Yaadon Ki Baaraat

Yaadon Ki Baaraat
Poster
Directed byNasir Hussain
Written bySalim–Javed
Nasir Hussain
Produced byNasir Hussain
StarringDharmendra
Vijay Arora
Tariq Khan
Zeenat Aman
Neetu Singh
Ajit
Captain Raju
CinematographyMunir Khan
Edited byBabu Lavande
Gurudutt Shirali
Music byR. D. Burman
Production
company
Nasir Hussain Films
Distributed byNasir Hussain Films
United Producers
Release date
  • 9 November 1973 (1973-11-09)
Running time
168 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹55 million ($7.1 million)

Yaadon Ki Baaraat (transl.Procession of Memories) is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language masala film, directed by Nasir Hussain and written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar). It featured an ensemble cast, starring Dharmendra, Vijay Arora, Tariq Khan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh, Ajit and Captain Raju.

The film was influential in the history of Indian cinema. It has been widely identified as the first masala film, combining elements of the action, drama, romance, musical, crime and thriller genres. Masala films went on to become the most popular genre of Indian cinema, and Yaadon Ki Baaraat has thus been identified as "the first" quintessentially "Bollywood film." It also launched the careers of several actors, as the commercial breakthrough Hindi film for Zeenat Aman and Neetu Singh, who became leading actresses of the 1970s, and as the debut film for Nasir Hussain's nephews Tariq Khan and Aamir Khan, the latter a child actor who grew up to be one of the biggest movie stars in Hindi cinema.

It is still remembered fondly for its soundtrack, composed by music director R.D. Burman. The film was later remade in Telugu as Annadammula Anubandham, in Tamil as Naalai Namadhe and in Malayalam as Himam.