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22 Dec, 1997

Cinemaazi remembers Raman B Desai on his death anniversary

22 Dec, 1997

Cinemaazi remembers Raman B Desai on his death anniversary

22 Dec, 1975

Cinemaazi remembers Vasant Desai on his death anniversary

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Biraj Bahu (1954)

Bimal Roy

Release Date1954
GenreDrama
FormatB-W
LanguageHindi
Run Time145 mins
Length43700 meters
Number of Reels14
Gauge35 mm
Censor RatingU
Censor Certificate NumberU-11368/54-MUM
Certificate Date17/08/1954
Shooting LocationThe Mohan Studios, Andheri

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English | हिंदी

Beauty is a gift of God; yet it burns and destroys. Many a war has been waged for beautiful woman; often beauty is a curse.

Biraj posssessed such outstanding beauty. She has inflinching devotion for her husband and was extremely proud of her husband's love for her.

Nilambar the tall handsome husband of Biraj had God's gift in his voice. He was framed for his devotional songs and respected for his selfless service to his community, be it to respected for his slefless service to his community, be it to nurse the sick or cremate the dead and was not worldly at all.

Pitambar, his younger brother was quite the opposite, both in physical appearance and in worldly matters. A greedy miser and a grabber he wouldn't trust his own wife. When it came to share the heavy dowry and expenses for the marraige of their only sister Punnu, he seoerated from his brother and paritioned their ancestral property. Nilambar ,ortgaged his share of the property and his tender loving wife gave her jewels and the marriage happily passed off.

Even gradual financial hardships that followed, could not tranish their days-such was the completeness of love and faith that they had for each other. Without her husband's faith that they had for each other. Without her husband's knowledge, Biraj smilingly started making dolls and maintained her household from the sale proceeds, but no conflict came in their life till there appaered in the village a new comer, a lusty young debauch in the person of the new Zamindar. Dazed by Biraj's beauty he soon made it his sole occupations to engineer means to posses her and Sundari, Biraj's maid servant of easy virtues proved very uselful to him.

The utter shame that her beuaty, whichwon tributes for her from her husband, should arouse the vulgar carnal desire in a man and their utter helplessness against all powerful zamindar on account of the adverse situation they were placed in, aroused a silent mad anger in her and what the years of privation and ppoverty could not achieve, the anger achieved. Bitterness graduallycrept into he rlife. She started getting conscious of her husband's material failings about which before she wouldn't even spare a thought and the woman who one day asked, as the greatest boon from her husband, that she may die at his feet, opened her eyes one day in a stormy nightto find herself in the houseboat of the zamindar drifting away fast from their village. Did she run away with the zamindar? Was it accidental? Did fate bring her back to the feet of her husband, the greatest boon she asked for in her life....

(From the official press booklet)

बिराज बहू

सौंदर्य ईश्वर की देन है, फिर भी उसकी लपट मे आकर कोई बच नही सकता. कितनी ही लड़ाईयां किसी सुन्दरी के पीछे आधारित हैं. सौंदर्य बहुतवार अभिशाप सिदध हुआ है.

बिराज भी एक ऐसी ही सुंदरी थी. वह अनन्य पतिव्रता थी और उसे पति के प्रेम पर गर्व था.

उसका पति, निलाम्बरस्वर सम्राट था. चारो ओर वह अपने भक्ति रस के गानों के लिए और निस्वार्थ सेवा के लिए मशहुर था. लेकिन उसका छोटा भाई पिताम्बर ठीक उसके विपरीत था- चालाक, कंजूस और बेईमान. वह अपने स्त्री का भी विश्वास नहीं करता था. अपनी छोटी बहन पुन्नू की शादी का बोझ ना उठाना पड़े, इसिलिए वो अपनी पैत्रिक सम्पति का बंटवारा कर अलग हो गया. किन्तु नीलाम्बार ने अपना हिस्सा गिरवी रखकर पुन्नू का विवाह

किया.
कितने हा दुख संकट आए पर पति-पत्नि के रिश्ते में शिथिलता नहीं आई. आर्थिक संकट से निवारण के लिए विराज ने चुपके से खिलौना बनाकर बाज़ार में भेजने लगी.

दुख कभी भी अकेला तो आता नही है. उस गांव में गांव का विलासी ज़मींदार आकर रहने लगा. बिराज की सुन्दरता ने उसमें पाप वासना को जाग्रत किया. बिराज की नौकरानी, सुन्दरी लोभवश ने उसका साथ दिया.

किसी भी विषम परिस्थति में विचलित ना होने वाली बिराज में, जमींदार की कुत्सित भावनाओं ने क्रोधग्नि भड़काया. उसके जीवन में धीरे धीरे अशांति बढ़ती गई. पति के आर्थिक संकटों से भी वो क्षुब्ध होने लगी. वहीं विराज जिसने पति के चरणों में प्राण त्यागने का प्रण किया था. एक अंधेरी रात में जब मुसलाधार बारिश हो रही थी, ज़मींदार की नाव में आ बैठी और कुछ ही देर में गांव से बोझिल हो गई.

क्या बिराज ज़मींदार के साथ भाग गई. क्या यह एक आकस्मिक घटना थी. क्या भाग्य ने फिर उसे पति के चरणों में ला दिया और उसके जीवन की महत्वकांक्षा पुर्ण हुई