Chanda Aur Bijli

A beautiful street dancer Bijli is in a gang of petty thieves. Sachin is the heir to a heritage household but due to the death of his parents lands up in an orphanage. In the orphanage when the children are ill -treated by the manager, his royal blood automatically singles him out to take cudgels for the rest of the children. He dares to challenge the Orphanage manager and is severely beaten and reprimanded. Meanwhile, the servant woman (midwife) who had helped to deliver him, and who stole his mother's bangles and other proof of his royal lineage is on her death bed. She summons the orphanage manager and gives him the proof of Chanda's birth to atone for her sins before dying. But the orphanage manager plays mischief and along with the adopted son of the royal grandparents plans to eliminate Chanda. Chanda runs away and joins a petty thieves' gang by chance, but is unable to adapt himself to their ways. Soon during a robbery escapade in his own home he ends up in his original house. There, through many twists and turns of destiny he is able to contact his real grandparents, and also reform the gang of small time thieves.

• Sanjeev Kumar as Sheroo
• Padmini as Bijli
• Jeevan as Bhagatram
• Bipin Gupta as Rajeshwarnath
• Pratima Devi as Mrs. Rajeshwarnath
• Bela Bose as Gauri
• Randhir as Dharamdas
• Ulhas as Ghanshyam
• Jankidas as Dindayal
• Mohan Choti as Kalidas
• Mehmood Jr. as Tingu
• Keshto Mukherjee as Raju
• Sachin as Chanda

The film's music was composed by Shankar–Jaikishan.

Neeraj was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist in 1969 for "Ram Krishna Hari" [1]

• Chanda Aur Bijli at IMDb