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FILMINDIA
January 1941
Damuanna Malwankar makes Navyug picture
" Lachhi, hitherto gay and carefree, now becomes an afflicted woman. The smile that used to light her fact; suddenly fades away with the thought of her carrying the sinful burden of Darpan's vindictive crime.
Lachhi is on the point of being a mother. The news, which she imparts to her old mother, kills the old woman and Lachhi is soon left under the protection of Thakur Balwant Rai her new brother-inlaw. Almost an orphan, with a secret which she cannot share even with her affectionate sister Rama, Lachhi passes her days with sobs and tears. This enrages the Thakui who speaks rudely to her and asks her to go out of the house.
A MOTHER IN SECRET
In the night Lachhi escapes and takes refuge in a forest shrine where an old Pujarin gives her shelter and offers protection. There, away from the prying eyes of the world, Lachhi becomes a mother. She names the daughter, Bina.
As the daughter grows up, Lachhi recovers a bit of her old gaiety but one day she meets a traveller who carries news of hei hiding place to her sis'er Rama.
comedy in "Lagna Pahawe Karun" a at the West End Cinema.
Rama comes to take her sister back and for fear of exposing her child Lachhi returns home with Rama, leaving the child in charge of the Pujarin.
But that very night a storm
breaks out and the young mother can't stay away from her li'.tle babe The craving of her erstwhile warm womb drives her through storm and rain back to her daughter and once again the mother and the child are united. But Rama follows her sister to dissuade her from her madness and arrives at the temple to find a lovely little baby sleeping on Lachhi's motherly breasts.
Rama, whose ideas of family honour were orthodox and puritanic, is staggered at the sight of an illegitimate child and in merciless words she condemns her own sister, but Lachhi prays for forgiveness. Relentlessly, Rama wants to know the name of the monster who forced the sin on Lachhi and when Lachhi mentions Darpan, Rama is stunned.
The next minute Rama becomes like a mad tigress robbed of her prey. She accuses Lachhi of stealing her lover and with one venom on another she curses her sister and leaves.
A MOTHER INCOGNITO
Some time later, Rama's husband and child die and now she is left alone, ill and without solace. Lachhi,
This seems to be an eating situation in "Puja" a National picture
at the Pathe.
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