Bahurani (1963 film)

Bahurani
Poster
Directed by	T. Prakash Rao
Written by	Inder Raj Anand
Story by	Manila Banerjee
Starring	Guru Dutt Mala Sinha Feroz Khan
Music by	C. Ramchandra
Distributed by	Meena Movies
Release date	1963
Running time	132 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Bahurani (transl. Daughter-in-law) is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by T. Prakash Rao. The film stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha and Feroz Khan.

It is a remake of the Telugu movie Ardhangi, which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel Swayamsiddha, written by Manilal Banerjee. Swayamsiddha went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name. Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai and was also remade again in Hindi as Jyoti in 1981.

Plot

The Zamindar (Nazir Hussain) has two sons — Raghu, by his first wife and Vikram, by his second wife. Raghu (Guru Dutt) is a simple-minded and innocent young man. Vikram (Feroz Khan) is cruel, domineering, selfish and greedy, and he maltreats everyone, from servants to his own brother Raghu. Vikram's vicious mother (Lalita Pawar) does the same.

After Vikram has a feud with a tough and smart village girl named Padma (Mala Sinha), who is the first person to ever confront him, the Zamindar gets the idea of marrying Vikram and Padma. Vikram refuses, and after a series of incidents, Padma marries Raghu instead. When she understands how her husband has been treated over the years, she vows to set things right, and in the process falls in love with him. Inspired by her love, fearlessness and no-nonsense attitude, Raghu begins to find the courage to resist his oppressors.

Cast

• Guru Dutt ... Raghu
• Mala Sinha ... Padma
• Feroz Khan ... Vikram
• Nazir Hussain ... Zamindar
• Lalita Pawar ... Rajeshwari
• Mukri ... Sukhiya
• Shivraj ... Diwan
• Agha ... Banwarilal
• Badri Prasad..Vaid
• Shyama ... Chanda Bai
• Manorama ... Chanda's mother
• Pratima Devi ... Dai Maa
• Nazir Kashmiri ... Kalicharan

Awards

• Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award - Mala Sinha

Music

The soundtrack of the film contains two songs composed by C. Ramchandra with lyrics authored by Sahir Ludhianvi.

Song	Singer
"Eetal Ke Ghal Mein Teetal"	Hemant Kumar
"Umra Hui Tumse Mile, Phir Na Jane Kyun Aise Lage"	Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar
"Main Jagoon Saari Rain"	Lata Mangeshkar
"Balma Anari Man Bhaye"	Lata Mangeshkar
"Bane Aisa Samaaj"	Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey
"Yeh Husn Mera, Yeh Ishq Tera"	Asha Bhosle
"Kaam Krodh Aur Lobh Ka Maara"	Mahendra Kapoor

Other versions

The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.

Year	Title	Language	Director	Cast
				Step-mother	Son	Wife
1955	Ardhangi	Telugu	P. Pullaiah	Santha Kumari	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Savitri
1956	Pennin Perumai	Tamil	P. Pullaiah	Santha Kumari	Sivaji Ganesan	Savitri
1969	Mallammana Pavaada	Kannada	Puttanna Kanagal	Advani Lakshmi Devi	Rajkumar	B Sarojadevi
1975	Swayamsiddha	Bengali	Sushil Mukherjee		Ranjit Mallick	Mithu Mukherjee
1981	Jyothi	Hindi	Pramod Chakravorty	Shashikala	Jeetendra	Hema Malini
1987	Enga Chinna Rasa	Tamil	K. Bhagyaraj	C. R. Saraswathy	K. Bhagyaraj	Radha
1992	Beta	Hindi	Indra Kumar	Aruna Irani	Anil Kapoor	Madhuri Dixit
1993	Abbaigaru	Telugu	E. V. V. Satyanarayana	Jayachitra	Venkatesh	Meena
1993	Annayya	Kannada	D. Rajendra Babu	Aruna Irani	V. Ravichandran	Madhoo
1998	Santan	Oriya		Snigdha Mohanty	Siddhanta Mahapatra	Rachana Banerjee

External links

• Bahurani at IMDb