The Jewelled Lamp) is a 1979 Hindi film written and directed by Basu Chatterjee.

[1] The film starred Hema Malini and Girish Karnad in lead roles.

The movie was reported to be based on a short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay.

[3] Madan (played by Girish Karnad) works as a railways official in Tarapore, a remote village.

The daughter of Madan's superior, the Railway Station Master, is in love with him and wishes to marry him.

Madan is forced into ordering railway workers to offload the corpse and its belongings.

But Madan is in no mood to dwell on this matter as he is eager to leave Tarapore.

Madan decides to visit the family but as he read on, he realises the Sadhu was a rich man.

His wife who has led a widow's life for the past 7 years was two months pregnant when her husband left the palace.

He collects all the cash from the safe and leaves on the pretext that he has some bank work.

On the fateful day- mother of the Raja (Sulochana) gives her daughter-in-law a Ratnadeep and asks the latter to perform the puja of her husband.

Hearing that the man who is standing in front of her was an impostor not her husband Rani falls accidentally causing fire.

The music for the film was directed by R. D. Burman and the lyrics were written by Gulzar.