Bollywood family drama, Mawaali, directed by K. Bapaiah was released on November 4, 1983. The movie starred Jeetendra and Sridevi in lead roles while Jayapradha, Aruna Irani, Shakti Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Kadar Khan, Iftekhar, Shreeram Lagoo, Asrani and Nirupa Roy also played important characters in the film. The melodious hit music of the movie was directed by the well known music director Bappi Lahiri while the songs were beautifully crooned by Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle etc.

The movie starts with young and beautiful Nisha Verma ( Jayapradha ), who lives a wealthy lifestyle alongwith her father, Goyal Verma ( Shreeram Lagoo ), her aunt, Laila ( Aruna Irani ) and her husband Ajit ( Kadar Khan ). Laila wants Nisha to get married with Ajit’s cousin, Ranjeet ( Shakti Kapoor ) so that she can inherit all her wealth. But Asha is in love with another guy named Ramesh ( Jeetendra ). She introduces Ramesh to her father, who disapproves him and ask her to not to see him again.

After that incident, one night Nisha witnesses the death of his father in their house while Ramesh was trying to run away from there. She assumes that Ramesh has killed her father. Police arrests Ramesh and is presented in the court. Nisha’s testimony proves that Ramesh is the culprit and is sentenced to death by court. However, Ramesh continues to plea that he is innocent. What will happen now?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Baap ki kasam
2. Oi amma oi amma
3. Jhopadi mein charpayi
4. Char baar marenge
5. Main hoon mawali