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'Naulakha Haar' is a 1953 Bollywood drama film produced by Ratnadeep Pictures and directed by Bal Chander Shuckla & Harsukh Bhatt. Bhola Srestha was the music director of this movie.

Plot



Devla (Durga Khote) is married in a prominent Rajput family located in Mandavgar. Her sister is also married in this family. Their brother, Mahil Rai Podiyal (Jeevan (actor)), is bitter about this and plots with Kiriya Rai, which results in Kiriya's vain attempt to steal a valuable necklace, losing his reputation and his sword. Thus humiliated he returns, plots his vengeance, returns, kills Devla's and her sister's husbands, steals the necklace, sets fire to Mandavgar, takes an elephant and a magical flying horse with him, and hangs the scalps of his victims on the doorway to his palace. Devla swears to avenge this humiliation. Now 19 years later, Devla's son, Udal (Arvind), has grown up and is told about his past. He decides to kill Kiriya, but finds out that he is Bijma's, the woman he loves, brother. Kiriya finds out about this and forbids Bijma (Meena Kumari) from seeing him again. Nevertheless, Udal sneaks into Bijma's, who is learning magic, room. When Kiriya knocks on the door, Bijma magically transforms Udal into a parrot, but Kiriya wrings its neck and tosses it from the balcony. With Udal's neck wrung, how will Devla carry out her vengeance?

Cast



* Meena Kumari as Bijma

* Durga Khote as Devla

* Nirupa Roy as Lakha

* Jeevan as Mahil

* Ishwarlal as Kiriya

* Arvind as Udal

* Sunder as Dheva

Crew



*Director Harsukh Jagneshwar Bhatt & Bal Chander Shuckla

*Producer Ratnadeep Pictures

*Story Pt. Anuj Bhaskerji

*Dialogues & Screenplay Pt. Girish

*Photography K. Purushottam & Arvind Desai

*Music Bhola Srestha

*Lyrics Bharat Vyas & Ramesh Gupta

*Editing Thakore Desai

*Playback Singers Shamshad Begum, Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Rajkumari Dubey, Pramodini Desai, Arvind, Sunder, Gandhari, Madhubala Jhaveri

Soundtrack



Lyrics for the songs of the film were written by Bharat Vyas & Ramesh Gupta. Bhola Srestha was gave the music.


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