumar]] <small>as</small> Dr. Sushil K. Verma<br />
*[[Meena Kumari]] <small>as</small> Karuna<br />
*[[Nadira (actress)|Nadira]] <small>as</small> Kusum<br />
*[[Ruby Myers]] <small>as</small> Head Nurse<br />
*[[Tun Tun]] <small>as</small> Haseena<br />
*[[Om Prakash]] <small>as</small> Girdhari<br />
*[[Shammi (actress)|Shammi]] <small>as</small> Sheela<br />
*[[Kumari Naaz]] <small>as</small> Munni<br />
*Pratima Devi <small>as</small> Mrs. K. Verma (as Protima Devi)<br />
*Edwina <small>as</small> Nurse Rosie<br />
*[[Helen (actress)|Helen]] <small>as</small> [[item number|Cabaret Dancer]]<br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
{{Track listing<br />
| collapsed =<br />
| headline =<br />
| extra_column = Singer(s)<br />
| all_writing =<br />
| all_lyrics =<br />
| all_music = [[Shankar Jaikishan]]<br />
| title1 = Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh<br />
| lyrics1 = [[Shailendra (lyricist)|Shailendra]]<br />
| extra1 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
| title2 = Andaz Mera Mastana<br />
| lyrics2 = Shailendra<br />
| extra2 = Lata Mangeshkar<br />
| title3 = Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai<br />
| lyrics3 = Shailendra<br />
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar<br />
| title4 = Itni Badi Mehfil<br />
| lyrics4 = [[Hasrat Jaipuri]]<br />
| extra4 = [[Asha Bhosle]]<br />
| title5 = Jane Kahan Gai<br />
| lyrics5 = Shailendra<br />
| extra5 = [[Mohammed Rafi]]<br />
| title6 = Mera Dil Ab Tera Ho Sajna<br />
| lyrics6 = Shailendra<br />
| extra6 = Lata Mangeshkar<br />
| title7 = Sheesha-E-Dil Itna Na Uchhalo<br />
| lyrics7 = Hasrat Jaipuri<br />
| extra7 = Lata Mangeshkar<br />
}}<br />
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== Awards ==<br />
*1961 [[Filmfare Best Music Director Award]] for [[Shankar Jaikishan]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*''[[Armaan (2003 film)]]''<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{IMDb title|0053767|Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai}}<br />
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{{Kishore Sahu}}<br />
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[[Category:1960 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1960s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Shankar Jaikishan]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Himachal Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Kishore Sahu]]<br />
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]<br />
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