The tunes crafted by maestro RD Burman made the listeners wake up and take notice of his genius. Teesri Manzil was a musical murder mystery. They say there is no better stylist in our films than Vijay Anand and this film proves it one more time. The title song and other numbers like Yaar chulbula hai and Hum tum aur yeh sama are still popular today. Usha Khanna too made her debut as a composer with the film. Shammi Kapoor’s charm and energy and Asha Parekh’s elfin grace make us sit through the various twists and turns of the plot. The film’s plot abounds with mistaken identities, lost-and-found shenanigans and a revenge track as well. She falls for the most handsome one - Shammi Kapoor - of course but finds out he may not be what he claims to be. Asha Parekh plays a rich heiress who is wooed by three guys. The director kind of repeated the basic plot of his own debut film Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957) but added so many twists and turns to it that one doesn’t understand it completely even after repeated viewings. She was just 16 when she made her debut in this Nasir Hussain directorial opposite Shammi Kapoor. Asha Parekh was no stranger to films as she had been a child artiste in quite a few.
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