''Jaganmohini'' () is a 1978 Telugu-language
drama film produced and directed by
B. Vittalacharya
B. Vittalacharya (28 January 1920 – 28 May 1999) was an Indian film director and producer known for his works in Telugu and Kannada cinema. He was known as ''Janapada Brahma'' in the Telugu film industry. Vittalacharya formed his film prod ...
. The movie was a remake of the 1951 Kannada movie ''
Jaganmohini
Mohini ( Sanskrit: मोहिनी, ') is the Hindu goddess of enchantment. She is the only female avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. She is portrayed as a ''femme fatale'', an enchantress, who maddens lovers and demons, sometimes leading th ...
''. The film stars
Narasimha Raju,
Prabha and
Jayamalini. The film was dubbed in
Tamil. ''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.
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
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Savitri Savitri or Savithrri may refer to:
In Hinduism
* Savitri, with all vowels short, a Roman-phonetic spelling of the Rigvedic solar deity Savitr
*Sāvitrī, a name of the ''Gayatri Mantra'' dedicated to Savitr
*Savitri (goddess), the consort of Brah ...
as Raja's mother
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Jayamalini as Jaganmohini
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Narasimha Raju as Raja
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Prabha as Raja's wife
* Vijayalakshmi
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Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry as Raja's father
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Sarathi as Raja's friend
* A. Satyanarayana
* Athili Lakshmi
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Mukkamala Mukkamala may refer to:
* Mukkamala (actor)
* Mukkamala, East Godavari district
Mukkamala is a village in Ambajipeta mandal of East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Eminent Astrophysicist Appadvedula Lakshmi Narayan, known as A. L. N ...
*
Balakrishna
* Jayachandran
* Anita
* Duttaluri RamaRao
References
External links
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Jaganmohini on Youtube
1978 films
Indian ghost films
Films about reincarnation
Indian historical horror films
1970s Telugu-language films
Telugu remakes of Kannada films
Films directed by B. Vittalacharya
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