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I watched this movie after so many years that I had quite forgotten that I had seen it before. However, I enjoyed it as if I was watching it for the first time.

The storyline is simple. Dr.Anand (Manoj Kumar) is driving home one rain-washed night when he spots a young woman (Sadhana) standing right in the middle of a deserted patch of a road. She gives very enigmatic answers to all his questions as he drives her to her destination, which turns out to be – an old graveyard. A few days later, he is informed that a sizeable estate is being bequeathed to him. But tragedy strikes when his fiancé seema (Helen) is murdered mysteriously, leaving him devastated.

As if that’s not enough, on another rain-soaked night, he is called away to attend to a patient in a dilapidated mansion. The patient turns out to be the same mystery girl but she is dead before he can attend to her. What’s more, once outside the mansion, he finds a police van waiting and the cops prove to him that the mansion is quite uninhabited.

Dr.Anand’s superior (K.N. Singh) is convinced that these are hallucinations brought about by stress and grief. On his mother’s suggestion, Dr.Anand decides to get married but is in for a nasty shock on his wedding night!

It isn’t very difficult for the viewer to solve this mystery – especially in this day and age when “whodunits” are made of complex plots. The movie, however, has that special charm from an era gone by. The lead pair doesn’t have much scope to show off their acting prowess. But both the melodious songs – “Naina barse rimzim rimzim” and “Lag ja gale” – add heaps to the eerie storyline.

Definitely worth watching on a dark, rainy night :-)