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After the passing away of her parents, Mangala moves in with her maternal uncle, his wife, and five cousins, who all live a poor lifestyle in a small town. She has a sweetheart in Anoop and hopes to marry him someday. When Anoop hesitates,... See more »

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Anand
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Tara
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Mangala / Daasi (as Moushumi)
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Anoop
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Gopinath (as Vikram)
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Anoop's girlfriend (as Radhika Bartake)
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Kamal (as Paintal)
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Mangala's aunt
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Anita
Bela ...
Mangala's cousin
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Mangala's maternal aunt
Meena ...
Mangala's cousin
Rajesh ...
Mangala's cousin
Arjan Sahani
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Anand's tabla player
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Mangala's cousin (as Meena T.)
Gauri Verma ...
Mangala's cousin
Pooja Verma ...
Mangala's cousin

Directed by

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Raj Khosla

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K.K. Shrivastava ... (dialogue)

Produced by

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Subhash Verma ... producer

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Ravindra Jain

Cinematography by

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Suraj Sanim

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Waman B. Bhosle

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Asha Bhosle ... playback singer
Manna Dey ... playback singer
Ravindra Jain ... lyricist / playback singer
Kishore Kumar ... playback singer
Lata Mangeshkar ... playback singer
Ramanlal ... song recordist: Famous Recording Centre, Tardeo, Bombay
Bhupendra Singh ... playback singer

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Plot Summary

After the passing away of her parents, Mangala moves in with her maternal uncle, his wife, and five cousins, who all live a poor lifestyle in a small town. She has a sweetheart in Anoop and hopes to marry him someday. When Anoop hesitates, her marriage is arranged elsewhere, however, on the day of the marriage, the groom meets with an accident and passes away. Her aunt quickly gets her married to a singer named Anand. After the marriage, Mangala is shocked to find that Anand is blind and detests him. When she finds out that he cares for her, she changes her mind and falls in love with him. Then Anoop re-enters her life, Anand finds out, and drives her out. Mangala returns home to her aunt, but she refuses to accept her. Then Mangala finds out that Anand has become a famous singer as well as an alcoholic. She goes to his house in Bombay, gets herself hired as a servant, calls herself Daasi, and pretends to be dumb so that Anand cannot hear her voice and recognize. Eventually she settles in, Anand is pleased with her work, but she also finds out that he hates Mangala; then publicly announces that he is going to marry a dancer by the name of Tara; Tara, catches her stealing a necklace, and to complicate matters even more - Anoop re-enters their lives again. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

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Also Known As
  • The Maid Servant (India, English title)
  • दासी (India, Hindi title)
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Trivia Naushad was to compose music for this movie, Daasi, but when Rajesh Roshan wanted to compose music for this movie, Naushad Saab made way for Rajesh as his father Roshan and Naushad were friends. Then Rajesh Roshan recorded 2 songs for this film but then Raj Khosla the director of Daasi, decided that Ravindra Jain should compose the remaining songs of the movie. See more »
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