On the third day of film fest Ekagra Hindi movie ‘Kamla Ki Maut’ was screened at Abhirang Auditorium, Bharat Bhavan.
The screening evoked a good response as an average crowd visited to watch the movie. Kamla Ki Maut is a 1989 Hindi drama film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film set in Mumbai, deals with issue of love, pre-marital sex and relationships in modern India. It stars Pankaj Kapoor, Supriya Pathak and Roopa Ganguly in lead roles.
Sudhakar Patel meets with young Anju and both fall in love with each other. Hoping to get married soon, both get intimate, resulting in a pregnancy. Both do not have the means to look after a child and decide to abort it.
After the abortion Sudhakar disappears from Anju’s life. Sudhakar relocates to another town, falls in love with Chameli, and promises to marry her when confronted by her irate father and townspeople, but subsequently disappears from her life also. Sudhakar then has an affair with laxmi, who is the wife of his friend, Prakash. Shortly thereafter Sudhakar marries Nirmala.
Their next door neighbour is Kamla Thakur who is to get married to Bhaskar soon, but kills herself by throwing herself from the 5th floor of her apartment building. This suicide shakes up the entire Patel family and each one must deal with their individual demons - a struggle that may change their lives forever. Notably, in 2013, to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema, National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) in partnership with Shemaroo, released a digitally re-mastered print of the film under “Cinemas of India” label.