Ram Teri Ganga Maili however, marked a departure. Ravindra Jain's music was okay, definitely minus the spark of the music of R K's earlier films. Probably, it was age and changing times that got manifested in the film, for the focus more on the heroine's bare essentials, than the beautiful and relevant subject of men sullying and polluting the river Ganga, seemed quite unnecessary. Mandakini was launched as yet another R K heroine with great fanfare. The actress could not sustain her initial success and gradually faded away from limelight.