''Jeevan Jyoti'' is a 1976

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directed by Murugan Kumaran under

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. It stars Vijay Arora,

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in lead roles. It is a remake of Telugu film

Muthyala Muggu ''Mutyala Muggu'' () is a 1975 Indian Telugu-language drama film adaptation of Uttara Ramayana from the writer-director duo of Ramana and Bapu. The film stars Sangeeta, Sreedhar, Kanta Rao, Rao Gopal Rao, Mukkamala, Allu Ramalingaiah and N ...

(1975).

Plot

Shekhar (Vijay Arora) goes to his friends sister Laxmi's (Bindiya Goswami) marriage with Mohan. During the marriage the police arrests Mohan. People begin to say who will marry Laxmi now. Shekhar marries Laxmi. They are happy and Laxmi becomes expecting mother. When Mohan returns, he wants to take revenge. Hence he sneaks into Laxmi's bedroom in absence of Shekhar and Laxmi is sleeping. When Shekhar enters the room, he finds Mohan in Laxmi's room. He assumes that Laxmi and Mohan were in a relationship and he was the one who came in between. He asks Laxmi to leave his house. Laxmi leaves and then she gives birth to twins -Shanti and Ramu. Shanti and Ramu then create a plan to bring their parents together again. Their plan is successful and Mohan admits his crime. Shekhar realizes that Laxmi is pure and innocent, and he accepts her. Shekhar, Laxmi, Shanti and Ramu are together and happy in the end.

Cast

* Vijay Arora as Shekhar *

as Laxmi * Rakesh Pandey as Harbans * A. K. Hangal as Raja Kamlakar *

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as Pratima *

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as Raja's Munim * Sudhir as Mohan *

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as Somnath *

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as Gopaldas Chaurasia * Dulari as Ratna Chaurasia * Bhanumathi as Lata Chaurasia *

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as Sudha *

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as Bhagwan Shri Hanuman * Ritu Kamal as Sundari * Baby Mun Mun as Shanti *

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as Ramu

Crew

*''Director'' - Murugan Kumaran *''Story'' -

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*''Producer'' - M. Saravanan, M. Balasubramanian,

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*''Editor'' - R. G. Gope *''Production Company'' - A. V. M. Productions *''Distributors'' -

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*''Music Director'' -

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*''Lyrics'' - Anand Bakshi *''Playback Singers'' -

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, Kishore Kumar,

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, P. B. Sreenivas

Music

Music:

Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This in ...

Lyricist: Anand Bakshi

External links

* 1976 films 1970s Hindi-language films 1976 drama films Hindi remakes of Telugu films Films scored by Salil Chowdhury {{1970s-Hindi-film-stub