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Aashirwad is a film of genre Drama directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee with Ashok Kumar

Aashirwad (1968)

Aashirwad
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Length 2h26
Genres Drama
Rating75% 3.7669653.7669653.7669653.7669653.766965

Aashirwad is a 1968 Bollywood film, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film stars Ashok Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar.

The film is notable for its inclusion of a rap-like song performed by Ashok Kumar, "Rail Gaadi".

Synopsis

Jogi Thakur (Ashok Kumar) is a simple man of high principles. He is a resident son-in-law who, with his wife, has been bequeathed property and estates by his father-in-law. He breaks his marriage to an autocratic landlady (Veena) when he finds out that on her wife's order, the chief accountant of the estate has cunningly obtained his signatures on an order that the houses of the poor be burnt. He leaves home, vowing never to return as long as he lives, leaving his daughter Neena behind. He moves to Mumbai where he makes a living by entertaining children in a park(the famous song "Rail Gaadi", said to be India's first rap number). He is specially fond of a girl whose name, incidentally, is Neena (played by baby Sarika), too. Unfortunately the girl takes ill and dies.

Actors

Ashok Kumar

(Shivnath 'Joggi Thakur' Choudhary)Sanjeev Kumar

(Doctor Biren)Sumita Sanyal

(Neena 'Bittu' S. Choudhary)Suchitra Sen
Sarika

(Neena)
And :
Abhi Bhattacharya
Bipin Gupta
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