Aashirwad (आशिर्वाद) 1968

Published on May 5, 2013 in Cinema

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Director	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Writer
Producer	Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N.C. Sippy
Music Director	Vasant Desai
Cinematography	T.B. Seetaram
Film Editing	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Art Director	Ibrahim Mamoo
Camera Operator
Assistant Cameramen	Prakash Anandkar, Shashikant Kabre
Playback Singers	Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Bhosle, Hemlata, Ashok Kumar , Chorus, Ashok Kumar , Harindranath, Manna Dey

Character	Actor / Actress
Shivnath 'Joggi Thakur' Choudhary	Ashok Kumar
Doctor Biren	Sanjeev Kumar
Neena 'Bittu' S. Choudhary	Sumita Sanyal
Leela S. Choudhary	Veena
Ramdas	Sajjan
Baiju 'Dholakia	Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Rukmini	Padma Kumari
	Bipin Gupta
Mohan	S.N. Banerjee
	Amar Kumar
Shivnath's advocate	Brahm Bhardwaj
	Dev Kishan
	Ashim Kumar
	Punya Das
Young Neena 'Bittu' S. Choudhary	Baby Deepali
Neena	Sarika
	Samar Roy
	Ratan Parshuram
	Dilip
	Desai
	Leela Gandhi
	Kamaleshkumari
	Rajni Kemkar
	Vaijayanta
	Suhashini
Jailor	Abhi Bhattacharya

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Shivnath Choudhary lives a wealthy lifestyle in Chandanpur, India, along with his wife, Leela, and 8 year old daughter, Neena. He likes to mingle with poor folk much, especially Baiju, to the chagrin of his wife, who shuns them and only tolerates them as long as they continue to pay taxes. When Shivnath steals money to help dwellers, Leela has the huts burnt down, and forbids him from seeing Neena ever again. Hurt and confused, Shivnath flees to Bombay, where he befriends a man named Mahadev and makes some money entertaining young children, including a girl named Neena. When Neena passes away, Shivnath returns to Chandanpur only to find the village in ruins, and Rukmini, the daughter of Baiju, abducted and being held by Ramdas, Leela's Munim. Shivnath tracks Ramdas down, kills him, and is subsequently arrested and sentenced to prison for 14 years. He passes his time writing poems for Neena and hopes to see her one day when he gets released. Years later, he does get to see her in the ...

plot

Shivnath Choudhary lives a wealthy lifestyle in Chandanpur, India, along with his wife, Leela, and 8 year old daughter, Neena. He likes to mingle with poor folk much, especially Baiju, to the chagrin of his wife, who shuns them and only tolerates them as long as they continue to pay taxes. When Shivnath steals money to help dwellers, Leela has the huts burnt down, and forbids him from seeing Neena ever again. Hurt and confused, Shivnath flees to Bombay, where he befriends a man named Mahadev and makes some money entertaining young children, including a girl named Neena. When Neena passes away, Shivnath returns to Chandanpur only to find the village in ruins, and Rukmini, the daughter of Baiju, abducted and being held by Ramdas, Leela's Munim. Shivnath tracks Ramdas down, kills him, and is subsequently arrested and sentenced to prison for 14 years. He passes his time writing poems for Neena and hopes to see her one day when he gets released. Years later, he does get to see her in the ...