| Ek Chadar Maili Si | |
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| Directed by | Sukhwant Dhadda |
| Produced by | G.M. Singh Nindrajog |
| Written by | Phani Majumdar (Screenplay) Makhan Singh (Screenplay) Rajinder Singh Bedi (Story) Madan Joshi (Dialogue) |
| Starring | Hema Malini Rishi Kapoor Kulbhushan Kharbanda Poonam Dhillon |
| Music by | Anu Malik |
| Cinematography | Shaji N. Karun |
| Editing by | Shubhash Sehgal |
| Release date(s) | 28 August 1986 India |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Ek 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 name.[1] The novel won the 1965 Sahitya 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 performances by its lead cast and cinematography by Shahji N. Karun.
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Rajinder Singh Bedi, wanted to make this film himself, way back in the Sixties with Geeta Bali and Dharmendra in the lead, but with the death of Geeta Bali, the project was shelved.[2]
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 (Niyoga). The film derives its name from it.
Raji(Poonam Dhillon) a Banjaran Girl, Mangal's (Rishi Kapoor) love interest, who leaves the scene once Mangal gets married.
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