Junglee (1961) [Hindi Movie]

Junglee (1961) is a Bollywood Romantic Musicial Movie released on 31 October 1961. Subodh Mukherjee produced and directed the movie in addition to story and screenplay writing of movie.

Saira Banu made her bollywood debut from Junglee and earned Filmfare nomination for best actress. The movie has some very good and melodious songs composed by the magical musical duo Shankar-Jaikishan.

Lyrics are penned by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri. The movie was a commercial hit and remained in the Top 10 Highest Grossing Bollywood Movies of 1961.

Junglee (1961) Movie Plot

Shekhar (Shammi Kapoor) is born in a royal family that follows strict discipline like no needless talking, no extra laughing etc. These eccentric rules are created by Shekhar’s dominating Mother (Lalita Pawar) and Shekhar follows all of them giving regards to his mother.

However, his sister Mala (Shashikala) is a carefree girl and does not follow the silly rules made by her mother. She also falls in love with Jeevan (Anoop Kumar) a worker in the company owned by Shekhar. When her mother comes to know about affair of Mala she orders Shekhar to take away Mala to a distance place without knowing that she is pregnant. 

Shekhar brings Mala to Kashmir and there he meets with Rajkumari (Saira Banu) a very lively girl. He likes her but hesitate to express his feelings since she does not belong to an aristocrat family and his mother will never allow this collaboration.

However, Rajkumari’s enchanting beauty and pleasant personality compels him to express his love which was dully reciprocated by her too. But Shekhar’s mother is the biggest hurdle in his love life.