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Mere Lal (1966)

Mere Lal poster
Directed by
Satyen Bose
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A stone-hearted dacoit finds a lost child on a riverbank. The responsibility of raising the child changes him into an honest wage-earner.

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What happens

Mere Lal (transl. My Son) is a 1966 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Satyen Bose and produced by Jyotsna Sen. It is a remake of the 1963 Bengali film Badshah, based on the story of Nihar Ranjan Gupta. The film stars Dev Kumar, Indrani Mukherjee and Mala Sinha. It focuses on a stone-hearted dacoit who, when thrust with the responsibility of bringing up a lost child he finds on a riverbank, mends his ways and becomes an honest wage-earner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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