Babul (1950 film)

Babul Hindi , Urdu or Fathers House is a 1950 Bollywood film directed by S.U. Sunny produced and with music direction by Naushad. The film stars Dilip Kumar, Munawar Sultana and Nargis. A boxoffice success, the film became the second highest earning film of 1950, earning an approximate gross of Rs. 1,25,00,000 and a nett gross of Rs. 70,00,000.

Bela has competition from the wealthy landowner Jamnadass daughter Usha, who lives a lavish lifestyle in a hilltop mansion. Usha, drives a foreign car and seems more suitable for Ashok the young postmaster. They share a love of fine art and music, and Usha falls in love with his singing and arranges for him to give her music lessons on her grand piano in a boudoir adorned with fine art. Bela, heartbroken, in a fit of jealousy intervenes by lying to Usha that Ashok has already professed his love for her and is playing a double game. In a surprising display of classtranscending understanding, Usha agrees to renounce her love for Ashok in favor of Belas claim, and to accept a proposal from the aristocratic son of one of her fathers colleagues. As Ushas wedding approaches, both she and Ashok become depressed and Bela has recurring nightmares of a blackveiled rider coming to carry her away.Bela witnesses Ushas wedding while sitting in a tree, believing that shortly afterwards she would be married off to Ashok. But the tree branch that she is sitting on breaks and she falls to the ground, severely injured. As she is brought back to her fathers home in this condition, Ashok arrives and promises her father he would marry Bela. As Ashok sits on Belas bedside to comfort her, Bela dreams again that the blackveiled rider has come to get her and dies. ........

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