Sadma
Sadma Hindi English Trauma is a 1983 Indian film directed by Balu Mahendra which stars Kamal Hassan and Sridevi in the lead with music composed by Ilayaraaja. The picture tells the story of Nehalata Sridevi, a young woman who regresses to childhood after suffering a head injury in a car crash. Lost, she ends up trapped in a brothel before being rescued by Somu Kamal Haasan, a lonely school teacher who falls in love with her.
Nehalata Sridevi is a young, modern girl who meets with an accident that leaves her with the memory and intelligence of a sevenyearold. Circumstances lead her into prostitution, and in the brothel she meets Somu Kamal Haasan. He realizes that she has been tricked into the trade. He rescues her and takes her to his home in Ooty and begins to take care of her. He knows Nehalata as Reshmi, which was the pseudonym given to her at the brothel. Reshmi reciprocates Somus care as they spend several months together sharing an amazing and innocent relationship that treads the tender line between affection and love. The subplot of the film follows the wife of Somus boss who is attracted to Somu, though Somu doesnt reciprocate her feelings. It depicts how the outside world succumbs to carnal desires which have no place in Somu and Reshmis relationship. Somu takes Reshmi to the villages medical practitioner who cures her and brings her back to sanity as she regains her memory up to the point of her accident. When Somu comes to meet Reshmi later that day, she is unable to identify or remember him. Despite his efforts to make her understand that he was the one who had taken care of her for several months, she is indifferent to him and leaves Ooty for her hometown, thus abandoning Somu and the life and relationship that she once had with him.All music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, who retained most of his compositions from the original Tamil version except Vaanengum and Poongatru. The film marked the composers debut in Bollywood. ........
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