Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam

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Movie
Original title Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
Country of production India
original language English ,
Hindi
Publishing year 1962
length 152 minutes
Rod
Director Abrar Alvi
script Abrar Alvi based on a novel by Bimal Mitra
production Guru bun
music Hemant Kumar
camera VK Murthy
cut YG Chawhan
occupation

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam ( Hindi : साहिब बीबी और गुलाम , translated: owner, wife and slave ) is a Bollywood film from 1962. The story is based on the book of the same name by Bimal Mitra .

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Bengal late 19th century: Manjhle Babu and Chhote Sarkar, two brothers of the Choudhury family, inherited the Badi Haveli . Chhote is married to Chhoti Bahu, a beautiful middle-class woman. Yet she does not get the attention of her husband, who, as befits his class, treats her more like a maid. Every evening he has fun with women and alcohol in the brothel , while Chhoti remains lonely.

Then Bhoothnath appears, a middle-aged man who has traveled to Calcutta to look for work. He takes a job in Subinoy Babu's factory and falls in love with his young daughter, Jaba.

One night the servant of Chhote, Bansi, who is also related to Bhoothnath, takes him to Chhoti. Bhoothnath is immediately overwhelmed by her beauty and sadness and gives her the strength not to simply accept her husband's way of life: he helps her to win back her husband. Bhoothnath becomes her secret confidante.

Bhoothnath leaves town to train as an architect. During this time, Chhoti tries to win back her husband. But Chhoti's attempts are unsuccessful, until she reaches for alcohol herself to have Chhote Sarkar with her.

A few years later, Bhoothnath returns and is shocked by what he saw. Chhoti is desperately addicted to alcohol, as is her husband. She asks Bhoothnath to accompany her to a temple to pray for her husband. Their conversation is overheard by her brother-in-law, Manjhle Babu, who is furious. Thus, he orders a henchman to punish Chhoti for associating with strange men outside the Choudhury family.

When Chhoti and Bhoothnath set off with a cart, the cart is stopped. Bhoothnath is punched and passed out while Chhoti Bahu is kidnapped. After Bhoothnath wakes up in a hospital, he learns that Chhoti has disappeared and that her husband has passed away. Bhoothnath's workers inform him that they have found a skeleton in Badi Haveli . From the jewelry on the corpse, Bhoothnath realizes that these are the remains of Chhoti Bahu.

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The film was based on Bimal Mitra's novel Saheb Bibi Golam from 1952. The role of Chhoti Bahu was originally supposed to play Nargis , but she was prevented by the birth of her son Sanjay . The movie songs are sung by Asha Bhosle , Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar . The plot of the film is told as a flashback.

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam was India's 1963 Academy Awards nominee, but was not nominated.

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