Milan Ki Raat 1967

Milan Ki Raat is a 1967 Indian Bollywood social film released on 1967. The film is directed by R. Bhattacharya.
Criminal assault on a helpless girl is a most henious crime. In U.S.A. a rapist is sent to the gallows by law and his victim is treated with universal and unreserved sympathy. This is the law in most civilsed nations of the world. In India, too, a woman is protected against a rapist, who, if found guilty, is sentenced to heavy punishment. But Indian socity, governed, as it is, by man-made law, very often exhono- rates the offender and condemnu the vicitm to untold miseries. . India, after all is a land of Rama, who is idolised because he had the `guts to cast his devoted wife Sita on frivilous charges made against her by a washer man. "Milan Ki Raat" is also such a story. . Parvati, a young virgin returns to her hometown after her collage education and is greeted by her brother Govind and her shrewish sister in-law, who desires to marry her to his delenquent and deformed brot- her. Parvati somehow meets Shankar a handsome lawer and both fall in love. A dominat person in the town is Prakash, a way-ward and lechero- us Zamindar, who excels in seducing and at times even kidnapping young girls at his will. . Parvati is oforcibly kidnapped by Prakash one evening and is subjected to a fate worse than death. . Now a ruined woman, Parvati attempts to commit sucide but is saved. She, therfore, renounces the world to dedicate herself in Janseva Ashram, a charitable hospital, as a nurse under the charge of a kindly Swamiji. She is lost to her relations and to Shankar. . One day a young man, severely injured in an accident, is brought to the charitable hospital. The injured young is Shankar. Parvati is overwhelmed by her love for Shankar and without caring to hide her identity she starts nursing him with love and dedicated care. Shankar revovers fast and forces Parvati to quit the hospital. . Parvati returns home and now Shankar insists on early marriage. Parvati now decides to reveal her `past to Shankar before her marriage. somehow fate plays a trick with the letter, she writes to Shankar Shankar and Parvati are married. In course of time a lovely malechild is born to them. . One eveining Shankar and Parvati celebrate their wedding aniversary and presto! there appears on the scene Prakash the villain of the piece. The villain, drunk with ego, power, pelf and the evil within him, reveals Parvatis "past" with a bravado. . The Man-dominated society, indtead of prosecuting Prakash and punish- ing him for his misdeed pounces upon the helpless victim, Parvati. She is driven from the house and is named a `Kulta (an adultless). . One day Parvati faces the court of law on a charge of murder. She has murdered Prakash to save her child from death and she is not sorry for what she has done. She has to redeem her honour. She must punish the wrong-doer in the man-made society, which tends to protect a criminal if he is a male and persecute his victim if she is a female. . The film Milan Ki Raat, like a trial of a woman, who redeems herslef against a rapist, is a drama in which you, with every member of your family have to participate. . You must see this film not only as a cnegoer but also as a member of the jury to pass your independent judgement on the trial and tribulat- ion of an accused like Parvati and hundreds and thousands like her who are subjected to a a similar fate. "Milan Ki Raat" should not only be a film-entertainemtn but also a provocation for every cinegoer to think. Check out this page for more updates on Milan Ki Raat.