Director: Franz Osten; Writer: Saradindu Bandopadhyay, Narottam Vyas; Producer: Himanshu Rai, Devika Rani; Cinematographer: Josef Wirsching; Editor: Dataram N. Pai; Cast: Devika Rani, Rama Shukul, Hansa, V H Aundhkar, Mumtaz Ali, V H Desai, P F Pithawala, Saroj Borkar, Enver, Kiran Shashi Devi, Balwant Singh, Bachanlal Dixit, Lalita Dewoolker, Yusuf Sulehman, Nana Palsiker, Haroon, A R Akhtar, K B Manglel, S A Pujar, Iqbal Husein Pasha
Summary: Rural melodrama about Durga (Devika Rani), an adolescent child of nature, living with her aged mother Heera. Unable to get the medicine required to prevent her mother's death, one misfortune after another befalls the heroine in spite of the sympathies of the newly arrived village doctor, Jawahar (Shukul). In the absence of Niranjan Pal, the studio's main scenarist and author of its best-known rural dramas (Achhut Kanya, Janmabhoomi, both 1936), the tale reduces itself to a purely familial narrative. It is nevertheless a key production in Devika Rani's self-projection of urbane charm clothed in primal innocence. Osten followed it with Leela Chitnis's first big film, Kangan (1939). Wadkar was promoted to lead actress again opposite Shukul in in her next big film, Navjeevan (1939)..
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