Movie
Vachan
1955 · 118 min
A poignant, slow-burning melodrama that wrings emotion from family hardship and sacrifice, with a classic Bollywood score.
- Directed by
- Raj Rishi
- Starring
- Geeta Bali, Rajendra Kumar, Balraj
- Overview
- Kamla lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India, along with her widowed dad, Dinanath, who works as an Accountant with Sarpanch Journal, and two younger brothers, college-going Kumar, and school-going 12 year old brother, Kishore. Dinanath's main aim is to get Kamla married to her lover, wealthy Prem, and ensure that Kumar and Kishore get a proper college education. When Dinanath's eyesight becomes very weak, he starts making errors, and loses his job. He does manage to persuade his employer, Laxmidas, to hire Kumar once he gets his degree in Arts. On the day of the results, Kumar has an accident and passes away, a devastated Dinanath bangs his head, injures himself, is hospitalized, recovers but loses his vision completely. As a result, Kamla's wedding is canceled, Prem reluctantly gets married to Shyama; while Kamla gets a job and starts to look after her dad and Kishore.
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- Directed by
- Raj Rishi
- Starring
- Geeta Bali, Rajendra Kumar, Balraj
