Beautiful Lakshmi in above romantic song from film 'Julie' (1975).

"My heart is beating.."

Remembered this romantic song of four decades old hit film 'Julie' & it's beautiful singer Preeti Sagar!

Filmmaker K. S. Sethumadhavan.

Maker of many landmark & award winning south Indian films..K. S. Sethumadhavan made this off-beat film 'Julie' (1975) which was a remake of his Malayalam film 'Chattakari' (1974). These women-centric films depicted restrictive social convention regarding inter-religion/caste marriage and unwed motherhood in India!

Poster of hit romantic classic film 'Julie' (1975).

Beautiful south Indian actress.. Lakshmi played the title role 'Julie' superbly and won awards! Artists with her in 'Julie' were..Vikram, Om Prakash, Nadira, Rita Bhaduri, Jalal Agha..and (that time teenager) Sridevi played the younger sister!

'Julie' was the first hit of music director Rajesh Roshan..who composed it's songs romantically like.."Dil kya kare..", "Yeh raatein nayi purani.." & title song sung by Kishor Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar!

Beautiful singer Preeti Sagar.

And the unique party song "My heart is beating.." sung by accomplished singer Preeti Sagar..who latter sung for mostly Shyam Benegal films & won awards!

After almost thirty years another Hindi film 'Julie' (2004) on social issue made by Deepak Shivdasani and Neha Dhupia acted in it!

But can not forget the 1975 classic 'Julie'..and the unique cinematic treatment given to it by Mr. Sethumadhavan..whom I met in our 'International Film Festival of India'..many years ago! And that was a good interaction!!

- Manoj Kulkarni