Sargam

<p>Hema is a mute young girl who lives with her father, Chintamani Pradhan, stepmother Savitri and stepsister Champa. Savitri dreams about her daughter becoming a star and arranges for her classical dance lessons. Hema also joins her and quickly shows her superior talent. Intolerant Savitri forbids Hema from learning dance anymore. Her father, who is a schoolteacher, was visited by his old student Raju who plays Dafli. Raju tries to cheer Hema up from time to time. One night, Raju finds a woman struggling to get rid of a man and Raju helps her. Later, the woman, Kusum tells him that her husband, Prakash forced her to spend the night with another man. Hema’s father passes away, and she is thrown out of the house by Savitri. She is supported by Raju, and they leave the village. Savitri and Champa go to the city to find work, but they realize that they have been conned, and they come back. Prakash still holds grudge against Raju and attacks him in the end when he is rescued by police. Raju and Hema reunite, and Savitri finds the goodness in her heart and accepts Hema as her daughter too. All the songs were composed by and lyrics were penned by . The song “Dafli Wale Dafli Baja” was used as an interlude by , in the film version of the song, Radha, from , which also starred Kapoor. was also one of the best-selling of the 1970s.</p>