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Bahurani (1963)

Bahurani poster
Directed by
Tatineni Prakash Rao
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 13m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a daughter in law dealing with family relationships and personal struggles. It was remade from an earlier Telugu movie based on a Bengali novel.

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What happens

Bahurani (transl. Daughter-in-law) 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 adapted into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name and later in Hindi as Jyoti in 1981. Ardhangi was also remade earlier in Tamil as Pennin Perumai. In Malayalam, Prem nazir and Ragini starrer Saraswathi (film) 1970 also based on this movie . (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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