- Ek Chadar Maili Si
Infobox Film
name = Ek Chadar Maili Si
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director = Sukhwant Dhadda
producer = G.M. Singh Nindrajog
writer = Phani Majumdar (Screenplay)
Makhan Singh (Screenplay)
Rajinder Singh Bedi (Story)
Madan Joshi (Dialogue)
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dialogue = Madan Joshi
starring =Hema Malini Rishi Kapoor Kulbhushan Kharbanda
music =Anu Malik
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cinematography =Shaji N. Karun
editing = Shubhash Sehgal
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released = 28 August 1986India
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country = IND
language =Hindi
imdb_id = 0377845Ek Chadar Maili Si is a 1986 film, directed by Sukhwant Dada, and is an adaptation of
Rajinder Singh Bedi 's classic Urdu novella, by the same name. [ [http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=22439 Ek Chadar Maili Si, The novel] ] The novel won the 1965Sahitya Akademi Award , and is considered author's finest work.It stars Hema Malini, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rishi Kapoor and Poonam Dhillon in lead roles. The film is known for its stellar performances by its lead cast and dramatic cinematography by Shahji N. Karun. [ [http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Ek_Chadar_Maili_Si-67263-1.html A review, Mouthshut.com] ]
Overview
Rajinder Singh Bedi, wanted to make this film himself, way back in the Sixties with
Geeta Bali andDharmendra in the lead, but with the death of Geeta Bali, the project was shelved. [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041205/spectrum/main1.htm Punjabi Film fare, The Tribune, Sunday, December 5, 2004] ]ynopsis
Rano (
Hema Malini ), a fiesty woman, lives in a village with her drunkard husband, Triloka (Kulbhushan Kharbanda ), and her two children. Her mother-in-law, Zinda (Dina Pathak ), constantly berates her for her inadequate dowry, even years after her marriage. Only her father-in-law, Hazur Singh (A. K. Hangal ), an old blind man, is kind towards her but can do little. The only member of family who can save her from the wrath of Triloka is her brother-in-law, Mangal (Rishi Kapoor ).One night Triloka drops a young girl left behind at the railway station to a nearby dharmshala. The next morning when the girl is found raped, her enraged brother kills Triloka in rage.
After her husband Triloka is murdered, Rano is forced to marry her younger brother-in-law, Mangal, her brother-in-law, who is a good ten years younger than her and whom she had looked upon as a son, through the ceremony of ‘chadar daalna’. The film derives its name from it.
Poonam plays Mangal's (Rishi Kapoor) love interest, who leaves the scene once Mangal gets married.
Cast
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Hema Malini
*Kulbhushan Kharbanda
*Rishi Kapoor
*Poonam Dhillon
*Dina Pathak
*A. K. Hangal References
External links
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* [http://picturesquepicture.blogspot.com/2007/10/ek-chadar-maili-si-1986.html A study of the film, "Ek Chadar Maili Si"]
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