| Bahurani | |
| Director: | T. Prakash Rao |
| Story: | Manilal Banerjee |
| Starring: | Guru Dutt Mala Sinha Feroz Khan |
| Music: | C. Ramchandra |
| Distributor: | Meena Movies |
| Runtime: | 132 minutes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Hindi |
Bahurani is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by T. Prakash Rao. It stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Feroz Khan in pivotal roles.
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.[1] Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai and was also remade again in Hindi as Jyoti in 1981.
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 Rajeshwari (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 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.
The songs were composed by C. Ramchandra with lyrics authored by Sahir Ludhianvi.
| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| "Eetal Ke Ghal Mein Teetal" | Hemant Kumar |
| "Umra Hui Tumse Mile, Phir Bhi Jane Kyun" | Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar |
| "Main Jagoon Saari Rain" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Balma Anari Man Bhaye" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Bane Aisa Samaaj, Mile Sab Ko Anaaj, Na Ho Loot, Na Ho Phoot, Na Ho Jhuth To Ji Kaisa Ho" | Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey |
| "Yeh Husn Mera, Yeh Ishq Tera" | Asha Bhosle |
| "Kaam Krodh Aur Lobh" | Mahendra Kapoor |
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 | ||||||
| 1956 | Pennin Perumai | ||||||
| 1969 | Mallammana Pavaada | ||||||
| 1975 | Swayamsiddha | Sushil Mukherjee | Mithu Mukherjee | ||||
| 1981 | Jyothi | Jeetendra | Hema Malini | ||||
| 1987 | Enga Chinna Rasa | C. R. Saraswathy | Radha | ||||
| 1992 | Beta | Madhuri Dixit | |||||
| 1993 | Abbaigaru | Meena | |||||
| 1993 | Annayya | ||||||
| 1998 | Santan | Rachana Banerjee | |||||