The man is breezily charismatic and the woman unaffectedly fetching. Both are in a corn field under a big sky. A farmer in tattered clothes hands them both corns, shakes a leg or two with them and leaves as the the lovers sing.
"Whose saga is written in your eyes?" asks the woman, Nanda.
"If you figure it out, let me know," answers the man, Dev Anand.
One yearns for charming and uncomplicated joys of romance and one unfailingly finds it in Hindi cinema. Perhaps no one does effusive, frothy and yet pristine romancing better than Dev Anand.
Since the morning I have been playing in loop this lovely song from the 1965 film 'Teen Deviyan' (Three Beauties), written by Majrooh Sultanpuri, sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar and composed by Sachin Dev Burman.
I don't know about you but nothing unlocks exultant happiness in me like a lovely Hindi cinema song. Hindi cinema audiences take such things for granted but I am sure it took some special skills for Dev Anand and Nanda to exude such lightness of romance.
There are a couple moments in the song which I find particularly charming. At cue 1.51 when Anand has stuck Nanda's stole/shawl/dupatta in his back pocket which also has a couple of corns. The other end of the dupatta is held by Nanda over her shoulder. Both are nibbling away at their corns even as they sing. Nanda then wraps the stole around Anand. Such a lovely intimate gesture of familiarity bred by love!
Another moment is at cue 3.23 when Anand flings his hat in the air and then catches it back like a frisbee.
Applause for the film's director Amarjeet, cinematographer Pratap Sinha, editor Pran Mehra and everyone else involved in the movie.