Julie

<p>This film depicts the restrictive social conventions regarding inter-religion marriage and unwed motherhood in India. Julie is a girl with a loving, but alcoholic father, a dominating mother, a younger brother and sister. She falls in love with her best friend, Usha Bhattacharya’s brother Shashi Bhattacharya a boy. The lovers consummate their relationship, which leaves her pregnant. Shashi goes away to the city for corporate job, not knowing about her pregnancy. Her mother is distraught when Julie tells her about the pregnancy. They do not tell the rest of the family. Her mother thinks about getting Julie an abortion, but Ruby Aunty, a devout Christian, talks her out of it. Julie is sent away to have her baby in secret. The rest of the family is told that Julie got a job. After the baby’s birth, Julie’s mother arranges for the child to be left in an orphanage, and demands that Julie return home and forget about the baby. When Julie returns home, her father has died. She is now the primary breadwinner of the family. Later, she runs into Shashi and tells him everything. He then asks to marry her, but his mother, Devki, objects to the marriage as Julie is of a different faith. She blames Julie for seducing her son and having their baby. Julie’s mother does not want the union either, as it will be an inter-faith marriage, and she wants to return to . However, the wisdom of Shashi’s father prevails as he confronts the mothers’ prejudices regarding caste and religion, and urges them both to accept their grandchild. The film ends with the mothers offering their full blessings to the young couple, and Julie’s mother promising her grandson she will “never leave him.” The film’s won his first , for . was one of the top three best-selling of 1975, along with and . A remixed of “Dil Kya Kare” sung by appeared in the 1996 album . All Hindi lyrics were by , while the lyrics of “My Heart Is Beating” were written by . According to film and music expert Rajesh Subramanian Dil kya kare was penned by lyricist Anand Bakshi in less than ten minutes when the tune was played to him by composer Rajesh Roshan and his assistants. had one of the first English songs in an Indian film, “My Heart is Beating”, sung by .</p>