• Source: Aurat (1940 film)

Aurat, also known by its English title Woman, is a 1940 Indian film directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Sardar Akhtar, Surendra, Yakub, Kanhaiyalal and Arun Kumar Ahuja. The film's music is by Anil Biswas and dialogue is by Wajahat Mirza. Mehboob Khan later remade this film as Mother India (1957), which is considered one of the biggest hits of all time in Indian Cinema (and again repeated Wajahat Mirza for dialogues, Kanhiyalal as Sukhi Lala and Faredoon Irani for cinematography).




Plot


Radha (Sardar Akhtar) is an indomitable woman, toiling away to feed her three sons and to pay off Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal), the village's rapacious moneylender. When she learns that she is pregnant again, her husband, Shamu (Arun Kumar Ahuja), runs away, leaving her to fend for herself against poverty and the lecherous advances of Sukhilala. Later, the two eldest children die, leaving her with only two sons: the strait-laced Ramu (Surendra) and the wild Birju (Yakub). The latter of the two becomes a bandit, who kills Sukhilala and kidnaps his childhood sweetheart. As a result, Radha and Ramu are cast out of the village. Eventually, Radha kills Birju for dishonoring her.




Cast



Surendra as Ramu
Sardar Akhtar as Radha
Yakub as Birju
Aroon as Shamu
Harish as Bansi
Jyoti as Jamna
Kanhaiyalal as Sukhi
Vatsala Kumtekar as Kamla
Sunalini as Sunder Chachi
Brijrani as Tulsi
Akbar Gulam Ali as Laloo
Kanu Pande as Chandoo
Wasker as Fulchand
Amirbanu as Kashibai




References






External links


Aurat at IMDb
Aurat at AllMovie
Full movie on YouTube

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mehboob Khan
• Paidi Jairaj
• Daftar film Bollywood pada tahun 1988
• Aurat (1940 film)
• Aurat
• Mehboob Khan
• Woman (disambiguation)
• Arun Kumar Ahuja
• Mother India
• List of Hindi films of 1940
• Sardar Akhtar
• Kanhaiyalal (actor)
• Babubhai Mehta