Jyoti (1981 film)

Jyothi
Directed by	Pramod Chakravarty
Produced by	Pramod Chakravarty
Written by	Vrajendra Gaur (dialogues) Anand Bakshi (lyrics)
Screenplay by	Sachin Bhaumick
Story by	Swayam Siddha
Based on	Ardhangi (1955)
Starring	Jeetendra Hema Malini
Music by	Bappi Lahiri
Cinematography	S.R.K. Murthy
Edited by	Narendra Arora
Production company	Pramod Films[1]
Release dates	6 May 1981
Running time	144 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Jyothi (English: Light) is a 1981 Bollywood, drama film produced & directed by Pramod Chakravarty on Pramod Films banner. Starring Jeetendra, Hema Malini in the lead roles and music composed by Bappi Lahiri.

The film is a remake of Telugu Movie Ardhangi (1955), starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Savitri in pivotal roles.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}Ardhangi was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of Bengali novel Swayamsiddha written by Manilal Banerjee.Swayamsiddha went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name.^[9] Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai. It was also remade in Hindi earlier as Bahurani in 1963 .The story of Swayamsiddha was also similar to the Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada by B. Puttaswamayya which was adapted into 1969 movie titled Mallammana Pavaada for which screenplay was written by P. Pullaiah based on his 1955 Telugu movie Ardhangi. The Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada also inspired the 1987 Tamil movie Enga Chinna Rasa which went on to be remade in Telugu as Abbaigaru , in Hindi as Beta , in Kannada as Annayya and in Oriya as Santan (1998).

Plot

Niranjan Pratap Singh is the stepson of a Zamindar and real son of Ranimaa Sunanda. He is also the sole heir to the property of the Zamindar, as his elder stepbrother, Govind is drug-induced to the point of senility. When Gauri opposes Niranjan's ruthlessness against fellow-villagers, the Zamindar, angered by her intrusion, complains to her dad, Vedji. The Zamindar's anger is subdued when he actually speaks to Gauri, and ends up admiring her and asking her hand in marriage for his son, Niranjan. But Sunanda will not hear of her son marrying a poor villager's daughter, and she convinces him that Gauri should get married to Govind. Although her father is opposed to his daughter marrying a senile man, Gauri accepts Govind, and marries him. She finds out that she and Govind have no status in the household, which is run on the whims and fancies of Sunanda, her maid, Chintamani, and Niranjan. Niranjan is misguided by a dancer, Mallika and Amirchand who are after his wealth. Gauri must now decide to have her own life or be chained to a senile half-child half-man.

Cast

• Jeetendra as Govind Pratap Singh
• Hema Malini as Gauri
• Ashok Kumar as Raja Saab
• Shashikala as Sunanda
• Om Shivpuri as Vedji
• Ajit as Amirchand
• Vijayendra Ghatge as Niranjan Pratap Singh
• Deven Verma as Siyaram
• Birbal as Lallu
• Viju Khote
• Aruna Irani as Mallika
• Sulochana as Daimaa
• Jayshree T. as Champa
• Padma Khanna as Chintamani

Soundtrack

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	" Angrai Leke Prem"	Lata Mangeshkar
2	"Chidiya Chon Chon"	Kishore Kumar
3	"Sooni Sej Saja Doon"	Lata Mangeshkar
4	"Sun Ri Yashoda Maiya"	Lata Mangeshkar
5	"Thoda Resham Lagta Hai"	Lata Mangeshkar

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Other versions

The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.

Year	Title	Language	Director	Cast
				Step-mother	Son	Wife
1955	Ardhangi	Telugu	P. Pullaiah	Santha Kumari	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Savitri
1956	Pennin Perumai	Tamil	P. Pullaiah	Santha Kumari	Sivaji Ganesan	Savitri
1963	Bahurani	Hindi	T. Prakash Rao	Lalita Pawar	Guru Dutt	Mala Sinha
1969	Mallammana Pavaada	Kannada	Puttanna Kanagal	Advani Lakshmi Devi	Rajkumar	B Sarojadevi
1975	Swayamsiddha	Bengali	Sushil Mukherjee		Ranjit Mallick	Mithu Mukherjee
1981	Jyothi	Hindi	Pramod Chakravorty	Shashikala	Jeetendra	Hema Malini
1987	Enga Chinna Rasa	Tamil	K. Bhagyaraj	C. R. Saraswathy	K. Bhagyaraj	Radha
1992	Beta	Hindi	Indra Kumar	Aruna Irani	Anil Kapoor	Madhuri Dixit
1993	Abbaigaru	Telugu	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Jayachitra	Venkatesh	Meena
1993	Annayya	Kannada	D. Rajendra Babu	Aruna Irani	V. Ravichandran	Madhoo
1998	Santan	Oriya		Snigdha Mohanty	Siddhanta Mahapatra	Rachana Banerjee

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