Joshila is a 1973 Hindi-language Drama Thriller movie written by Akhtar Ul-iman, Akhtar Mirza, Gulshan Nanda and C. J. Pavri. The movie is directed by Yash Chopra and produced by Gulshan Rai under the banner of Chandivali Studio in collaboration with Filmistan Studios and Rajkamal Studios. Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captive daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself. The two of them spend beautiful moments together and finds themselves attracted to each other. Shalini wants to find out why Amar is in jail. She is told in no uncertain terms that Amar is in jail for murder - for killing the brother of his former lover, Sapna. She also found out that this is not true and would strive to the best of her merit to get Amar release from jail because she is in love with him and would like to marry him. Written by gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com. Joshila features Dev Anand in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Hema Malini, Raakhee, Pran Krishan Sikand, Bindu Desai, Madan Puri and Manmohan Krishna. The music was composed by Rahul Dev Burman along with R. D. Burman. Cinematography was done by Fali Mistry and editing by Pran Mehra. It was released on 19th October 1973. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Trimurti Films.