Dharmputra

<p>The film opens in 1925, during the and at the height of the it is the tale of two families, that of Nawab Badruddin and Gulshan Rai. The two families are so close that they virtually share the same house. The Nawab’s daughter, Husn Bano, has an affair with a young man named Javed and gets pregnant. When the Nawab attempts to arrange her marriage with Javed, he finds that Javed has disappeared. Amrit Rai and his wife Savitri assist Husn with the birth of a baby boy, Dilip, and even adopt him and give him their family name. Young Dilip is the apple of the Badruddin and the Rai households. Husn is then reunited and marries Javed. In the meantime, while participating in a protest to force the British to leave India, the Nawab is killed. Years later, Husn Bano and Javed return to a warm welcome by the Rai family. Then she meets Dilip – not the Dilip she had left behind – this Dilip is fascist, a Muslim-hater, who has joined forces with other extremists, in order to force Muslims to leave India and even go to the extent of burning buildings and killing them. How can Husn and Dilip adapt to each other with so much hate and distrust between them? The film’s music was composed by with lyrics written by . The raw reconstruction of partition riots and sloganeering led to riot-like situations at theatres during screening the film, and the film flopped at the box office. After s debacle, few directors ventured into the communal theme in that took it so bluntly, the next film which dealt with the issue was , by , made in 1973. The film’s director Yash Chopra never made a political film again, and stuck to love stories till many decades later, when he touched the theme of religious harmony again with (2004). This article about a Hindi film of the 1960s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>