Director: Sohrab Modi; Writer: Gajanan Jagirdar, Anand Kumar; Cinematographer: S.D. Patil; Cast: Naseem Banu, Gajanan Jagirdar, Navin Yagnik, Prem Adib, Khwaja Sabir, Sheela, Vimala Vasisth, Shanta Dutt, Abu Baker, Khan Mastana
Summary: An early Modi psychodrama condemning the divorce law as iniquitous to Hinduism. Roopa (Banu), wife of politician Niranjan (Yagnik), leaves her husband to fight for more progressive divorce laws. She is helped for exploitative reasons by Chhabilelal (Jagirdar), the editor of the radical journal Aandhi. Roopa gets her divorce but is disillusioned by her legal achievement when Amarnath (Adib), whom she marries, uses the same law against her. Niranjan rescues and falls in love with the married Shanta (Sheela); since he does not approve of the divorce law, they cannot marry. Modi’s late 30s films focus on the issue of sexual infidelity (
Jailor, 1938;
Bharosa, 1940), chronicling with almost gleeful misogyny how the guilty women are made to suffer for their temerity.
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