Malhar 1951

Malhar is a 1951 Indian Bollywood social film released on 1951. The film is directed by Harish, produced by Mukesh under banner named Darling Films.
In the large mansion of the Thakur Sahib, the stage was set for the enactment of a poignant triangle drama. Besides his renegade son, Anand, and his pretty daughter. Reshmi, there was another soul sheltering under the same roof. Son of a deceased friend of his young Rattan had been brought up by Thakur Sahib from a kid and given a place in his affections as consciopus and unchallengeable as that occupied by his own son and daughter. Handsome, bright-eyed, well-mannered Rattan soon carved for himself a well recognised niche in the home of his adoption. . It may have been mere calf-love at first but as the years rolled by and the three children grew bigger Reshmi and Rattan showed an unmistakble fondness for each other an attachment upon which aging Thakur smiled in silent benediction and his hot-tempered, wastefull son frowned malignantly. . The scheming Anand patiently bided his time. He knew he had not long to wait. His father kept indifferent health and, soon very soon, he woule be dead and then.. . So, as soon as the old Thakur was creamted. Anand promptly ignored his fathers bedside behest that the Reshmi-Rattan union should not only be encouraged but duly permitted to find a logical conclusion. Instead, progressively increasing his severity towards the young lover, he finally turned him out of the house-the big old house that had been he only home helpless Rattan had known ever since he could remember-and gave away his bitterly anguished, but uncomplaining, sister in marriage to a rich, happy-go-lucky college friend of his named Bihari. He considered the latter a fruitful source for the financing of his own prfligate pursiuts-a kind of a golden goose with capacity to lay indefinetly. . Rattan had inherited from his father an old family mansion. In their youthful, romantic fancy, Reshmi and he had built dreams around it, planned to make it their home in due course. "You, and you alone", he had vowed to her", shall be first to step into fate had willed he should choose the latter course. So, about the same time as Reshmi was going the seven steps with Bihari around the sacred fire, another larger fire-started by the disappointed lover-was consuming his own large house, to the accompaniment of the hooting of owls and the howling of an unkind wind. . Here the story enters its second phase, epicting the struggle of a beautiful, conscientous, well-bred girl, torn between a love imposed on her by custom and religion and antoher dictated by the heart. Reshmi gathered around her an apparently impregnable crust of fatalism. As a wife she had a duty to perform. She performed it with a fanatic fervour that held people spellbound. She obstinately refused to listen to the anguished cry of her heart. She overworked herself. She tried all the could to forget the past, to think only of the present. To outdistance the painful memories that were for ever threatening to overtake her became with her an obsession. . But it was an unequal struggle, Reshmi found herself overwhelmed by this psychological conflict. The emotional juggernaut made short shrift of her. She fell ill, recovered fell ill again and given up as incurable on the suggestion of a selfish, short sighted mother-in-law, was segregated into the hut of their gardener and there left to die. [Source: Booklet] Check out this page for more updates on Malhar.