Aasha

Deepak (Jeetendra) is a truckdriver who gives a lift to a famous singer Aasha (Reena Roy) when her vehicle breaks down. They become friends. He is already in love with Mala (Rameshwari), whom he marries. Aasha wishes him well calling him dost (friend), even though she has fallen in love with him. Deepak has an accident, and everyone believes that he is dead.

His grieving mother tells a pregnant Mala to go away. Mala goes home to her father, but he dies. Upset with everything in her life, she jumps from a bridge into the water. She is saved by members of a temple community but finds that she lost her sight. She gives birth and names her daughter Deepamala, combining her and her husbands names.

Her husband turns out to be alive. He comes home and finds his mother overjoyed to see him. She tells him that Mala had committed suicide. He becomes depressed. Aasha re-enters his life and helps him overcome his depression.

They get engaged. They become acquainted with Deepamala, now a little girl, selling little Gods statutes on the street. They are completely enchanted by her, even though they dont know that she is really Deepaks daughter. Aasha meets Mala and tells her theyll pay for her eye operation, so she can regain her sight. Aasha also invites her and Deepamala to the wedding.

After she regains her sight from the operation, she goes to Aashas wedding and is shocked to see Deepak. She quickly leaves, not wanting to disrupt Aasha and Deepaks lives. Malas friend (Girish Karnad) tells Deepak that Mala is still alive and that Deepamala is actually his daughter. Aasha cancels the wedding and calls him dost (friend) and tells him to go and reunite with his wife and daughter, which he does. Aasha goes back on stage permanently to sing her signature song Shisha Ho Ya Dil Ho, Aakhir Toot Jata Hai, which translates into Whether its glass or a heart, it will inevitably break.