- A review written by Shivani Gadre

  Aradhana, a 1969 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Shakti Samanta, features the notable pair of Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna. This film, initially released in Hindi and subsequently dubbed in Bengali, achieved tremendous success, resulting in two remakes: the Tamil movie "Sivagamiyin Selvan" (1974) and the Telugu film "Kannavari Kalalu" (1974). "Aradhana" emerged as a blockbuster in both India and the Soviet Union. The success of Aradhana as a golden jubilee film, signifying its remarkable run of over fifty weeks in major urban canters.   Love, sacrifice and society: Despite the film's embrace of suffocating patriarchal morality, which condemns a young woman to a lifetime of solitary devotion to her deceased fiancé and the self-effacing nurturing of the son who is essentially replica of deceased lover (husband?), ‘Aradhana’ stands out as a female-cante

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