Director: Aruna Raje; Writer: Aruna Raje; Producer: Aruna Raje; Cinematographer: S.R.K. Moorthy; Editor: Arunavikas Sankalan; Cast: Hema Malini, Naseeruddin Shah, Vinod Khanna, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ila Arun
Summary: First solo feature by Aruna Raje whose previous
films were co-directed with Vikas Desai and
signed jointly as Aruna-Vikas. It is set in a
Rajasthan village where the men migrate to
Bombay to seek work (and visit prostitutes)
while their wives at home become victims of
rapacious outsiders like Mansukh (Shah).
Mansukh seduces the virtuous Taku (Malini)
who becomes pregnant. When her husband
(Khanna) returns, she informs him of her
decision to defy the village elders’ diktat and to
have her child. The husband supports her
against a group of villagers determined forcibly
to terminate her pregnancy. Addressing the still
unexplored theme of female sexuality, the film
allows itself to be derailed into a conventional
morality tale.
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