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{{Short description|1973 Indian Hindi film}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Aa Gale Lag Jaa
| image          = Aa Gale Lag Jaa.jpg
| caption        = Poster
| director       = [[Manmohan Desai]]
| producer       = A. K. Nadiadwala
| writer         = Smt. Jeevanprabha Desai<br />K. B. Pathak<br />Prayag Raj
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Shashi Kapoor]]<br />[[Sharmila Tagore]]<br />[[Shatrughan Sinha]]<br />[[Om Prakash]]
| music          = [[Rahul Dev Burman]]
| cinematography = Peter Pereira
| editing        = Kamlakar Kamkhanis
| studio         = K. Asif Studios<br />Ranjeet Studios<br />Swati Studios
| distributor    = A. K. Movies<br />Polydor
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1973|11|16}}
| runtime        = 149 minutes
| country        = [[India]]
| language       = [[Hindi]]
| gross          = {{INRConvert|3|c|year=1973}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=179&catName=MTk3Mw==|title=Box Office 1973|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212190530/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=179&catName=MTk3Mw== |archive-date=12 February 2009 }}</ref>
}}
'''''Aa Gale Lag Jaa''''' ({{translation|Come, embrace me}}) is a 1973 [[Hindi]] [[romantic film]] directed by [[Manmohan Desai]], based on a story by Smt. Jeevanprabha Desai. It stars [[Shashi Kapoor]], [[Sharmila Tagore]] and [[Shatrughan Sinha]]. The film became a box office hit and was the 10th highest grossing Hindi film of 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat%3D179%26catName%3DMTk3Mw%3D%3D |title=Box office 1973 |work=Box Office India |accessdate=12 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020131818/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=179&catName=MTk3Mw%3D%3D |archivedate=20 October 2013 }}</ref>
[[Sushma Shreshta|Poornima]] received a [[Filmfare]] nomination as Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Tera Mujhse Hai." Her nomination is the only [[Filmfare]] nomination for the film.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dhirad |first1=Sandeep |title=Filmfare Nominees and Winner |url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |website=deep750.googlepages.com |date=2006 |page=38 |access-date=17 October 2009 |archive-date=12 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612065210/http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Aa Gale Lag Jaa'' is noted for its wonderful hit songs which had music by R.D. Burman with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi.
The film was remade in Telugu as ''[[Manchi Manushulu]]'', in Tamil as ''[[Uthaman (1976 film)|Uthaman]]'' and in Persian as ''Ranande-ye-ejbari''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-popular/bollywood-films-remade-in-south-indian-film-industry-2nd-edition/ |title=Bollywood Films Remade in South Indian Film Industry &#124; 2nd Edition |date=3 December 2014}}</ref> The Sinhalese movie ''Yali Hamuwennai'' directed by Sena Samarasinghe in the 1980s is said to be a direct copy of this film. The 1977 Pakistani movie ''[[Aina (1977 film)|Aina]]'' and the 1985 Hindi movie ''[[Pyar Jhukta Nahin]]'' were also inspired by this movie.
==Plot==
Preeti is a young medico living in Mumbai along with her widower father, Heerachand. On a holiday to Simla, she meets a young man Prem, an amateur skater. He teases her initially but later falls for her. After some wooing, Preeti also reciprocates his feelings. During a trip to the hills, Preeti meets with an accident and loses consciousness. To save her from hypothermia, he gets close with her and one thing leads to another and become intimate.
Immediately after, Prem tells her that he got close only to save her and proposes to her. She gladly accepts and directs him to her father. Her father, Heerachand doesn't want her daughter to marry him and offers him money to leave her. Prem doesn't agree and leaves a letter for Preeti at her hospital explaining everything and asking her to come with him. But Heerachand meddles with the letter and rewrites it as if Prem was asking money to marry her. Preeti becomes surprised and decides to forget him and leaves for Bombay.
