Sujata (film)

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Sujata

Directed by	Bimal Roy
Produced by	Bimal Roy
Written by	Nabendu Ghosh (screenplay), Subodh Ghosh (story), Paul Mahendra (dialogue)
Starring	Nutan Sunil Dutt Lalita Pawar
Music by	S.D. Burman
Cinematography	Kamal Bose
Editing by	Amit Bose
Release date(s)	May 1960 (Cannes Film Festival)
Running time	161 mins.
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Sujata is a 1959 Hindi language Bimal Roy film. The film starred Sunil Dutt and Nutan supported by Lalita Pawar and Shashikala The film explored the situation of caste in India. The music is by S. D. Burman and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri

Plot

Sujata is a romance between a Brahmin young man, Adheer (Sunil Dutt) and an untouchable woman, Sujata (Nutan). The movie has Gandhi's fight against untouchability and the myth of Chandalika in Buddhism as its subtexts on the basis of which it tries to criticize the practice of untouchability in India.

Brahmin couple Upen and Charu bring up the orphaned Sujata. Although Upen is fond of the adoptive child, his wife Charu and mother can never fully embrace Sujata because she is an untouchable. They never fail to remind Sujata that she doesn't belong amongst Brahmins. One day, Upen's wife falls down the stairs and is rushed to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that in order to save Charu, they need blood of a rare group. Only Sujata's blood matches, and she willingly donates blood. When Upen's wife knows that her life was saved by Sujata, she realizes her mistakes and accepts her as her daughter. Sujata and Adheer are finally married