Love in Simla

After the untimely death of her father and step-mother, Sonia is orphaned and lives with her aunt and paternal uncle (General and Mrs. Rajpal Singh). Sonia is plain-looking, like her real mother, and often invites unappreciative taunts and critical remarks from her aunt and cousin, Sheela. Sheela has a boyfriend, Dev Kumar Mehra, and she plans to marry him. Fed-up with hearing frequent taunts and adverse remarks about her plain-looks, Sonia challenges Sheela that she will make Dev fall in love with her. Lyrics of all songs were written by Rajendra Krishan. In India, was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1960. It grossed 1.7 in 1960. In the , the film was released in 1963 and came third place on the year’s . The film drew a Soviet box office audience of 35 million viewers, making it one of the top 20 most successful Indian films in the Soviet Union. Love in Simla had 2 sequels thus forming a trilogy. The first one was starring Mukherjee and in the lead roles and was released in 1966 and the second one was starring Mukherjee and which released in 2013 due to going over the budget.