Charitraheen means characterless. The hero is addressed as being characterless couple of times in the movies. But he is not. He falls in love with a pretty lady but his Hindu orthodox mother rejects the girl and sends her away without her son's permission. What could he do ? In a Hindu joint family system sons and daughters have to comply with the wishes of the elders of the family ! The hero is then married to another lady by the family and they have a peaceful existence. Almost, because there is that traditional villain who is his wife's brother. Our trusting hero hands over running the accounting part of this villain and looses everything !
Dejected he visits the local bar for a drink and a lady asks him to light her cigarette! He notices the strong resemblance to his friend from the yore, Ramma. His first love. But she exists as a club dancer now named Rosy. And she is very popular, you see. Our hero asks her ' Are you Ramma ? ' ' Ramma is dead. I am Rosy !' she replies with a sympathetic expression on her face.
However, he gets the real answer from the club song that follows:
'Your and my friendship is very old;
You are right, I am that girl of your dreams;
Many monsoons have come and gone (since we met);
I am that forgotten story in your life!'
What is so special of about this movie ?
It is sharp turn of a crying and sobbing heroine of Bollywood movies to a brave lady who survives any way she can ! Sharmila Tagore the actress who plays Ramma displays her vampish charm in the song (see the clip from Youtube) for the first time in her career.
It is a story of the acceptance of characters who do not fit into the traditional mold designed by the local societies and so are addressed as Charitraheen!
I remember watching this movie for the first time on the big screen in Mumbai when I was in school . [I wish it had a little more technical sophistication]. It seemed impressive on the big screen.
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