Jaganmohini (1978 film)

Jaganmohini
Jaganmohini
Directed by	B. Vittalacharya
Produced by	B. Vittalacharya
Starring	Jayamalini; Narasimha Raju; Dhulipala; Prabha; Sarathi
Release date	1978
Country	India
Languages	Telugu; Tamil

Jaganmohini (Telugu: జగన్మోహిని;Tamil: ஜகன்மோகினி) is a 1978 Telugu drama film produced and directed by B. Vittalacharya. The movie was a remake of the 1951 Kannada movie Jaganmohini. The film stars Narasimha Raju, Prabha and Jayamalini.^[1] The film was subsequently remade in Tamil language. Jaganmohini became a major hit and even performed better than the films of big stars. The movie had the best visual effects according to Indian standards at that time.^[2]

This is the story of woman betrayed by a king, who reappears in her next life as a ghost intent on possessing him. On the advice of a priest, the king marries a pious woman who matches her devotional prowess against the ghost's seductions and wins.

Plot[]

Raja (Narasimha Raju) was a king in his previous life. When he goes to the forest once to hunt animals, he gets attracted to an orphan stick selling lady Mohini (Jayamalini) and lusts after her. He seduces her and enjoys having sex with her in the forest. After a week he leaves her in the forest itself promising that he would return to marry her and will make her his queen. But Raja is a lustful womanizer and he just betrayed Mohini. Knowing this Mohini commits suicide vowing that she will return to get him in his next life. Raja in his next birth goes to the same forest to drink water where Jaganmohini, now a ghost, appears to him and lures him with her beauty. But he is married to another pious woman (Prabha). She regains him by praying to her Goddess, whom she believes in strongly. In the process, she is turned to into the form of an old woman and later into the form of a snake by Jaganmohini to obstruct her prayers. But, with the help of another pious ghost, and her brother-in-law, who is also turned into a sheep by Jaganmohini, she regains her original form and finishes her prayers at Srisailam. Jagan Mohini at last gets her "moksham" and goes to heaven.

Cast[]

Savitri as Raja's mother
Jayamalini as Jaganmohini
Narasimha Raju as Raja
Prabha as Raja's wife
Vijayalakshmi
Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry as Raja's father
Sarathi as Raja's friend
A. Satyanarayana
Athili Lakshmi
Mukkamala
Balakrishna
Jayachandran
Anita
Duttaluri RamaRao

References[]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 March 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Baahubali is a triumph of director SS Rajamouli's fierce imagination".

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 March 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Baahubali is a triumph of director SS Rajamouli's fierce imagination".

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