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Bahu Begum (1967)

Posted on September 8, 2014 by dustedoff

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…which could probably have been more appropriately titled How to Jump to Conclusions and Mess up Lives. Or Never Trust a Sinister Mamu. This is one Muslim social – a genre I have long admitted to being very fond of – which has been recommended to me so often, I’ve lost track of the recommendations. On the one hand, I wanted to see it because it has some lovely songs; on the other, the thought of watching Meena Kumari in one of her last few films – well, that wasn’t something I was really looking forward to with anticipation. But all those recommendations tilted the balance.

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Posted in Dusted Off Tagged Ashok Kumar, Bahu Begum, Balam, Bollywood, DK Sapru, film review, Hindi cinema, Indira Bansal, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Johnny Walker, Lalita Pawar, Leela Misra, Meena Kumari, Muslim social, Naaz, Pradeep Kumar, Roshan, Sahir Ludhianvi, Zeb Rehman

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