Nateeja 1947

Nateeja is a 1947 Indian Bollywood family drama, social film released on Jan 01, 1947. The film is directed by Rajam Naqvi.
The child is the father of the man. The impressions and the environments of childhood mould the life and character of the man. The life and happiness of many an individual have been wrecked on account of the follies and foibles of their parents. The so-called pleasant pastimes of the rich father have so often gone to make his son a profligate and even a criminal. . Born in a once rich and high society family of a Nawabs. Aslam the little kid often witnessed the orgies of gambling,cockfights and dancing girl parties organised by his father. Aslam, the man revelled in such gambling,visited singing girls and had to resort to croocked ways and cheating to make his both ends meet. He was enamoured of Zohra,a professional singing girl, the latter caring for nothing but the money and jewels the former could bring for her. Aslam succeeded in impressing upon an erstwhile rich Nawab that he was conducting a big business, and thus beguiled the Nawab gave his daughter Suraiyya in marriage to Aslam. The wife was soon disillusioned, because Aslam robbed her of all, her ornaments to bestow them on Zohra. Suraiyyas life was all misery, as Aslam neither cared for her nor for their first born, Salim, and so her father took her and her son to his house Only day Aslam came across a litttle boy playing on the road. He lifted him up and went to a jewellers shop. leaving the child there, under the excuse of showing the ornaments to his womenfolk in purdah, waiting in a tonga outside the shop. He decamped with the ornaments. The jeweller took home the child and as he had no issue, he brought him up as his ow son and called him Mehmud. Some years later, on the death of her father, Suraiyya, with her little niece Shabana shifted to a new place, which happened to be adjacent to the jewellers residence. By that time Mehmud had grown up into a handsome youth, so much so that he could not be recognised even by his mother. Mehmud and Shabhana loved each other, and Suraiyya was abour to propose Shabhanas marriage to Mehmud, when his adopted mother gave out that he was an orphan of unknown parentage. Mehmud abruptly left the jewellers place and joined a film company in Bombay, where the heroine, was so much infatuated with this handsome youth, that she even spurred and insulted her paramour. The heroine was none else than Zohra and her paramour was Aslam. Neither Aslam knew that the other youth was his son, nor did Mehmud know that the other man was his father. Aslam had satrted practice as a hypnotist, and Suraiyya, seeing an advertisement with his photograph in a paper learnt that he was in Bombay, and so she persuaded her neighbour, the jeweller, to accom, pany her to Bombay to reclaim her husbad. The jeweller did the trick. He once accosted Aslam on the road, and under the pretext of taking him to a new singing girl, he took him to the place where Suraiyya had put up. On seeing Suraiyya, Aslam was astonished. On the other front, the rivalry between Aslam and Mehmud about Zohra had grown into a desperate situation, and very sensational development take place. . What happens to Aslam, wheter he leaves Zohra and returns home with Suraiyya, whether Mehmud is recognised by Aslam, Suraiyya and the jeweller, or not, and how ends this tale of a spoilt child run amuck are very sensational episodes worth seeing on the screen than being read. Check out this page for more updates on Nateeja.