Achhoot Kanya
Achhut Kannya Hindi , Urdu , translation Untouchable Maiden is a 1936 Hindi film. Among the early superhits in the Bombay film industry, the film deals with the social position of Dalit girls and is considered a reformist periodpiece.
Pratap Ashok Kumar and Kasturi Devika Rani are childhood friends, deeply in love with each other. Unfortunately, Pratap is a Brahmin and Kasturi an untouchable achhut. Social mores of the time the movies is set in the distant past, probably before 1900 preclude any possibility of the two ever uniting.Pratap gets married to Meera Manorama, while Kasturi marries Manu Anwar. Both of them are unable to forget their first love, but try hard to make their respective marriages work. Unfortunately, the situation gets compounded by the fact that Manu has a first wife, Kajri, with whom he is estranged due to excessive interference from his inlaws. The hitherto smug Kajri suddenly feels threatened by the arrival of a new woman in her husbands life. ........
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