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This film was a big commercial success. With Jeevan Mrityu, Rajshri took the unprecedented step of releasing a commercial film as a matinee show for the 1st time. This was a trend-setting and successful move, as the film ran for a 100 weeks! |
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"Your Honour, the accused Ashok is a dangerous criminal. He is a cheat, a thief. He took unfair advantage of the responsibility and trust reposed in him and committed theft of rupees ten lakhs from the Bank. He is a blot on society and an enemy of mankind" ...these sharp accusations of the prosecutor pierce the stone-walls of the jail and echo in the ears of Ashok confined behind thick iron bars of the cell. For these seven long years the world has known him only as a cheat and a thief. |
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In fact, that was not his correct description. Once he had honour and respect. He had his mother who underwent severe hardships to educate him and make him competent and worthy. He also cherished a dream -- indeed a very sweet dream. Deepa the only daughter of his late father's close friend and a well known business magnate Babu Ram Kishore, was his class-mate in college. They always teased each other, laughed, played and dreamt of their future, blissful wedded life.
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After leaving college, Ashok was appointed Probation Officer in the Citizen Bank. He worked day and night. He had a great ambition of becoming a big man and earning an honourable place in society. His hard work was aptly rewarded. Mr. Roy, the Managing Director of the Bank, loved him as his son and the manager of the bank was also very happy and fully satisfied with his work. When the manager left the bank for better prospects, Ashok was promoted to the post of the manager in his place.
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Some of the old and scheming employees of the bank were always jealous of him and his promotion to the manager's post provoked them. His colleagues, Harish, Jagat and Ramakant, were in no mood to tolerate the injustice of a new arrival superceding their rights and sitting on their head. The three conspired and sought ways to humilate and trap Ashok. They vowed to wreck Ashok's life. |
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And, one day, when Ashok's mother had completed all arrangements for her son's betrothal to Deepa and was eagerly awaiting his return from the bank, the police stepped into the house and accused him of stealing ten lakh rupees which were missing from the bank vaults. Since he as the manager had both the keys with him, none except him could open the vaults! And thus piercing the stone walls of the prison and the thick iron bars of his cell, the judgement of the court echoed in Ashok's ears. "This court finds Ashok guilty of the offence and he is sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment." |
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Today, he has been deprived of his right to dream of a happy future. He has no right to have his own home. He has forfeited all the rights to live with honour and respect in the social world. To him, his life is a big question mark! Is this life another name for death? Why has he been punished? For whose crime? After leaving those high walls of the prison, how could he stand head-high in the society? Will he be able to wed to relieve his frail mother of all the hardships? Will he be able to wed Deepa and bring her home as his bride? Will he be able to bring back all those lost moments, days, months and years of his life? Who could answer these questions?
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