Aurat (1940)

Original title

औरत

Directed by

Mehboob Khan

Genre

drama film

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 34m

Rated

U

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman faces hard times in a rural Indian village. She deals with poverty, family trouble, and oppressive social norms.

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What happens

Aurat, also known by its English title Woman, is a 1940 Indian film directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Sardar Akhtar, Surendra, Yakub, Kanhaiyalal and Arun Kumar Ahuja. The film's music is by Anil Biswas and dialogue is by Wajahat Mirza. Mehboob Khan later remade this film as Mother India (1957), which is considered one of the biggest hits of all time in Indian Cinema (and again repeated Wajahat Mirza for dialogues, Kanhiyalal as Sukhi Lala and Faredoon Irani for cinematography). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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