Directed : Govind Moonis
Produced : Tarachand Barjatya
Starring : Sachin Pilgaonkar Sachin, Sadhana Singh
Music : Ravindra Jain
Distributed : Rajshri Productions
Release date(s) : 1982
Story :
A farmer somewhere from Eastern UP lives with his two nephews. He falls ill and is treated by a Vaidya who comes from another village. When the farmer feels okay,he asks the Vaidya for his fees. In return, the Vaidya asks for his son as his son-in-law to which farmer readily agrees. The farmer’s eldest son Omkar (played by Inder Thakur) marries Vaidya ‘s elder daughter Roopa and they start living happily. Roopa gives birth to a baby. During Roopa’s pregnancy her younger sister Gunja (Sadhana Singh) comes to live with her and falls in love with Roopa’s brother-in-law Chandan (Sachin). Roopa comes to know of this and assures them that she will get them married, but she dies in an accident soon and nobody else knows about their affair. Their parents mutually decide to get Gunja married off to Omkar so that she could take care of her sister’s baby. But in the last moments of the movie, their affair comes to everyone’s notice and things are resolved. Chandan marries Gunja ultimately with everybody’s consent.
The story is short and simple. Uttar Pradesh’s village culture and dialect is shown in this movie as it is without any alteration. It is based on a Hindi novel by Keshav Prasad Mishra called “Kohbar Ki Shart”. The movie captures only the first half of the novel with the change that Gunja gets married to Chandan in the movie. In the novel, the proposed marriage between Gunja and Omkar does take place and the story continues after that.
Acting by Sachin, Sadhana Singh, Sheela David, Leela Mishra and other actors is just great. They look like real characters. Direction is wonderful. Songs are timeless. Inder Thakur, who played the role of Omkar, was on the passenger list of Air India Flight 182. He will always be remembered for his role in Nadiya ke Paar. Sadhana Singh married into the Royal family of Varanasi after this movie’s success. She made a come back to acting in the popular TV serial Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin as Jassi’s mother.