Jogan

Jogan

Vijay

Mahamaiya

Anjani

Mangu (as Baby Tabassum)

(as Pessi Patel)

Vijay's Puffi

The film's title refers to religious female mendicants (called "perseverants" in the sub-titles). The most famous example, is the 16th century poet/saint Meerabai. It is a song by Meerabai ("Ghunghat ke pat khol") sung by Geeta Dutt that first attracts Dilip Kumar's character to the temple.

The word jogan is the female equivalent in Hindi of jogi from which we get the English word yogi. These are people (ascetics, dervishes, mendicants) who have renounced the world in search of spiritual enlightenment. This usually includes vows of celibacy and sexual abstinence and this point forms the crux of this movie: Dilip Kumar's character becomes attracted to a woman whose vocation means she cannot reciprocate. The equivalent would be someone falling in love with a nun.