It is Helen, of course, and the audience heaves a sigh of relief, a few good cabaret numbers are in offing. His 'sidekick' - OP Ralhan (Lachchu) also finds himself intrigued by Rita - a dancer. He runs into a village belle, Sharmila Tagore as Gauri and promptly falls for her. There among the hills, the hero finds amour. After all, Rajendra Kumar was Jubilee Kumar and OP Ralhan was the producer/director/writer of the movie. if the 'young' men look too old to be fresh-out-of-college-students, we are to turn a blind eye. Suddenly things are looking up and the young fellow is off to the snow capped hills (where?where?) to celebrate his newfound success with OP Ralhan as Lachchu. He is snapped up by Balraj Sahni for his 'Industries', right off the campus. Before you double up with laughter, BA in those days was equivalent to an MBA from IIMA.
Cut- and Rajendra Kumar (Raju) is a fresh graduate - BA mind you. All Bollywood movies of the late 60s and early 70s started with a widowed mother sitting by a sewing machine and talking about having raised their kids by stitching clothes, and living in genteel poverty. The movie had opened with Sulochana doing the 'kapde see see' stuff. I had missed a few reels but could recall the scenes. On Diwali, I was flipping channels and came across the movie airing on SAB, and stayed to watch. It was supposed to be uber stylish, lots of lavish sets and songs and such good stuff. My cousins were crazy about movies and I remember a lot of excitement among them for this movie. The movie came out in 1969, the IMDB informs me.
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