Swami
Kardar’s ultra-conservative ode to patriarchy tells of Binod (Jairaj) and Indira (Sitara Devi) who were married as children and never meet as adults. Indira grows into a ‘modern’ young woman while Binod, disinherited when his stepfather has a son, works in a distant village. Indira haughtily refuses a relationship with a pauper but she eventually realises her duties to her husband and goes to meet him disguised as Shanta, a beggar woman. Binod then falls in love with her, not realising she is in fact his wife.
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Abdul Rashid Kardar Director · Munshi Premchand Writer Imtiaz Ali Taj Writer
First release October 18, 1941
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Hindi
Release dates
India · October 18, 1941
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