Rent Namoona (1949)
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1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
The story of 'Namoona' begins with a dramatic performance in aid of refugees. The chief participants in this show are Relchu (Kamini Kaushal) grand daughter of one Baba Devdas (Sanyal) supposed to be a man of great pomp and circumstance; Jeevan (Dev Anand) - a refugee boy who has lost his all in the Punjab holocaust and is beginning life anew as a student of the same college where Rekha studies, and Barrister Kedar (Kishore Sahu), Advocate General of the City a man of high birth, higher education and highest intellectual achievements. He has spent a considerable part of his life in the progressive and intellectual centres of the West and has come to be a sort of Social Automation i.e. a person who through the process of intellectual evolution has attained that stage of detachment when emotions count for nothing and one looks at life and its problems from a cold-blooded, logical, non-moral and utilitarian angle. He is made the President of the performance. Her first introduction attracts Rekha towards Jeevan and a mere acquittance soon develops into intimacy, which in turn yields place to infatuation. But the course of her love is not destined to have the smooth, sailing as she imagines. Anon comes the rift in the lute and impediments creep in from everywhere. Her birth becomes a controversial point. Frustration overtakes her while Jeevan finds himself wedded to calamity. Baba's dreams are shattered, for he had set his hopes on Barrister Kedar as the husband of Rekha. But this was not to be. Babu Devdas is implicated into a murder trial. It is a sensational case wherein his prestige-nay, entire life- is at stake. The court meets and a woman-haggard, disheveled and downcast, appears in the witness box. She Shyama (Leela Chitnis). She claims to be the mother of Rekha. She recounts her woe-begotten past and her tale gets the house sobbing. She says how utter penury and destitution had forced her to accept the position of a maid servant in the house of a wealthy merchant who forced her to eat the forbidden fruit. Rekha was the symbol of that first sin in life. The statement quakes Kedaf's uncle and aunt to the marrow. Could Kedar ever be betrothed to the living shame of a spinster. - Actors:
- Kishore Sahu, Kamini Kaushal, Leela Chitnis, Madan Puri, Gulab, Pratima Devi, Shyama, Sanyal, Sailen Bose, Uma Dutt, Nirjan, Narbada Shankar, Shanti Madhok, Swartha, Cuckoo, Dev Anand, Vimal, Vimal Chadha
- Directors:
- Hira Singh
- Producers:
- S.R. Bhattacharya, C.R. Shah
- Writers:
- Mohanlal Bajpai, J.C. Jain
- Studio:
- Tip Top Entertainment
- Genres:
- Bollywood
- Collections:
- inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2
- Countries:
- India
