Neel Kamal (1968 film)

Sita and her friends go on a trip. Sita sleepwalks and when she is about to be hit by a train on the railway track, Ram saves her. Impressed, her father decides to get her married to him. After marriage, Sita discovers that her sleepwalking is not the usual kind, as it takes her to the story of her past life - Chitrasen, an artisan, was in love with the princess Neel Kamal (Sita in her past life). The king rejects his alliance for his daughter and buries him alive. Chitrasen's love for Neel Kamal remained immortal and his soul survives for centuries to meet her. Sita is invited to Chitrasen's place by a song, where she sleepwalks to every night. Her mother-in-law, a very cross person, believes that Sita is having an affair and gives her a tough time at home along with her sister-in-law Chanchal. Her only supporter in the house is Giridhar Chanchal's husband, who is a ghar jamai who saves her from committing suicide with the help of a pujari (David). Sita's father also comes in search of SIta at Ram's house to whom he clarified her sickness of sleepwalking several times earlier. Now the family prepares for a second marriage of Ram after Girdhar informs them that Sita is dead, but Giridhar secretly informs Ram that Sita is alive and now pregnant. One night while traveling by train, she stops the train by pulling the chain at the same Chitrapur station. Sita reaches Chitrasen's place and they have a brief past conversation with his immortal soul. Finally, Chitrasen's soul becomes free and Sita falling unconscious. Ram rescues her and they live happily ever after.

• Waheeda Rehman as Rajkumari Neel Kamal / Sita
• Manoj Kumar as Ram
• Raaj Kumar as Chitrasen
• Lalita Pawar as Thakurain
• Mehmood as Girdhar Gopal Agarwal
• Shashikala as Chanchal
• Balraj Sahni as Mr. Raichand
• Ramayan Tiwari
• P. Jairaj
• David Abraham as Guruji
• Murad as Emperor
• Chhaya
• Nasreen
• Nandini
• Gopal Sehgal
• Jagdish Raj
• Ruby Mayer as Dean of the girls' college
• Mumtaz Begum
• Sheela R.
• Sophia
• Shenaaz
• Apsara
• Abhimanyu Sharma
• Rajan Kapoor
• Nazir Kashmiri
• V.P. Verma
• Dev Chand
• Shribhagwan
• Bhushan Tiwari
• Vijay Maria

The soundtrack of Neel Kamal were composed by Ravi Shankar Sharma and lyrics were provided by Sahir Ludhianvi. The soundtrack is widely notable for the song, "Baabul Ki Duaayein Leti Jaa", which became an instant hit and would often be dubbed in many South Asian wedding videos from the 1970s to the '90s, during the actual bidaai ritual (the departure of the bride from her parental house) by videographers. As the song was overtly sentimental, its use as a bidaai soundtrack eventually phased out from the mid-90's and was replaced by subtler modern soundtracks.

The song was sung by Mohammed Rafi.

Won

• Best Actress – Waheeda Rehman

Nominated

• Best Film
• Best Director – Ram Maheshwari
• Best Supporting Actor – Raaj Kumar
• Best Supporting Actress – Shashikala
• Best Comedian – Mehmood
• Best Male Playback Singer – Mohammad Rafi for "Baabul Ki Duaayein Leti Jaa"
• Best Story – Gulshan Nanda

• Neel Kamal at IMDb