Mausam means season! So why did the filmmaker give the movie that name? Like the changing of the seasons, the 'kids' are the reminder of and recurrence of the past!! [That is my best guess, you see!] I saw this movie about the same time as I saw the movie in the previous post 'Charitraheen'! And the main actors are the same. Sanjeev Kumar and Sharmila Tagore.]
[Young And The Restless - you may include this in your story line asap - yes, you must!!]
A medical student falls in love with a pretty lady when visiting a hill-station in Northern India. He leaves her pregnant and returns to Mumbai. There he accidentally kills a patient and is in jail for a few years. Meanwhile, the lady in the hill station awaits his return so they can marry and start a family. Years pass and she goes crazy when he does not return and becomes a mental patient. She does have a baby.
Twenty five years later, the doctor, now old and rich because of the pharma company he owns, returns to the hill station to rest and look for the lady from his youth. He talks to the locals and gets only tit bits of her whereabouts. Nobody knows where she she vanished. Then as he is purchasing a pain killer at a roadside chemist he sees a young woman kick a man out of the poor man's brothel. Her language is very rough. [Bollywood rules at the time did not allow such 'abusive' language on the screen.] The doctor is shocked to see her resemblance to his lady love from his youth. But this brothel lady is very young! How can that be ?
He walks into the brothel and requests for that lady he just saw. The lady answers that she is only available for business. He is embarrassed and walks out. But he is back couple of days later now worried about the well being of the lady !! He offers her madam the money she demands and brings the lady home for a few days. He asks her to dispose off her cheap clothes and makeup and buys her new saris appropriate for decent people!
The lady from the brothel falls in love with the old man. She confesses this to a friend and says now I want to be a mom. 'I have never felt like that before!' she says. She tries to kiss the old man. The old man gets enraged and throws her out of the house. 'Your thinking is never going to change. I am trying to rescue from the gutter but that is where you belong' !
So what is going on ? Why will the old man not allow the young lady, whom he 'procured' from the brothel, to get close to him ?
The answer is that the old man realizes almost as soon as he sees her that she might be his daughter. But he is reluctant to reveal that until he is sure of her opinion about him! She tells him that she wants to kill the guy who left her mother 25 years ago to bear the child all alone! She does not know he is her dad at the time.
But in the end she realizes that the old man is her dad and she has an old picture to confirm it. Now they are reconciled !!
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