== Babasa Ri Laadi ==

1961 ?’ b&w/col Rajasthani

d B.K. Adarsh

pc Adarshlok

st/co-dial/lyr Pandit Indra co-dial Naval Mathur

c D.R. Dadhicha

m Shivram

lp P. Kailash, Hiralal, Rajkumar, Mohan Modi,
Rajdeep, Kiran Lal, Saraswati Devi, Sarita Devi,
Champak Lala, Dhannalal, Helen, Nana 
Palsikar 

The second Rajasthani film (after G.P. Kapoor’s 
Nazrana, 1942) and its first hit. Feudal 
melodrama about the virtuous landlord 
Dharamdas, representing an idealised Marwari 
business community, who adopts a deceased 
employee’s daughter, Saraswati. She and 
Dharamdas’s son Ramesh fall in love, but her 
villainous uncle, who wants Ramesh to marry 
his flippant daughter Vaijayanti, uses his 
familial authority to arrange Saraswati’s 
marriage with the handicapped son of a greedy 
shah. The tragic consequences of feudal 
patriarchal powers are eventually overcome 
and the lead couple unite in the end.

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