Hindi Mere Apne (1971)

Mere Apne is an Indian Hindi movie written and directed by Gulzar produced by Romu, Raj, and N. C. Sippy. It was Gulzar’s first directorial venture and was almost a frame by frame remake of the National Award-winning Bengali film Apanjan, which was directed by Tapan Sinha. This was the first movie of Vinod Khanna as Hero. This was also the debut movie of Danny. The movie features Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna, and Shatrughan Sinha in lead roles along with Deven Verma, Paintal, Asit Sen, Asrani, Danny Denzongpa, Keshto Mukherjee, A. K. Hangal, Dinesh Thakur, Mehmood, and Yogeeta Bali. The music is composed by Salil Choudhury. The movie songs are sung by Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, and Manna Dey. It was released on 10 September 1971.