Yahudi Ki Ladki 1957

Yahudi Ki Ladki is a 1957 Indian Bollywood costume drama film released on Jan 01, 1957. The film is directed by S D Narang. Costume epic and the most faithful adaptation of Kashmiris Parsee theatre classic also filmed by Bimal Roy (Yahudi, 1958). The play was written by Kashmiri in 1915, but the movies immediate fromal ancestor was the Bengali stage version of Kashmiris play, . Baradaprasanna Dasguptas Misarkumari (1919). The familiar story features the rivalry between the Roman priest Brutus and the oppressed Jewish merchant, Prince Ezra. Brutus sentences Ezras son to death and Ezra in turn kidnaps and raises Brutus only daughter, Decia. When the daughter, renamed Hannah (Rattan Bai), grows up, the Roman Prince Marcus (Saigal) falls in love with her. To court her, he disguises his Roman identity. When his religion is discovered, he is ejected from Ezras house. Marcus then agrees to marry Princess Octavia (Tara) as arranged, but Hannah denounces his in open court and he is sentenced to death by his own father, the emperor. When Hannah and Ezra respond to they in turn are sentenced to death by Brutus. Ezra reveals to brutus that Hannah, who is about to be killed, is in fact Brutus own daughter. The costumed spectacular was one of the early New Theatres most elaborate productions, with 19 songs including Saigals Ghalib number Nuktanchi hia gham-e-dil usko sunaye na bane. Check out this page for more updates on Yahudi Ki Ladki.