Asha Jyoti
| Asha Jyoti | |
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| Directed by | Dasari Narayana Rao |
| Produced by | Kovai Chezhiyan |
| Story by | Dasari Narayana Rao |
| Based on | Srivari Muchatlu (1981) |
| Starring |
Rajesh Khanna Reena Roy Rekha Asrani Madan Puri Dina Pathak Om Shivpuri Roopesh Kumar |
| Music by | Laxmikant Pyarelal |
| Edited by | B. Krishna Raju |
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130 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Asha Jyoti is a Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna, Reena Roy and Rekha. The film was directed by Dasari Narayana Rao, who had also directed Aaj Ka M.L.A. Ram Avtar with Khanna in the lead role and music was given by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The film is remake of Telugu Movie Srivari Muchatlu (1981). The film grossed 5.75 crores at the box office in 1984 and was a commercial success. It received three stars in the Bollywood guide Collections.
Ramesh Chander, a businessman, asks his son Deepak, a musician, if he would marry his childhood friend Asha, but Deepak keeps declining this idea. Deepak falls in love with one of his fans named Jyot, a dancer, and he informs his parents by telegram that he has chosen a girl. Deepak promises to pay off the debts owed by Jyoti's father. But when Deepak reaches his home in Bombay, he finds that Ramesh has committed suicide due to bankruptcy. Ramesh expresses his last wish that his second wife and her daughter be taken care of. Deepak is delayed in Bombay and is unable to return to Kashmir.
In Kashmir, the Jyot's creditor asks Jyoti's father for money and Jyoti expresses her inability to pay, so the creditor warns Jyoti's father. When Deepak does arrive at Jotyi's house, her father lies that he has married her off to the creditor. Deepak is heartbroken and returns home.
Seth Badri Prasad, a rich man and childhood friend of Ramesh, bails Deepak out from bankruptcy, gets Ramesh's creditors to not to file suit against Deepak and auction the bunglow that he would buy. Deepak feels indebted to Prasad. Badri Prasad had been forcing his friend Ramesh Chander to ask Deepak to marry Asha, daughter of Badri Prasad. After Deepak returns to Bombay, his mother suggests him that he should now get settled in his life and bring some happiness in his life and so marries Asha. During the wedding, Deepak observes a woman similar to Jyoti. Deepak searches for the Jyoti lookalike and finds the woman was Jyoti
Now Deepak knows that Jyoti was not married to Hukumchand and that her father had lied to him. Jyoti had come to Bombay in search of Deepak and tells him that she is the mother of Deepak's child. Deepak decides to end his marriage with Asha and to tell Asha the truth, but Jyoti insists that Asha would not be able to remarry as society might discard her. Jyoti asks Deepak to act as if they had never met and be a loyal husband of Asha, so that Jotyi can take care of Deepak's child.
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