Pehli Raat |
Producer
A. A. Nadiadwala
Director
P. L. Santoshi
Music Director
Ravi
Story
S. Naziruddin
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Cast
Sohrab Modi, Rehman, Sudesh Kumar, Prakash Gupta, Jeewan, Munshi Munnaqa, Daraz, Adeeb, Maqbul, Johnny Walker, Nimmi, Nanda, Sheela Kashmiri, Manorama, Paro, Amir Bai, Ratna and Lalita Pawar |
Playback
Mohd. Rafi, Asha Bhonsle, Talat Mahmood, Manna Dey, Sudha Malhotra and Balbir |
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Synopsis
Pehli Raat is a fine tribute on celluloid to the loves and affections, sacrifies & surrerings, hopes and frustrations & the ultimate triumph and redemption of woman, as a girl, as a wife, widowed on her wedding night and as a mother.
Beena, an orphan girl reared in her maternal uncle’s house and undergoing her aunty’s constant ill treatment, grows up and is married off to a well-to-do groom which is arranged by her loving uncle. On her wedding night, Beena becomes a widow due to the untimely death of her groom. Marital love is reduced to a funeral song and to add fuel to the fire, she becomes pregnant shortly afterwards.
News of her pregnancy degenerate into a scandal and poor Beena, suspected of her chastity, is turned out of house by her shrewd sister-in-law, Jamuna. Beena is rendered into a roaming destitute, eventually delivering a baby-girl in the hospital. Poverty and misery compelled her to abandon her baby to the tender mercies of the Temple God as she is driven to commit suicide...
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