A Life of Devotion
1969 · Movie · 169 min. · India
Dashing pilot Arun romances Vandana Tripathi, and both in love with each other, become very intimate, and as a result Vandana gets pregnant. Arun and Vandana have a quiet temple wedding ceremony, and Arun leaves to re-join his duties. Unfortunately, Arun is killed, and Vandana is unable to convince anyone of her marriage with him, and as such must re-locate to hide her shame. She gives birth to a baby boy, who she must place in an orphanage, and then adopt. Unfortunately for her, the boy, Suraj, is adopted by someone else. She manages to find out their whereabouts, and gets a job as a servant. When she is about to be molested by Shyam, a relative, Suraj witnesses this, and kills him. Vandana takes the blame for this killing and is sentenced to imprisonment, leaving her son and her life behind, for a crime she did not commit. When she returns everything has changed, and she is unable to locate the family where her son was.
Direction Shakti Samanta
Cast Rajesh Khanna · Sharmila Tagore · Sujit Kumar · Farida Jalal · Anita Dutt · Madan Puri · Ashok Kumar · Manmohan · Abhi Bhattacharya · Dulari · Asit Sen · Subhash Ghai · Master Shahid · Birbal · Sadhana Patel · Haroon · Pahadi Sanyal · C.S. Dubey · Master Puran · Brahm Bhardwaj · Ram Avtar · Uma Dutt · Krishnakant · Lalita Kumari
Soundtrack Sachin Dev Burman
Screenplay Sachin Bhowmick · Ramesh Pant
Cinematography Aloke Dasgupta
Original title Aradhana
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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