Yesteryear bollywood family drama flick, Jagriti, directed by satyen Bose was released in the year 1954. The movie starred Abhi Bhattacharya and Mumtaz Begum in lead roles while Ghanshyam, Dhumal, Mehmood, Chandan Kumar, Bipin Gupta, Rattan Kumar and Dilip also played important characters in the film. The hit evergreen music of the movie was composed by the veteran music director Hemanata Mukherjee while the songs were crooned by Mohammed rafi, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

Ajay ( Rajkumar Gupta ) is living a wealthy lifestyle alongwith his grandfather. He has some very bad habits specially that he never hears to his elders. He is therefore sent to a boarding school by his grandfather so that he can learn some discipline there. The boarding school is run by a guy named Shekhar ( Abhi Bhattacharya ). Ajay doesn’t leave his bad habits and is punished several times. Ajay then come across another boy named Shakti ( Rattan Kumar ), who is actually an handicapped. Shakti decides to change Ajay’s negative behaviour into positive one.

Ajay tries to escape from the school but Shakti learns about it. He tries to stop Ajay but fails because of his disability. But he continue to chase Ajay and enters into the city. Shakti meets with an accident and dies. Ajay get shocked to see the dead body of Ajay and realises his mistake. Ajay returns to the boarding school and soon everyone starts noticing a big change in Ajay’s behaviour.

The songs of the movie are:

1. De di hamein azaadi
2. Hum laaye hain
3. Aao bacchon tumhein
4. Chalo chalein