There, she gets engaged with Dr. Amar, her long-term friend and admirer. He leaves for Germany for higher studies and then Preeti learns of her pregnancy. Her father wants to abort the child, but she doesn't agree, at last, they decide to go to Khandala to give birth. She goes there and unbeknownst to her, Prem stays there along with his mother. Preeti gives birth to a healthy boy there. Knowing that Prem requests to take the child for himself. Heerachand agrees and gives him the child. Preeti is told that the baby was stillborn. She mourns and returns to Bombay.
Prem comes to Bombay along with his son and starts a career as a skating teacher. His son Rahul can't walk due to a polio attack. After years, Prem again meets Preeti in a function. She thinks that Prem got married and had a son. In that function, Amar announces that he wouldn't marry till he makes Rahul walk. He starts treating Rahul and meanwhile Preeti grows attached to Rahul without knowing that he is her son. She tries to talk to Prem, who then knows the truth that Heerachand changed his letter. But he keeps mum for the sake of Amar.
Amar learns the truth about Preeti and Prem and becomes troubled. He succeeds in making Rahul walk though. Prem gets mortally injured while saving Tikki (Amar's sister) from goons. He gives Rahul his wallet before going for surgery saying that his mother's photo is in there. Preeti sees it and questions her father about her child. He confesses that he hid the truth from her and Rahul was her son. Amar saves Prem and everybody reconciles. Preeti and Prem marry and stay happy with their son.
==Cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor/Actress !! Role
|-
|[[Shashi Kapoor]]||Prem
|-
|[[Sharmila Tagore]]||Preeti
|-
|[[Shatrughan Sinha]]||Dr. Amar
|-
|[[Om Prakash]]|| Heera Chand
|-
|[[Jagdeep]]||Jaggi
|-
|[[Shubha Khote]]||Nurse Julie
|-
|[[Gajanan Jagirdar]]||Dr. Saxena
|-
|[[Sulochana Latkar]]||Prem's mother
|-
|[[Roohi Berde]]||Tikki
|-
|Jillani||
|-
|[[Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1959)|Kunal Kapoor]]||Cameo as child skating
|-
|Hari Kapoor ||
|-
|Maqbool ||
|-
|Prathiba ||
|-
|Master Tito ||Nitin Dawane
|}
== Soundtrack ==
The songs of this movie were composed by legendary music composer [[Rahul Dev Burman]] and the lyrics were penned by [[Sahir Ludhianvi]]. The songs of this movie are popular till today, especially "Vaada Karo" and "Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Nata Koi" are remembered till this day. The song "Vaada Karo" is an adaptation of [[Song for my Father]] by [[Horace Silver]]. Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Nata Koi was lifted off of [[Yellow Rose of Texas]]{{dn|date=September 2024}}
* 01.   "Vaada Karo"... [[Kishore Kumar]] and [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
* 02.   "Na Koi Dil Mein Samaya"... Kishore Kumar
* 03.   "Tera Mujhse Hain Pehle Ka Nata Koi" (Duet)... Kishore Kumar and [[Sushma Shrestha]]
* 04.   "Tera Mujhse Hain Pehle Ka Nata Koi" (Male)... Kishore Kumar
* 05.   "Aye Mere Bete" (Happy)... Kishore Kumar and [[Sushma Shrestha]]
* 06.   "Aye Mere Bete" (Sad)... Kishore Kumar
==In popular culture==
=== Cult Status in [[Algeria]] ===
The film has enjoyed an unusual cult status in Algeria since its release. The cult following remains four decades since the film's release.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aminehattou.wixsite.com/janitou/resume |title=Searching for Janitou |access-date=20 July 2017 |archive-date=11 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011021128/https://aminehattou.wixsite.com/janitou/resume |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bollywood-in-the-arab-world/article18309403.ece |title=Bollywood in the Arab world |newspaper=The Hindu |date=29 April 2017 |last1=Prashad |first1=Vijay}}</ref> The movie there is called ''JANITOU''.
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0177473|title=Aa Gale Lag Jaa}}
{{Manmohan Desai}}
[[Category:1973 films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1970s Indian films]]
[[Category:1973 romantic drama films]]
[[Category:Films set in Himachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:Films scored by R. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Films directed by Manmohan Desai]]
[[Category:Hindi-language romance films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]