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+'''Ram Teri Ganga Maili'''
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+1985 178’ col/scope Hindi
+d/st/ed Raj Kapoor pc RK Films and Studios
+p Randhir Kapoor co-sc/dial K.K. Singh
+co-sc Jyoti Swaroop, V.P. Sathe
+co-lyr/m Ravindra Jain co-lyr Hasrat Jaipuri,
+Ameer Qazalbaksh c Radhu Karmakar
+lp Rajiv Kapoor, Mandakini, Divya Rana, Saeed
+Jaffrey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raza Murad
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+
+The last film Raj Kapoor directed (his elder son
+Randhir directed Henna which was released in
+1991 under Raj Kapoor’s name). The son of the
+evil industrialist Jiwababu (Kharbanda), Naren
+(Rajiv Kapoor, Raj’s youngest son making his
+debut) falls for Ganga (Mandakini), a country
+girl from the mountains, but is forced by his
+family to abandon her when she becomes
+pregnant. Much of the rest of the film is an
+elaboration of the metaphor of the ‘purity’ of
+‘Ganga’ - the Indian name of the holy Ganges
+river, originating in the girl’s native village and
+the setting for the narrative, Gangotri - who has
+been ‘soiled’ by the corrupted political leaders
+of modern India, exemplified mainly by
+Bhagwat Choudhury (Murad), a vile politician
+whose daughter Radha (Rana) is to marry
+Naren. Ganga, now an abandoned single
+mother, falls prey to a brothel madam who tries
+to sell her and a temple priest who tries to rape
+her. In Varanasi she is sold to a ‘kotha’ and,
+eventually, is bought by Choudhury to be his
+mistress. The final reunion of the lead couple
+takes place with the support of Naren’s canny
+Uncle Kunjbehari (Jaffrey). Kapoor’s obsessive
+preoccupation with the soiling of ‘pure’
+womanhood extends his 70s explorations of
+the same theme (cf. Satyam Shivam
+Sundaram, 1978).
+
+[[Film]]