1959 · drama · romance · hindi
Sujata
Directed by Bimal Roy2h 41m1959
An orphan adopted by an upper caste family never learns of her untouchable caste background. This proves problematic when years later, she falls in love with an upper caste man.
Our read: Sujata (1959) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · hindi entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- sombre
- measured
- tender
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