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| Directed by | Gyan Mukherjee, S. Bannerjee |
| Written by | Gyan Mukherjee |
| Produced by | Ghanshyam Das Maya Art Pictures |
| Starring | Meena Kumari Karan Dewan |
| Music by | Roshan |
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| Language | Hindi |
Madhu is a 1959 Indian Hindi-language film starring Meena Kumari and Karan Dewan in lead roles. [1] The film is directed by Gyan Mukherjee and S. Banerjee. Its music is composed by Roshan.
Madhu a daughter of a village Purohit and Vijay son of the Zamindar are in deep love. When Zamindar learns about this, he orders Vijay to go to Lucknow and tells the purohit to take some money and marry Madhu off to someone else immediately. Vijay escapes from the train, returns to Madhu's house and convinces purohit to marry him to Madhu immediately, promising to change Zamindar's mind. They get married and celebrate 'Suhag Raat', too. Then Vijay returns to Lucknow. The wicked Munim who had accompanied him to Lucknow, informs Zamindar, who rushes to Lucknow. He intercepts the letters of the newlyweds. Thus Madhu is stranded, without any news from Vijay and Vijay does not know that she is carrying his child. Zamindar fixes Vijay's marriage to another girl. Vijay rushes to his village only to find that due to social stigma of unwed motherhood, Madhu has left the town in his search. Also his friend Shambhu is in Lucknow to find him. The rest of the story takes the beaten track of a married couple missing each other, the father falling sick, Madhu nursing him to recovery, change of heart by the father and reunion of the husband and wife with a child as a bonus.
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