Aashirwad directed and written by Hrishikesh Mukherjee ; produced by N.C. Sippy & Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

Originally released theatrically in 1968.

Aashirwad is a 1968 Bollywood film, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The protagonist Jogi Thakur is a simple man of high principles. He is a resident son-in-law who, with his wife, has been bequeathed property and estates by his father-in-law. He breaks his marriage to an autocratic landlady Veena, when he finds out that on his wife's order, the chief accountant of the estate has cunningly obtained his signatures on an order that the houses of the poor be burnt. He leaves home, vowing never to return as long as he lives, leaving his daughter Neena behind. He moves to Mumbai where he makes a living by entertaining children in a park (the famous song "Rail Gaadi", said to be India's first rap number). He is especially fond of a girl whose name, incidentally, is Neena (played by baby Sarika), too. Unfortunately, the girl takes ill and dies.
Jogi then returns to his village, Chandanpur, where he finds that the daughter of one of his villager friends, Baiju, has been abducted. He rushes someplace where she is about to be raped by the estate's cunning chief accountant, and he kills him to protect the girl. The villagers make up a phony story to save him, but he opts to tell the truth in the court and is jailed.

Music, Vasant Desai.

Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Sumita Sanyal, Sajjan, Veena, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Kumari Padma.

Shivnath Chaudhary, a middle-aged man married to Leela Devi, the daughter of a Zamindar, a land owner social class. He loves music, she hates his love of music. This dislike turns into an incident for which Shivnath is imprisoned for fourteen years. Leela Devi moves to the city with her daughter Neena but hides the tragic truth from her. Shivnath's only desire now is to meet his daughter, but he wonders if Neena will accept him after she learns the truth.

In Hindi with English subtitles.