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Aradhana

Dir.:ected by Shakti Samanta | 2h 49min | 27 Sep 1969

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Arun Varma (Rajesh Khanna) is an air force officer who falls in love with Vandana (Sharmila Tagore). They get married secretly, but Arun dies in an air crash, leaving Vandana devastated. Worse, she is pregnant. As she has not been officially married, Vandana's family disowns her. Her father dies, le..

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Sharmila Tagore

Vandhana Tripathi

Rajesh Khanna

Double Role (Arun / Suraj Prasad Saxena)

Sujit Kumar

Madan Verma

Pahari Sanyal

Gopal Tripathi

Anita Dutt

Mrs. Prasad Saxena

Abhi Bhattacharya

Ram Prasad Saxena (Man in the silhouette
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