Sharada is a 1957 Indian Bollywood film directed by L.V. Prasad. The film stars Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari in lead roles, and Shyama, Raj Mehra and Anita Guha in supporting roles. It had a very controversial storyline , where Raj Kapoor is in love with Meena Kumari, vanishes in an accident and she marries a much older man. Raj Kapoor survives and finds that she is married to his father . “Sharda” was a pretty daring film story for its time, and it speaks volumes about the audiences maturity, as well as L.V. Prasads bravado that he presented the beloved heroine as the heros stepmother in his first directorial foray in Bollywood! While film studies scholarship has largely concerned itself with nationalist narratives of cinema cultures it has only rarely traced older performance cultures within it. The lesser recorded spectatorship practice in relation to actresses like Meena Kumari or Nargis is the slowly established democratization of feudal classical performance cultures. The modern cinema was a place where any person who could buy a ticket was able to watch performances of women artists who traced a lineage to high-class tawaifs— a privilege previously reserved for aristocrats. Through these performances, films afforded the newly minted ‘ordinary citizen’ a glimpse of the life that their antecedents would possibly only have had access to as gossip. Mother India was also 1957. So was Naya Daur, Tumsa Nahin Dekha , Do Aankhen Barah Haath , Pyaasa , Paying Guest ,Ab Dilli Door Nahin , Thanks Maanik for this amazing gem.
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