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Badal (1952) - 1952 [DVD] |
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UnRated |
Year : |
1952 |
Playtime : |
131 Minutes |
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Hindi |
Genre : |
Drama |
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Badal is the name of a young man of the soil reeved up to believe in the mercies of God, in the love of this neighbours, and a firm loyalty to his King.
The story opens on a sultry afternoon. Badal returns home with medicine for his ailing father only to find that there is no home for him. Jaisingh, the right hand man of the jagirdar, is there to attach the house for non payment of revenue. Mayna his childhood friend, gives him shelter. But from deep down his soul, hatred begins to well up against the heartless tyrants and Badal becomes a rebel, " robbing the rich to feed the poor".
At this epoch, Ratna, the lovely daughter of the Jagirdar, is captured by the rebels in the absence of Badal. Badal takes his men to task and rescues Ratna from his own den in the disguise of a gay cavalier. Ratna loses her heart for the man. Badal is not indifferent to her, while poor mayna bears the pangs with silent fortitude.
While Badal becomes the idol of the oppressed people and remains uncaptured, the king threatens the Jagirdar which expulsion. Ratna, to save her father from disgrace, seeks the help of the gay cavalier to capture the out-law. A queer manipulation of fate brings badal face to face with Jai Singh & he stands helplessly revealed in front of the girl who loves him.
Shamed and humiliated Ratna walks out of the life of the out-law. But hatred turns into repentance when Ratna learns from Mayna the tragic story of badal and the tyranny to his own father.
To solve the problem, Ratna pleads for badal's amnesty. Jai singh plays up on the pardon and when badal comes to surrender he is clamped into prison but Ratna manages to set badal free.
When King gets the news, of Badal's escape, he decides to investigate the matter himself. Dressed up as a prosperous merchant, he goes into the mountain haunts of the rebels and allows himself to be captured by them. But what he sees there of the outlaws surprises him beyond measure.
What follows only proves how on intrepid soul in its fearless pursuit of Truth and Justice will, inevitably triumpth. |
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