Sujata 1959

Sujata is a 1959 Indian Bollywood social, musical, offbeat film released on Jan 01, 1959. The film is directed by Bimal Roy, produced by Bimal Roy under banner named Bimal Roy Productions.
Roys classic reformist melodrama about a Harijan (Untouchable) girl whose kinfold die in a plague epidemic and is raised by an upper-class and caste family. Upendranath Choudhary (Bose) and his wife Charu (Sulochana) have a daughter, Rama (Shashikala), and they adopt Sujata (Nutan), the Harijan orphan. Later, Sujata discovers the truth of her ancestry and must bear the demeaning treatment meted out by Charu and the family friend Giribala (Pawar), whose son Adhir (Dutt) is supposed to marry Rama but falls in love with Sujata. When Sujata donates blood to save Charus life, even Charu has to abandon her caste prejudice. Nutan gives one of her best performances, surpassed only by her solo tour de force in Roys Bandini (1963). Unfortunately, the weak Adhir has to bear the burden of being the only representative of the progressive forces ranged against oppressive tradition. Presumably for its humanist message, the film includes a rather arbitarily inserted but elaborate stage performance of Tagores dance drama Chandalika. Several classic numbers include Asha Bhosles Kali ghata chhaye, composer S.D. Burmans own Suno mere bandhu re and Talat Mahmoods Jalte hain jiske liye. Check out this page for more updates on Sujata.