# Bahurani (1963 film)

Bahurani (transl. Daughter-in-law) is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by T. Prakash Rao. It stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Feroz Khan in pivotal roles. It is a remake of the Telugu movie Ardhangi, which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel Swayamsiddha written by Manilal Banerjee. Swayamsiddha went on to be adapted into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name and later in Hindi as Jyoti in 1981. Ardhangi was also remade earlier in Tamil as Pennin Perumai.

## Plot

Zamindar has two sons — Raghu, by his first wife and Vikram, by his second wife. Raghu is a simple-minded and innocent young man. Vikram is cruel, domineering, selfish and greedy and he maltreats everyone, from servants to his own brother Raghu. Vikram's vicious mother Rajeshwari does the same.
After Vikram has a feud with a tough and smart village girl named Padma, who is the first person to ever confront him, Zamindar gets the idea of marrying Vikram and Padma. Vikram refuses and after a series of incidents, Padma marries Raghu instead. When she understands how her husband has been treated over the years, she vows to set things right and in the process falls in love with him. Inspired by her love, fearlessness and no-nonsense attitude, Raghu begins to find the courage to resist his oppressors.

## Cast

* Guru Dutt as Raghu
* Mala Sinha as Padma
* Feroz Khan as Vikram
* Nazir Hussain as Zamindar
* Lalita Pawar as Rajeshwari
* Shivraj as Diwan
* Mukri as Sukhiya
* Agha as Banwarilal
* Badri Prasad as Vaid
* Shyama as Chanda Bai
* Manorama as Chanda's Mother
* Pratima Devi as Dai Maa
* Nazir Kashmiri as Kalicharan

## Awards

* Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award - Mala Sinha

## Music

The songs were composed by C. Ramchandra with lyrics authored by Sahir Ludhianvi.
| Song | Singer |
| "Eetal Ke Ghal Mein Teetal" | Hemant Kumar |
| "Umra Hui Tumse Mile, Phir Bhi Jane Kyun" | Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar |
| "Main Jagoon Saari Rain" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Balma Anari Man Bhaye" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Bane Aisa Samaaj, Mile Sab Ko Anaaj, Na Ho Loot, Na Ho Phoot, Na Ho Jhuth To Ji Kaisa Ho" | Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey |
| "Yeh Husn Mera, Yeh Ishq Tera" | Asha Bhosle |
| "Kaam Krodh Aur Lobh" | Mahendra Kapoor |

## Other versions

The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Cast | Cast |
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Step-mother | Son | Wife |
| 1955 | Ardhangi | Telugu | P. Pullaiah | Santha Kumari | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Savitri |
| 1956 | Pennin Perumai | Tamil | P. Pullaiah | Santha Kumari | Sivaji Ganesan | Savitri |
| 1969 | Mallammana Pavaada | Kannada | Puttanna Kanagal | Advani Lakshmi Devi | Rajkumar | B Sarojadevi |
| 1975 | Swayamsiddha | Bengali | Sushil Mukherjee | | Ranjit Mallick | Mithu Mukherjee |
| 1981 | Jyothi | Hindi | Pramod Chakravorty | Shashikala | Jeetendra | Hema Malini |
| 1987 | Enga Chinna Rasa | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | C. R. Saraswathy | K. Bhagyaraj | Radha |
| 1992 | Beta | Hindi | Indra Kumar | Aruna Irani | Anil Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit |
| 1993 | Abbaigaru | Telugu | E. V. V. Satyanarayana | Jayachitra | Venkatesh | Meena |
| 1993 | Annayya | Kannada | D. Rajendra Babu | Aruna Irani | V. Ravichandran | Madhoo |
| 1998 | Santan | Oriya | | Snigdha Mohanty | Siddhanta Mahapatra | Rachana Banerjee |