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Directed by T. Prakash Rao Music by C. Ramchandra Running time 132 minutes Director Tatineni Prakash Rao Screenplay Inder Raj Anand | 7/10 IMDb Written by Inder Raj Anand Distributed by Meena Movies Initial release 1963 Music director C. Ramchandra Producer M. Azam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starring Guru Dutt
Mala Sinha
Feroz Khan Cast Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Feroz Khan, Lalita Pawar, Shyama Similar Suhagan, Bahu Beti, Gumrah, Apne Huye Paraye, Sanjh Aur Savera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bahurani is a 1963 Indian Hindi film directed by T. Prakash Rao. The film stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha and Feroz Khan in lead roles.
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It is remake of Telugu movie Ardhangi which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of 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. The story of Swayamsiddha was also similar to the Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada by B. Puttaswamayya which was adapted into 1969 movie titled Mallammana Pavaada for which screenplay was written by director P. Pullaiah based on his 1955 Telugu movie Ardhangi. The Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada also inspired the 1987 Tamil movie Enga Chinna Rasa which went on to be remade in Telugu as Abbaigaru , in Hindi as Beta , in Kannada as Annayya and in Oriya as Santan (1998).
Bahurani
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, Zamindar gets an idea of marrying Vikram and Padma. Vikram refuses, and after a series of incidents, Padma ends up getting married to 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.
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Music
The soundtrack of the film contains two songs composed by C. Ramchandra with lyrics authored by Sahir Ludhianvi
Other versions
The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.