Julie (1975 film)

Julie is a 1975 Hindi film that stars Lakshmi in the title role paired opposite Vikram. It also stars Nadira, and Sridevi as a child star. The film became a box office hit.

This film depicts the restrictive social conventions regarding intercaste marriage and unwed motherhood in India. Julie Laxmi is a Christian AngloIndian girl with a loving, but alcoholic, father Om Prakash, a dominating mother Nadira, a younger brother and sister Sridevi. She falls in love with her best friends Rita Bhaduri brother Shashi Bhattacharya Vikram Makandar, a Hindu boy. The lovers consummate their relationship, which leaves her pregnant. Shashi goes away to college, not knowing about her pregnancy. Her mother is distraught when Julie tells her about the pregnancy. They dont tell the rest of the family. Her mother thinks about getting Julie an abortion, but a devout Christian Sulochana talks her out of it. Julie is sent away to have her baby in secret. The rest of the family is told that Julie got a job. After the babys birth, Julies mother arranges for the child to be left in an orphanage, and demands that Julie return home and forget about the baby.When Julie returns home, her father has died. She is now the primary earner in the family. Later, she runs into Shashi and tells him everything. He then asks to marry her, but his mother objects to the marriage as Julie is of a different faith. She blames Julie for seducing her son and having the baby. Julies mother doesnt want the union either, as it will be an interfaith marriage, and she wants to return to England. However, the wisdom of Shashis father Utpal Dutt prevails as he confronts the mothers prejudices regarding caste and religion, and urges both to accept their grandchild. The film ends with the mothers offering their full blessings to the young couple, and Julies mother promising her grandson she will never leave him. ........

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