Kati Patang

Kati Patang Cut Kite is an 1970 Indian film produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. It was a box office success. The film stars Asha Parekh as a woman pretending to be a widow, and her ensuing trials and tribulations. The story, written by Gulshan Nanda, is based on the novel I Married a Dead Man, by Cornell Woolrich and had been previously made into a picture titled No Man of Her Own 1950 starring Barbara Stanwyck. The novel was also later filmed in Japanese as Shisha to no Kekkon 1960, in Brazilian as the TV miniseries A Intrusa 1962, in French as Jai pous une ombre I Married a Shadow 1983, and by Hollywood as Mrs. Winterbourne 1996.

Madhavi Asha Parekh is an orphan living with her maternal uncle, who arranges her marriage with someone she does not know. Blinded in love with Kailash Prem Chopra, she runs away from the marriage procession. She discovers Kailash in the arms of Shabnam Bindu. Heartbroken and dejected, she returns to her uncle, who committed suicide from the setback. Madhavi realizes that she has no one in life. So she decides to leave town and head somewhere. She meets her childhood friend Poonam uncredited who tells her about her husbands untimely demise in an accident and she is on her way, along with her baby boy Munna, to stay with her inlaws whom shes never met before. Poonam manages to compel Madhavi to accompany her as her plight is pitiful.En route Poonam and Madhavi chitchat until the train derails. Madhu and Poonam end up in a Government hospital. Poonam has lost her limbs. She knows that time is up, so takes an oath from Madhu that she will assume Poonams identity, bring Munna up and continue for her inlaws house. Madhu had no choice but to obey. On the way, the cabbie attempts to rob her until Kamal Rajesh Khanna, the forest ranger rescues her and gives her shelter until the skies are clear the next day. She soon learns that Kamal is the very man she was about to marry. ........

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