Director: B.K. Adarsh; Writer: Pandit Indra, Naval Mathur; Cinematographer: D.R. Dadhicha; Cast: P. Kailash, Hiralal, Rajkumar, Mohan Modi, Rajdeep, Kiran Lal, Saraswati Devi, Sarita Devi, Champak Lala, Dhannalal, Helen, Nana Palsikar
Summary: The second Rajasthani film (after G.P. Kapoor’s
Nazrana, 1942) and its first hit. Feudal
melodrama about the virtuous landlord
Dharamdas, representing an idealised Marwari
business community, who adopts a deceased
employee’s daughter, Saraswati. She and
Dharamdas’s son Ramesh fall in love, but her
villainous uncle, who wants Ramesh to marry
his flippant daughter Vaijayanti, uses his
familial authority to arrange Saraswati’s
marriage with the handicapped son of a greedy
shah. The tragic consequences of feudal
patriarchal powers are eventually overcome
and the lead couple unite in the end.
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