

Arzoo(1965): Bringing the Mere Mehboob pair together again, Arzoo featured Sadhana as a woman who would go to any lengths for her beloved.So when Rajendra Kumar loses a leg she offers to lose one too.Forget the story. So enamoured was director Raj Khosla of the Sadhana Mystique that he cast her once again as the ‘Kaun’ girl in Mera Saaya and Anita, with less satisfying results.Ĥ. This became the signature –image of Sadhana’s career.

Woh Kaun Thi(1964): The ethereal spirit roaming the night in a white saree singing Naina barse rimjhim rimjhim. The songs Mere mehboob tujhe meri mohabbat ki qasam and Tere pyar mein dildar added to the Sadhana Mystique.ģ. But the impact was reverberant and everlasting. Unlike Mala Sinha who played Muslim characters repeatedly Sadhana was part of only one Muslim Social. For a very long time her fans thought she was a Muslim in real life too. Playing the beauteous Husna Banu, Sadhana was every inch the veiled enigmatic beauty. Mere Mehboob(1963): Between 19 Sadhana starred in several super success such as Hum Dono, Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Raj Kumar, Woh Kaun Thi, Waqt and Arzoo. But none of these was as big a blockbuster as Mere Mehboob.Although a mediocre Muslim Social, Mere Mehboob went a long in amplifying the Sadhana Mystique. Lata Mangeshkar’s songs Ab aur na kuch bhi yaad raha,Saawan ki raaton mein, Yeh mere andhere ujale na hote seemed designed for that exquisite face.Ģ.

If you really want to see Sadhana’s true caliber as a naturalistic actress see her in Prem Patra. But the Sadhana mystique in both Parakh and Hum Dono is based on the enchanting songs( O sajana barkha bahaar, Mere Mann ke Diye, Mila Hai kissika jhumka in Parakh, Abhi na jao chhod kar and Allah tero naam in Hum Dono). Many would prefer Sadhana in Bimal Roy’s Parakh which came a year earlier and in Vijay Anand’s Hum Dono which was released during the same year as Prem Patra. Prem Patra(1962): Two years after her debut as a leading lady in the musical hit Love In Simla(directed by future husband R K Nayyar) the great Bimal Roy cast Sadhana as the simple salawar-kameez clad girl who looks after her beloved Shashi Kapoor after he loses his eyesight in an accident.
