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 Title
Aasha
Cast Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Rameshwari, Girish Karnad
Director J.Om Prakash
Genre Drama
Year 1980
This could sum up the life of Aasha, a crooner who entertained the whole world,
not ever allowing her audience to have ever seen a glimpse of her own yearnings
and longings. She meets Deepak a truck driver three times, first at the roadside
restaurant and discovers that he possesses a promising, melodious voice that
tugs at her own heart strings. Second time he meets again at Kashmir, but
shortly Deepak is married to Mala. Soon after their marriage Deepak goes South
for long tour and while returning there is an accident to his truck. The news of
his death reaches his newly-wed wife and she jumps in a river to end her life,
but she is rescued by a sculptor. Deepak however is not dead, but he is shocked
to know that his wife had committed suicide, and both of them believing the
other to be dead. Mala loses her eyesight in the accident but a new light in the
shape of her bouncing daughter who is born to her. Meanwhile, Deepak meets Aasha
again, now that he is lonely and heartbroken, Aasha finds in him a willing
object of her love, she persuades him to make use of his golden voice and with
her inspiration, he turns into a great singer with wealth and fame. They decide
to marry, but destiny had other plans for all of them. The child Deepmala won
the heart of Aasha and she paid for successful eye operation of her mother. And
when Deepak invited the child Deepmala to bring her mother to attend his wedding
to Aasha, little did he know that he was inviting his first wife for his second
marriage.
   
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