Movie Name : Sujata

Producer : Bimal Roy Productions

Director : Bimal Roy

Music Director : S. D. Burman

Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri

Songs :

Jalte Hain Jiske Liya - Talat Mehmood

Kali Ghata Chhaye - Asha Bhosle (Click here to hear the sound)

Hawa Dheere Aana - Geeta Dutt

Bachpan Ke Din - Geeta Dutt & Asha Bhosle

Tum Jiyo Hazaro Saal - Asha Bhosle & Chorus

Wah Bahi Wah - Mohd. Rafi

Sun Mere Bandhu Re - S. D. Burman

Film Synopsis :

Sujata by Bimal Roy deals with untouchability and conveys a social message without being didactic.

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Roy's classic reformist melodrama about a Harijan (Untouchable) girl whose kinfolk die in a plague epidemic and is raised by an upper-class and caste family. Upendranath Choudhry and his wife Charu have a daughter, Rama (Shashikala), and they adopt Sujata (Nutan), the Harijan orphan. Later Sujata discovers the truth of her ancestry and must bear the demeaning treatment meted out by Charu and the family friend Giribala (Lalita Pawar), whose son Adhir (Sunil Dutt) is supposed to marry Rama but falls in love with Sujata. When Sujata donates blood to save Charu's life. even Charu has to abandon her caste prejudice. Nutan gives one of her best performances, surpassed only by her solo tour de force in Roy's Bandini (1963). Unfortunately the weak Adhir has to bear the burden of being the only representative of the progressive forces ranged against oppressive tradition. Presumably for its humanist message, the film includes a rather arbitrarily inserted but elaborate stage performance of Tagore's dance drama Chandralekha. Several classice numbers include Asha Bhosle's Kali ghata chhaye, composer S. D. Burman's solo Sun mere bandhu re and Talat Mahmood's Jalte hai jiske liye.

- Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema - Ashish Rajadhyaksha& Paul Willemen - New Revised Edition 1999-