Achhut Kanya (अछूत कन्या) 1936

Published on November 2, 2012 in Cinema

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Banner	Bombay Talkies Workers Industrial Co-Operative Society
Director	Franz Osten
Writer	Niranjan Pal
Producer	Himanshu Rai
Orginal music	Saraswati Devi
Cinematography	Josef Wirsching
Film Editing	Dattaram Pai
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Playback Singers	Devika Rani, Ashok Kumar, Saraswati Devi

Character	Actor / Actress
Kasturi	Devika Rani
Pratap	Ashok Kumar
Meera	Monorama
Kajri	Pramila
Dukhia	Kamta Prasad
Kalyani	Kusum Kumari
(as Anweri)	Anwari Begum
Mohan	P.F. Pithawala
Babulal	Kishori Lal
Sukhlal	Ishrat
Police Inspector	N.M. Joshi
Patient	Khosla
Dancer	Mumtaz Ali
Dancer	Sunita Devi

A circular story, told in flashback, in which eternal repetition is only interrupted by death in the form of a relentlessly linear railway engine. The film opens at a railway crossing where a man is about to kill his wife when the narrative spins into the past via a song. The central story is of the unhappy love affair between Kasturi, the Harijan (Untouchable) daughter of the railway level-crossing guard Dukhia, and Pratap, the Brahmin son of the grocer Mohan. At first, rumor and mob violence are deployed to lethal effect in order to maintain a 'traditional', oppressive morality. Later, when the main protagonists are about to conform and marry selected partners, rumor and maliciousness again intervene to trigger renewed violence until the on-rushing train of fate stops the strife.