Kamla (film)

Kamla is a 1985 Hindi film produced and directed by Jagmohan Mundhra, starring Deepti Naval, Shabana Azmi, and Marc Zuber in lead roles. The film is titled after the character of Naval.

Upon its release, Kamla received rave reviews. The Times of India in a review stated, Deepti Naval is called to widen her eyes, tremble like a scared rabbit and drop pearly smiles. To her credit, she performs these chores competently. The Indian Express wrote, Mundhara is to be complimented on getting two credible perhaps notable performances from Deepti Naval and Marc Zuber whose talents have so far been pretty well concealed.The movie is inspired by a real life expose by the journalist Ashwin Sarin, of The Indian Express. In the expose he actually bought a girl from the rural flesh market, from a village of dholpur rajsthan for an amount of Rs20000 . He presented the woman at a press conference. ........

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