Meera

<p>The story is set around 1480, in the time of King . Biramdev ( ) is the king of Medta, a province in . He has two daughters, Meera ( ) and Krishna ( ) and a son, Jaimal ( ). Meera is in deep emotional love with , so much so that she considers Lord Krishna to be her husband. Akbar ( ) is becoming stronger day by day and hence other small provinces are trying to join against him. Medta, in one such political agreement, decides to join hands with Raja Vikramajit ( ). As a part of this agreement Meera is married (against her wish) to Vikramajit’s son, Rana Bhojraj ( ). But even after getting married her love for Lord Krishna remains the same and she follows her own ideals and way of living which are not very acceptable to Bhojraj and his family. One thing leads to another and one day Meera is declared as an outcast and traitor who failed to play a wife’s duties towards her husband, a bride’s duties towards her family, and a woman’s duties towards society. She is jailed and a public trial is ordered to decide her fate. But Meera is still unshakable and her spirituality keeps her going. She is not even afraid of death. Finally she is given a death sentence and is ordered to drink a cup of venom in front of the public. The love between Meera devi and Lord Krishna is so unshakeable that even the venom does not affect her. She walks out of the royal court after drinking the venom singing Lord Krishna’s praises. The entire town follows her, completely absorbed in her kirtan (devotional song). She enters the Krishna temple and becomes one with Lord Krishna. Film’s costume designer used changing hues of Meera saris to show her spiritual evolution rather dissolving into Krishna. Starting with vibrant colours as a princess, she leave the palace in orange (bhagwa), gradually shifting to yellow, fawn and finally to much paler beige colour. All lyrics are written by ; all music is composed by . This article about a Hindi film of the 1970s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>