Aandhiyan (1952), the third film produced by the fabled Navketan banner set up by Dev Anand and his elder brother Chetan Anand in the late 1940s, was directed by the latter with the former playing the male lead opposite his future wife Kalpana Kartik. The plot of the film centred on a lawyer and his relationship with the daughter of a debt-ridden man who is pressurised by a manipulative creditor to give the girl's hand in marriage to him. Aandhiyan is particularly noteworthy for launching classical music doyen Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's career as a composer for films. The maestro subsequently scored the music for films like Ritwik Ghatak's Ajantrik, Satyajit Ray's Devi, Tapan Sinha's Jhinder Bandi and Kshudita Pashan and James Ivory's The Householder. On the music of Aandhiyan, the Ustad worked with sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar and flautist Pandit Pannalal Ghosh, both of whom were disciples of his father, Ustad Allaudin Khan of the Maihar gharana.