- Arun meets Vandana during a vacation and very soon they secretly get married. Arun is an Air Force pilot and dies in a crash, leaving pregnant Vandana heartbroken--and unable to prove that she is a married mother-to-be. As her marriage was never formalized she decides not to keep the child, and her own father dies around this time. She gives birth to her son, Suraj, and when a wealthy couple adopts him, she decides to be the nanny. All goes well until Shyam, a relative, starts to eye her, and one day he tries to molest her. Suraj stabs him, and she takes the blame and goes to jail for it. Years later when she is released from jail, the jailer takes her to his house to take care of her daughter Renu. Renu starts bonding well with Vandana and introduces her to her lover--who is none other than Suraj. The moment she sees him, she knows he is her son because he is his father's exact replica. But she decides not to reveal this truth that might embarrass Suraj.—[email protected]
- Dashing pilot Arun romances Vandana Tripathi, and both in love with each other, become very intimate, and as a result Vandana gets pregnant. Arun and Vandana have a quiet temple wedding ceremony, and Arun leaves to re-join his duties. Unfortunately, Arun is killed, and Vandana is unable to convince anyone of her marriage to him, and as such must re-locate to hide her shame. She gives birth to a baby boy, whom she must place in an orphanage, and then adopt. Unfortunately for her, the boy, Suraj, is adopted by someone else. She manages to find out their whereabouts, and gets a job as a servant. When she is about to be molested by Shyam, a relative, Suraj witnesses this, and kills him. Vandana takes the blame for this killing and is sentenced to imprisonment, leaving her son and her life behind, for a crime she did not commit. When she returns everything has changed, and she is unable to locate Suraj.—rAjOo ([email protected])
- Vandana and Arun fall in love the instant they meet. On a trip to a Shiv temple, they get married in an impromptu ceremony in front of God. A chance rainshower strands them at a remote hotel where Vandana gets pregnant. With their legal marriage just around the corner, they don't worry about the consequences of their actions, but unfortunately, Arun dies in a plane crash. Vandana chooses to have the child, Suraj, and as she promised to Arun, wants to raise him to be an Air Force pilot. Fate is cruel to Vandana, however, and the child is adopted by a wealthy family. Vandana becomes a nursemaid to stay close to Suraj. A family member tries to molest her, and in the ensuing fight, Suraj comes to protect her and kills the perpetrator. Vandana chooses a jail sentence to save Suraj, but in the course of her sentence, loses the family--and with it: Suraj. Now what will Vandana do?—bollykm
- In an idyllic hilly terrain, Indian Air Force officer Arun Varma (Rajesh Khanna) sings "Mere Sapno Ki Rani" atop an open jeep along with his co-pilot Madan (Sujit Kumar), while Vandana (Sharmila Tagore), the daughter of a Doctor Gopal Tripathi (Pahari Sanyal) demurely sneaks glances at him from a mini train.
Arun meets Vandana when he goes to Gopal's help to treat Madan's fever. Madan and Arun befriend Tikaram (Asit Sen), Vandana's house servant and get his intel to get close to Vandana at every available opportunity. Air Commodore Ganguli (Ashok Kumar) is the boys CO in Shimla. Ganguli and Gopal know that Arun and Vandana love each other. After a brief romance, they have a secret wedding, which is a spur of the moment thing at a temple. A photo is taken as memory. They get trapped in a bad storm and take shelter in a local cottage. Arun gets randy and has sex with Vandana.
Soon afterward, Arun dies in an air crash. He dies in a hospital and has a long dialogue with Vandana, but the man never tells her father that he married Vandana and had sex with her, leaving behind a heartbroken and pregnant Vandana. When Vandana comes to his father, he suggests she aborts, but Vandana is adamant to have the kid as Arun always used to dream about his kid and about teaching him to fly.
His family refuses to accept the unwed mother-to-be since her marriage with Arun was never formalized. Meanwhile, her father also dies, leaving her destitute. Vandana's son is finally born, but she is forced to let a childless couple adopt him. Basically, the doctor advises Vandana to put the child in an orphanage for a night and then legally adopt him the very next day, thus clearing all legal hurdles. Vandana selects her boy the next morning and is given a list of things to get. By the time she returns, her son was already adopted by a man Ram Prasad Saxena (Abhi Bhattacharya) whose wife (Anita Guha) gave birth to a dead son for the 3rd time. TO save her, Ram Prasad wanted a newborn baby and Vandana's baby was perfect. Vandana tracks him down, and he believes her story, but He convinces her to let her son stay with him.
Determined to be a part of his life, she accepts the responsibility of becoming his nanny. The boy is named Suraj. Ram's brother-in-law Shyam (Manmohan) arrives and lusts for Vandana. He tries to sexually assault her when no-one is around, but Suraj arrives and stabs him to death to save Vandana. When the police arrive, Vandana takes the blame for the murder and is arrested while Suraj runs away and forgets this mishap as he grows up. Ram Prasad visits Vandana in jail and knows that she didn't murder Shyam and is protecting Suraj. Vandana makes him promise never to tell Suraj who she is, and to make him an air force pilot.
Several years later, when Vandana is released from jail, she is befriended by the jailer (Madan Puri) who takes her home (Ram Prasad is dead and there is no sign of his wife and son Suraj) and introduces her to his daughter Renu (Farida Jalal). Vandana comes face to face with Suraj (Rajesh Khanna) when she discovers that Renu is dating him. Suraj, just like how his father wished, is an air-force officer. He slowly starts remembering that he has seen Vandana somewhere, although Vandana wants to hide the truth as she feels Suraj may be embarrassed upon realizing his parents' background and history. Vandana makes herself at home at the jailer's house.
Suraj is injured in an air crash like his real father Arun but survives. While he is recuperating in the hospital, Vandana meets Madan, who knows that Suraj is Arun and Vandana's son. He wants to tell Suraj the truth, but Vandana does not want Suraj to know that he is her son, fearing the consequences. Ram Prasad's wife, and Suraj's mother comes to meet Renu's father to fix the wedding date and finds Vandana there. She meets Vandana in private and says she knows Suraj is her son and knows that her brother tried to sexually assault her, and Suraj killed him. she apologizes to Vandana.
Later when Vandana is not around, Suraj sees her diary where Arun's photo is found. Realizing that Arun and Vandana are his true parents, he salutes Vandana's self-sacrificing attitude and acknowledges her publicly as his mother at an air force award function.
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