Bollywood romantic family drama, Prem Tapasya, written and directed by Narayna Rao Dasari was released on April 15, 1983. The movie starred Jeetendra and Rekha in lead roles while Reena Roy, Asha lata, Ashok Kumar, Prem Chopra, Dina Pathak, Anita Raj, Vinod Mehra, Asrani and Om Shivpuri also played important roles in the film. The evergreen hit music of the movie was composed by the veteran music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal while the songs were crooned by Kishore Kumar, Shabbir Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle.

The movie starts with a guy named Mohan Kumar Verma ( Jeetendra ). He meets with a beautiful girl named Devi ( Reena Roy ) and instantly falls in love with her. He tell his parents about Devi but they ask him to marry another girl named Anita ( Anita Raj ). However, he refuse to do so and announces that he will marry Devi only. He proposes to Devi who after intial rejection accepts his marriage offer. Mohan and Devi prepares to get married soon. But just before their marriage could take place, Devi’s brother finds out a dirty secret about Mohan’s past life. He immediately abandon the marriage of Mohan and Devi.

But Devi who trust Mohan more than her brother ask him to get married in secret. Mohan agrees to this and they decides to get married that night in secret. Devi’s life gets upturned when Mohan does not show up that night for marriage. She assumes that Mohan must have met with an accident and etherefore failed to come there. She starts searching for him and get shocked to learn that Mohan is now in the company of another women named Bela ( Rekha ). Who is this mysterious lady?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Dil ke darwaze pe
2. Aadmi deewana hai
3. Mere chand ko chand ne
4. Devi kucch to bol
5. Shukriya shukriya