Navrang is a Hindi film by Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre from the year 1959.

Plot [link]

Diwakar is a poet and loves his wife Jamuna on everything. But Jamuna does not agree that Diwakar lives out of sheer poetry in a fantasy world and the real world less and less responsible. Diwakar goes so far that he is a fantasy woman in his wife's body creates what he calls Mohini. Diwakar will soon become a recognized poet and Jamuna gives birth to a boy. Unfortunately, the happiness does not last long: Diwakar loses his job because of a critical Hetzsongs against the British. Now he can no longer feed his sickly father nor his son, who is starving. All this makes Jamuna angry, but above all Diwakars growing obsession with Mohini.

As Jamuna decides to live apart from Diwakar, it is destroyed internally and no longer capable of proof. Jamuna slowly realizes that she can not live without Diwakar and forgives him.

Music [link]

Awards [link]

Filmfare Award 1960

• Filmfare Award/Best Editing an Chintaman Borkar
• Filmfare Award/Best Sound an A. K. Parmar

Nominierungen:

• Filmfare Award/Best Director an Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram

External links [link]

• Navrang at the Internet Movie Database
• Review Rediff.com (engl.)