Keemti Aansoo(1935)

Name: Keemti Aansoo
Director: Chandulal Shah
Released: 1935-01-01
Duration: 154 min
Cast: Gohar Jan, Eddie Billimoria, Ishwarlal, Khatun, Ram Apte

Gohar Jan Eddie Billimoria Ishwarlal Khatun Ram Apte

A tearful melodrama about a progressive writer, Pushpa (Gohar), and her weak husband, Kulin (Billimoria). She has to fight her domineering mother-in-law and the tyrannies of a conservative household. When falsely accused of theft and infidelity by her wayward sister-in-law Gulab, Pushpa is forced out of the house. In her final state of penury, she recalls the examples of the great female Saint-Poets of Indian history, like Meerabai. Secondary characters are used to caricature Bombay's merchant class e.g. Mahatma Ramanand Adambar, a fortune-teller who suspects his wife of infidelity, and a gold collector called Prof. Pyarelal.