Anamika

<p>Devendra Dutt, also known as Deven, is a famous and a raging , who portrays women as untrustworthy in all his novels, and lives with his uncle, Shiv Prasad, and young niece, Dolly in . One night, while returning home from a felicitation ceremony, Deven and Shiv Prasad witness a young girl being thrown out of a moving car and falling unconscious on the road. Deven grows suspicious and decides to approach the police, but Shiv Prasad insists that they take her home and give her , to which Deven unwillingly agrees. The next morning, the young girl regains consciousness, but cannot remember anything from the past, not even her name – shockingly except that she is Deven’s wife, “Mrs. Devendra Dutt”. Everyone tries to convince her otherwise, but she firmly insists that she is in her own home and married to Deven. As a result, Deven’s doctor, Dr. Irshad Hussain, her with both and , since hundreds of young girls write to Deven, proposing him for marriage and even talking about how they are related to him since births. Deven and Shiv Prasad post an for the young girl in the , but receive no response. Seeing her fragile state, Shiv Prasad, Dr. Irshad and the police decide to allow her to stay until someone arrives for her. Deven is against this decision and believes that the young girl is just trying to dupe them for some money, but names her “Anamika” (meaning “a nameless woman”). Soon, Anamika takes control of Deven’s house and Dolly becomes her close friend and confidante. However, Deven hates Anamika and always keeps her at a distance, causing Dr. Irshad to advise him that his harshness could bring Anamika further , but it turns out to be a ruse by him and Shiv Prasad in order to make Deven get rid of his attitude. Despite his initial hatred towards women, Deven gradually mellows down and grows close to Anamika, secretly wishing she would stay at his house forever and even refusing to hand her over to the police. Shortly, things take a turn when Naresh, the son of Deven’s , Daulat Ram, arrives to hand over the copies of Deven’s latest novel, , and also a . He mysteriously identifies Anamika, about whom he has an unpleasant memory, but keeps the truth a secret from Deven, while Anamika shows no identification to Naresh. That night, Naresh sends his henchmen to kidnap Anamika, but Deven intervenes on time and saves Anamika from them, causing Naresh’s henchmen to escape. On Shiv Prasad’s suggestion, Deven takes Anamika on a holiday to in order to help her in her fragile recovery. There, Deven is surprised to discover Anamika’s in a , and tracks the hotel of which the address is in its register. On further enquiry about the photograph at the hotel, the of it remembers Anamika as “Mrs. Kanchan Malhotra”, the wife of a businessman named Ganga Prasad Malhotra. Though heartbroken by the realisation that Anamika is already married, Deven obtains Malhotra’s address from the receptionist and cuts the trip to Shimla short. On returning to Mumbai with Anamika, Deven meets Malhotra at his office, only to learn from him that Kanchan is actually not his wife, but his employee who had accompanied him on his holiday to Shimla the previous year. On Malhotra’s advice, Deven proceeds to meet an attractive dancer named Rubai, who informs him that Kanchan is a who used to work for her. Deven, already being supposedly deceived by a girl named Sapna four years prior, feels conned and believes that Anamika, like all other girls, is immoral and after his money. As a result, a disturbed and anguished Deven banishes Anamika from his house and even refuses to hear her side, disappointing both Shiv Prasad and Dolly. After leaving from Deven’s house, Anamika is promptly kidnapped and imprisoned at an isolated house in by Naresh’s henchmen. At this point, Anamika’s real name is revealed to be “Archana”, and Naresh forces her to hand him over back all his property, which his own father had transferred into her name before dying from paralysis. Although Archana signs the documents, Naresh’s property , Advocate Mehra, refuses to betray Daulat Ram and begins a scuffle with Naresh, which results in a big . Mehra burns the property documents in it and escapes with Archana, while Naresh is trapped behind in the fire. Meanwhile, Shiv Prasad, who still has faith in Anamika, shows Deven a newspaper about her, where she is identified by her true identity as Archana, who is receiving an for on behalf of her late mother, Saraswati Devi, from an institute in Delhi. An unconvinced Deven reluctantly travels to Delhi to investigate the truth about Anamika, but is unable to receive any information from the institute. However, he is fortunate to meet Anamika again at the celebration of his publishers in Delhi. Unfortunately, she refuses to identify Deven this time and is now introduced to him as “Mrs. Kashyap”, the new owner of the publishing firm. A perplexed Deven follows Anamika to her house in Delhi and confronts her over her multiple identities, pleading with her to confess the truth about herself. Here, Anamika accuses him of distrusting all women over a heartbreak, but finally narrates her ill-fated past to Deven in a . An ardent of Deven’s novels, Archana was infatuated with him since college. However, incessantly pursued by her classmate, Naresh, and helpless by her poverty, which was worsened when her mother was diagnosed with , she agreed for an . On her , Archana discovered that she was married to Naresh’s older brother, who deserted her the same night, believing himself undeserving of Archana. Naresh exploited his brother’s absence and continued to harass Archana, whose husband ended up committing . Unable to bear the shock, Daulat Ram became paralysed and handed over all his property to Archana, as Naresh was always imperfect for that responsibility. Meanwhile, Archana’s mother finally succumbed to her and died, and Naresh tried to the grieving Archana one night. As a result, Archana escaped from Naresh’s house and met Rubai, with whose help she joined Malhotra’s company by the name of Kanchan in order to start afresh. On a holiday to Shimla with Malhotra, where they both checked into the hotel as a couple, Malhotra tried to take advantage of Archana, and when she resisted, he blamed her for the incident. After Archana quit her job for Malhotra, Rubai outwardly sympathised with her and allowed her to stay in what she claimed was the of working girls. A few days later, Archana got arrested with the rest of the girls at the hostel in a , which is when she realised that she had been staying at a . However, she was eventually by the police, based on the of the other inmates and her own testimony against Rubai in the court. Rubai tried to seek revenge from Archana for this and sent her henchmen to murder her. While Rubai’s henchmen were kidnapping her, Archana jumped out of their moving car and fell unconscious on the street the night Deven and Shiv Prasad found her. When she regained consciousness and discovered that she was at her favourite author’s house, Archana felt as if fate had suddenly smiled on her and decided to stay, come what may, causing her to act of being Deven’s wife. In the present, Anamika admits to Deven that she has no evidence to prove everything she has revealed about herself. However, seeing her tear-filled eyes, Deven believes her and empathises with her, pleading forgiveness and reconciling with Anamika. Just then, a severely burnt Naresh, who had survived the house fire, barges into the house and attacks them both, in an attempt to rape and murder Anamika. After a prolonged pursuit in a darkened house, Naresh gets to death in , and Deven and Anamika are finally united. The musical instrument duggi was played by for the song “Bahaon Mein Chale Aao”. All lyrics are written by ; all music is composed by .</p>