Director: A.R. Kardar; Writer: A.R. Kardar, Begum Ansari; Producer: Shiraz Ali Hakim; Cinematographer: Kukde; Editor: M S Haji; Cast: Bimala Kumari, B. Nandrekar, Sitara Devi, Yasmin, Putlibai, Ashraf Khan, Nazir, Yakub, K.N. Singh, R. Wasti, Mirza Musharraf, Jamunabai, Ram Avatar
Summary: The naive Saroop (Nandrekar) romantically renounces earthly pleasures under the influence of a sadhu (Ashraf Khan). Arrested at a fairground and jailed, fellow convicts change his view of the world. Working in the prison’s garden, he meets the superintendent Sohanlal’s (Nazir) daughter Durga (Kumari), who was married as a child to a boy now believed dead. Ranjit (Singh) covets her and on her wedding day to the nasty Ranjit, it is discovered that Saroop was her child-husband. Kardar’s fascination with sexually deviant behaviour and the violence just below the surface of reformism (cf.
Pagal,
Pooja, both 1940) is manifest in one of his first Bombay films.
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