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When the wheel of fate turns, man's destiny under-goes startling changes. One such man whose destiny under-went the most astonishing changes was Gopal (Bharat Bhooshan) a poor music-teacher of Goa, who earned his livelihood by teaching music to the children of his village.
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Though they were poor Gopal and his wife Sharda (Shalini) and their three lovely children Mala, Sushil, Geeta, faced life with integrity.
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Sharda's divine love, however always helped him forget his worries, sufferings and their constant poverty. Sharda had married Gopal for love, for his kind heart and his other fine human qualities, having rejected an offer of marriage from the mines magnate Vijay Babu (Kamal Kapoor). |
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One day Gopal leaves home to better his prospects by taking employment on board a ship. But, soon after his departure, news comes that the ship has been wrecked, and that he is reported missing.
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| Sharda tries her best to stem the onrushing tide of poverty but cannot, and soon her children are on the verge of starvation. Trapped in her own storms of agony and tortues, Sharda finally takes a brave decision -- and accepets Vijay Babu's offer to marry him. |
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| Several years pass, and we find on the shores of Africa a bearded Gopal bereft of memory, always playing with children. But one day he hears a familiar melody, a composition of his own, sung by one of his former pupils. Memory flashed back to him, and he returns to his native place in Goa. |
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Here, shock upon shock await him. He finds his home broken down and deserted. Then he learns of his wife's remarriage to Vijay Babu and finds his children grownup, rich and happy. Utterly broken-hearted. Gopal decides not to re-enter their lives but to eke out his quite and lonely existence all alone.
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But the wheel of fate turned once again. Gopal's youngest and favourite child Geeta (Farida Jalal) now grown into a comely teenager, soon befriends him, not knowing that he is her own father! One day, the old man saves Geeta from a ruffian. One thing leads to another, and soon, Sharada, learns that the strange friend of her youngest daughter's is none other than her own husband!
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Almost simultaneously, Vijay Babu learns the truth too. Instantly he decides to get rid of poor Gopal and orders him, now a workman in his mines. See "Taqdeer" to its exciting and emotional finale.
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