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Bahurani (1963 film)

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'Bahurani' is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by T. Prakash Rao. The film stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha and Feroz Khan in pivotal roles.

It is a remake of the Telugu movie 'Ardhangi', which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel 'Swayamsiddha', written by Manilal Banerjee. 'Swayamsiddha' went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name. 'Ardhangi' was remade in Tamil as 'Pennin Perumai' and was also remade again in Hindi as 'Jyoti' in 1981.

Plot



Zamindar (Nazir Hussain) has two sons Raghu, by his first wife and Vikram, by his second wife. Raghu (Guru Dutt) is a simple-minded and innocent young man. Vikram (Feroz Khan) is cruel, domineering, selfish and greedy and he maltreats everyone, from servants to his own brother Raghu. Vikram's vicious mother Rajeshwari (Lalita Pawar) does the same.

After Vikram has a feud with a tough and smart village girl named Padma (Mala Sinha), who is the first person to ever confront him, Zamindar gets the idea of marrying Vikram and Padma. Vikram refuses and after a series of incidents, Padma marries Raghu instead. When she understands how her husband has been treated over the years, she vows to set things right and in the process falls in love with him. Inspired by her love, fearlessness and no-nonsense attitude, Raghu begins to find the courage to resist his oppressors.

Cast



*Guru Dutt as Raghu

*Mala Sinha as Padma

*Feroz Khan as Vikram

*Nazir Hussain as Zamindar

*Lalita Pawar as Rajeshwari

*Mukri as Sukhiya

*Shivraj as Diwan

*Agha as Banwarilal

*Badri Prasad as Vaid

*Shyama as Chanda Bai

*Manorama as Chanda's mother

*Pratima Devi as Dai Maa

*Nazir Kashmiri as Kalicharan

Awards



*Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award - Mala Sinha

Music



The songs of the film was composed by C. Ramchandra with lyrics authored by Sahir Ludhianvi.

Other versions



The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.

References




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