Jaaneman

The story is about twins Santo and Banto played by Hema Malini, in a double role. Santo is the alter ego of Banto. Santo is a good religious girl who comes to Mumbai in search of her sister Banto from Punjab, after her mother expires. In the backdrop is introduced Banto who has become a criminal Madam and prostitute, called Ramkali, running a crime den from her house.

She hires the taxi of Ronnie alias Dev Anand, to search for her sister's house. How Ronnie and Santo succeed in their mission is rest of the story. The film is very interesting and have some lovely songs by melody queen Lata Mangeshkar. Hema Malini does A Great Job In Double Role And Dev Anand does his part in a nice way.

Devanand seems to have taken inspiration from his 1954 landmark film "Taxidriver" for making this film. Unfortunately, this film does not deliver. Devanand, now growing old, plays his role with style and panache(though it's difficult to see him romancing a younger Hema Malini). The plot is nothing much to talk about and the action scenes are poorly choreographed(Again, Devanand was a chocolate hero in his heydays. The action scenes were less suited to him). Songs are dime a dozen and none apart from the title songs is worth listenable.

Devanand's film output decreased in quality as he headed toward the 70s and 80s and this is one example of that. Still, for Devanand fans, he still has that mannerisms which endeared him to people's hearts.

Worth watching only for Devanand.