College Girl

<p>In India, girls from their very birth are taken as a liability upon their parents; thus the mothers of the nation are looked down on in their own homes. Kamala represents such afflicted Indian girlhood. She is the daughter of Judge Ram Pershad who is illiterate and has orthodox views about girls. She stands first in the Matriculation Examination and has an ardent desire to study in college in order to become a doctor. Judge Ram Pershad is totally against college education for girls. It is his faith that any money spent on the sons alone is money well-spent merely because they are sons and will stand by him in his old age. Kamala is determined not to bow before injustice, but to secure her rightful place in society. She makes an all-out bid to join college with the contrivance of Dr. Ratanlal, a close friend of her father. In college, she comes across Shyam, who helps her in many difficult situations. The film marks the debut of as the choreographer, she trained actress . After the death of actor in 2011, interviewed actress in conjunction with a tribute to actor , she described the actor as “Whilst working in “College Girl”, he adopted a peculiar way of walking on his toes, which he effectively created himself”. At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed around 70,00,000 with net collection of 35,00,000, thus becoming the eighteenth highest-grossing film of 1960. gave it a verdict of “average”.</p>