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| Movie name | Nastik |
| Starring |
Ajit
Nalini Jaywant
Raj Mehra
Ullhas
|
| Produce by | Filmistan |
| Release date | 1960 |
| Genre | Family Drama |
| Story | ANIL is one of the victims who suffer in the holocaust of religious riots that follow partition. He loses his parents and is stripped of his fortune though he manages to reach the Indian border with his younger sister Kamla and ailing baby brother Munna. God is just, He protects the innocent and punishes the guilty that is what Anil had believed, but where was God today, when those claiming to speak in His name were inciting man to become a beast. Wounded in mind and body and almost penniless, he seeks shelter in a dharamshala. Here his wounds are widened all the more by the hypocrisies of the so-called men of God. At the dharamshala his brother's condition suddenly becomes worse and at the instance of Kamla, he reluctantly goes to a nearby temple and requests the Mahant to come to the dharamshala and recite 'Ram-Jap' by the side of his dying brother. Anil being poor, the Mahant refuses to oblige and abuses him. Thereupon, Anil tries to take him by force but the Mahant raises a hue and cry and gets him arrested for attempted robbery. Anil does not get justice and is sentenced to one year's hard labour. By this time his brother dies. This enrages him and he takes a vow to avenge himself upon the Mahant for the death of his brother. Kamla, without anybody's help is reduced to beggary and is saved from suicide by an apparently kind 'rais ' called Kumar Sahib who compels her to take the profession of a dancing girl to suit his own ends. On his release from jail, Anil finds Kamla dancing at a party organised by Kumar Sahib. On seeing Anil, Kamla vainly explains to him the circumstances which forced her to adopt this profession but Anil is bitterly sorry at this and leaves her in a temper. Later on, Anil realises that Kamla is innocent and hastens to meet her only to find her dead &mdash |
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