Jyoti 1969

Jyoti is a 1969 Indian Bollywood social film released on 1969. The film is directed by Dulal Guha, produced by Chitra Mitra.
`Jyoti tells of the Torch that burns in every human breast, the Torch Faith in that mysterious but all pelvading force called God. . Nirmal Mukerji, a young aero mechanic, and his wife Radha are a happy couple the harmony of whose married life is some times affected by but one discordant note. While Radha is a deeply religions woman, Nirmal is an atteist. . Despite her inherent goodness and Godliness. Radha is childless, and yearns for an offspring. Her unhappiness on this count causes a lot of concern to Nirmal. . One day Preetam, Radhas brother known for his faith in Sadhus, persuades her to visti a holy man who predicts early motherhood for her Nirmal who had reluctantly accompained his wife on the mission scoffs at the prophecy and later takes her to a foreign-returned doctor for consultaiton. . The doctor, after examining Radha, Signals a ray of hope. She will not remain barren he asserts but qualifies the verdict with a statement which comes as a shock to Nirmal. "The rest", he says, "is in the hands of God!" Imagine a foreign returned medical expert betraying faith in God! . After a while the dark clouds over Nirmals married life wither away and Radha is in the family way. She soon gives birth to a bonny boy who is named Nandan. To Nirmals utter horror, Radha is determined to bring up Nandan in the traditional way as she wants him to become a God-fearing man. As the child grows, the conflict between the parents widens. It has a bearing on the boys education too the problem of getting him admitted to a good school in Bombay is solved only when Preetam, the maternal uncle, comes to the rescue and "manages" to get through the admission bottleneck. . Now Preetam is a man with parochial leanings. He regards himself as a Bengali first and is averse to being called a "Hindustani". And, as if to shake this belief, he is attracted to a village belle from Andhra who knows only one language, her native Telugu, and whose father Gopalaswany can more than match Preetams fanaticism when it comes to parochial pride and prejudices. . The tangle is finally solved in wedlock with love blossoming into an inter-provincial marriage with a touch of symbolic secularism all its own. . Nirmal who has never approved of his wifes teaching s to their son (Always have faith in God. He will meet att your needs), has a strange eye-opener when he is cauht in a test flight resulting in a plane- crash and, hey presto! a miracluous escape for the atheist compelling him to confess. "Thouh I cant figure it out what God is and where, it is true that in the face of imminent death I could remember none but HIM!". Check out this page for more updates on Jyoti.