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This film is a poignant love story enhanced with beautiful lilting music. The music of this film was a rage and its title son topped the yearly Binaca Geet Mala. |
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| It was on a particular day in the college class room that they confronted each other. Arun, the only son of a Barrister father, the darling of all the male students - himself proud and over-confident, for the first time in his life, stood second in the Terminal Examination to Lily Fernandes, a shy, simple, modest girl - the daughter of an ordinary nurse in a private Nursing Home. The shock of the defeat was too much for Arun, and he took up a challenge -- even nursed a personal vendetta -- to bring down the growing popularity of Lily in the college. Lily, however, bore no malice against him, even tolerated all the sarcasm and nasty pranks of the close chums of Arun.
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As time went on, they gradually discovered the basic qualities of their opponents, even one became the admirer of the other. They spent their off-days in outings in beautiful natural surroundings, singing and talking to each other.
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Lily's mother was the first person to notice that a deep love had developed between her daughter and Arun. She felt worried, because however good and deserving Arun may be as the prospective life-partner of her daughter, yet all the differences in social status, riches and religious faith could not possibly be bridged. |
One day, to her surprise, Arun's father himself walked in to their simple house with a proposal for marriage between Arun and Lily. The happiness of the young lovers knew no bounds. |
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But when everything was nicely set up for a happy ending, suddenly, Lily fell ill. Blood culture proved the case to be Leukemia. No efforts were spared to arrest the disease, and save the poor girl. Arun and Lily met and behaved with each other as if nothing has gone wrong, as if the world is as beautiful as it was all the time, as if they are to wait only a few days for her recovery and their happy union. |
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| But all efforts failed. On a fateful evening, when the orange tint of the setting sun had spread its magic spell upon everything around, Lily Fernandes, a dreamy girl, who dreamt of nothing but goodness and innocent joys of life, breathed her last in the arms of her equally young and innocent lover. Before her death, she made him promise that he will go further up and up in life, so that from some other world the soul of Lily will eternally find peace and completion of her deepest love for her dearest one on earth! |
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An unforgettable experience of love immortal - ASSAM EXPRESS |
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Tarachand Barjatya has been instrumental in bringing to the crass world of Hindi cinema, films that are modest in budget and clean in content. Ankhiyon... is scruplously scrubbed of all obscene innuendos...An excellent actress, Ranjeeta infuses much vivacity to the film, with her bubbling effervescence. Her tragic moments are superbly underplayed, lending great poignancy to her condition...Like all Barjatya's earlier films, Ankhiyon... is incomparably superior to debilitated efforts that are incessantly churned out by the other studios - SUNDAY STANDARD |
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