Sanam is another Dev Anand and Suraiya movie made late 1940's and early 1950's when Dev Anand was an upcoming star and Suraiya was already an established actress. Meena Kumari plays a very insignificant role, in fact this is one of the movies where she was breaking into general acting role from her mythological characters. Sanam is about a love story where Jogin ( Dev Anand ) a very poor unemployed young man comes across Sadhana ( Suraiya ) in a chance encounter in a book shop. Under desperate conditions Jogin had to rob some money for his mother's treatment and got involved in an accidental homicide for which he was jailed by the court where the Judge ( K.N. Singh ) is the father of Sadhana. The story takes many twists and turn with a few very melodious songs and a dance number and eventually Jogin and Sadhana fall for each other but their proposed marriage is vehemently opposed by the father of the bride. Suraiya provided with a solid performance as the independent minded daughter and did not hesitate to argue with her father about social justice for the poor and under privileged. Gope provided good supporting role with his antics. Overall it was a good movie to watch specially Suraiya's great performance both as an actor and for singing some melodious songs with the direction of Husanlal Bhagatram. The movie was directed by Nandalal Jaswantal who also gave us the block busters like Nagin and Anarkali. I graded the movie as a seven out of ten.
