Badal 1951

Badal is a 1951 Indian Bollywood costume film released on 1951. The film is directed by Amiya Chakraborty, produced by Bhagwan Das Verma under banner named Verma Films.

An Indianized version of the Sherwood Forest legend. King is away, the jaagirdar is a wimp and his henchman loots the poor. Our hero steals from the tyrant and helps the poor and repressed. On a romantic sideline, he courts the jagirdar's beautiful daughter, who is also being wooed by the evil henchman.

Commercially successful adventure movi adapting the Robin Hood legend in the character of Badal (Premnath). The hero loses is faith in god and king when Jaisingh, righ-hand man of the Jagirdar, takes away his property. He forms a band of outlaws, fall in love with Ratna (Madhubala), dughter of the Jagirdar, who is unware of his identity but who later joins his side. Eventually the conflict between Badal and Jaisingh is resolved when the king ventures out in disguise and sees for himself the tyranny of his ministers. *.* Badal is the name of a youngman of the soil reaved up to believe in the mercies of God, in the love of his neighbours and a firm loyalty to his king. . The story opens on a sultry afternoon. Badal returns home with medicine for his ailing father only to find that there is on home for him. Jaisingh, the right hand man of the Jagirdar, is there to attach the house for non-payment of revenue. Mayna, his childhood friend, gives him shelter. But, from deep down his soul. hatred begins to well up against the heartless tyrants and Badal becomes rebel, "robbing the rich to feed the poor". . At this epoch, Ratna, the lovely daughter of the Jagirdar, is captured by the rebels in the absence of Badal. Badal takes his men to task and rescues Ratna from his own den in the disguise of a gay cavalier. Ratna loses her heart for the man. Badal is not indifferent to her, while poor Mayna bears the pangs with silent fortitude. . While Badal becomes the idol of the oppressed people and remains uncaptured, the king threatens the Jagirdar with expulsion. Ratna, to save her father from disgrace, seeks the help of the gay cavalier to capture the out-law. A queer manipulation of fate brings Badal to face to face with Jai Singh & he stands helplessly revealed in front of the girl who loves him. . Shamed and humiliated Ratna walks out of the life of the out-law. But hatred turns into repentance when Ratna learns from Mayna the tragic story of Badal and the tyranny to his own father. . To solve the problem, Ratna pleads for Badals amnesty. Jai Singh palys up on the pardon and when Badal comes to surrender he is clamped into prison but Ratna manages to set Badal free. . When King gets the news of Badals escape, he decides to investigate the matter himself. Dressed up as a prosperous merchant, he goes into the mountain haunts of the rebels and allows himself to be captured by them. But what he sees there of the outlaws surpises him beyond measures. . What follows only preves how an interpid soul in its fearless pursuit of Truth and Justice will inevitably triumph. Check out this page for more updates on Badal.