Kitaab

Kitaab is a 1977 Hindi film written and directed by Gulzar. The film stars Uttam Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Shreeram Lagoo, Keshto Mukherjee and Asit Sen. The film was based on Bengali story Pathik by Samaresh Basu. Musical score is by R. D. Burman with lyrics by Gulzar.

One day Babla decides that he will be better off living with his mother in village. He runs off and get on a train. Since he does not have a ticket, the ticketmaster catches him and makes him get off on the next station. In the night he feels cold and looks around for shelter. He finds an old woman sleeping in a blanket and lies down besides her sharing the blanket. In the morning, finding the old woman still sleeping, he picks up a coin from her container and goes off to drink water. While drinking water he sees that lot of people have gathered around the old lady. He goes there and finds out that the lady he had been sleeping with was dead. He gets scared to his core and realizes that life is, in fact, not that simple for those who are poor. He puts back the coin he had taken and runs off to his mothers place. There he finds his mother, sister and brotherinlaw worrying about him. They are overjoyed to see Babla back and Babla promises to everyone that he will study sincerely and never create trouble for anyone.

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