Reshma Aur Shera is a 1971 Hindi crime drama film produced and directed by Sunil Dutt and starring Waheeda Rehman as Reshma and Sunil Dutt as Shera. It also stars Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee, Ranjeet, K.N. Singh, Jayant and Amrish Puri in supporting roles. Sunil Dutt's son Sanjay Dutt, who was 12 years at the time, appears briefly as a Qawwali singer in his first film appearance.

Reshma Aur Shera received high critical acclaim from domestic and international critics and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. It was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.It is famously known that Sunil Dutt was scared of Amitabh Bachchan's voice and his voice would be much impressive than Dutt's voice. Dutt revealed in one of his interviews that Bachchan was a new comer that time. He had a 15 page dialogue that he kept practicing on the sets. But during rehearsals, he kept mugging up his lines and forgetting a lot of words. That is when Sunil Dutt decided to scrap Amitabh's dialogues and make his character mute.

Reshma Aur Shera won 3 awards at the 19th National Film Awards. Waheeda Rehman won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her highly-acclaimed performance in the film. The film also won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Jaidev and the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for Ramachandra.

The film was a disaster which lead to Sunil Dutt's financially loss and saw downfall in his career. However, it was praised for its exquisite story of love in war time and considered as a lesser gems in Indian Cinema.