Sujata (film)

Infobox Film
name = Sujata


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director = Bimal Roy
producer = Bimal Roy
writer = Nabendu Ghosh (screenplay), Subodh Ghosh (story), Paul Mahendra (dialogue)
starring = Nutan
Sunil Dutt
Lalita Pawar
music = S.D. Burman
cinematography = Kamal Bose
editing = Amit Bose
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released = May 1960 (Cannes Film Festival)
runtime = 161 mins.
country = India
language = Hindi
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"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

Filmfare Awards

*Filmfare Best Actress Award - Nutan
*Filmfare Best Director Award - Bimal Roy
*Filmfare Best Movie Award - Bimal Roy
*Filmfare Best Story Award - Subodh Ghosh

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title=Filmfare Award for Best Film
years=1959
before="Madhumati"
after= "Mughal-E-Azam"