![]() Nirmal’s luck is pretty good, because she’s not gone very far when she runs into an old friend, Leela (?). She vows that she’ll go get herself a job, so that she can look after her mother and maami won’t get a chance to pass any more snide remarks. When she comes home, her maami gets on Nirmal’s case again, and Nirmal-a hot-tempered girl, as it is-lets fly and tells her aunt off. Nirmal has won a gold medal for a beautiful poem she recites at the college mushaira. They eventually do (sort of) express their love for each other, and that too just as the term is ending. Rajinder and Nirmal’s romance consists largely of accidentally banging into each other. Plus, she’s fallen in love with a classmate named Rajinder (Pradeep Kumar, who really looks far too old to be in college). …whereas in reality, it’s Nirmal who does all the cleaning and cooking that allows the household to manage without a servant.Īnd, in college, she’s a fine student. Maamaji seems blissfully unaware that anything’s wrong his wife has given him to understand that she’s the one doing all the housework… Nirmal’s maami (Chand Burque) is a vicious and very shrill woman who’s constantly yelling at the other two women, telling them how it’s the generosity of her and her husband that allows them to stay on here, living off the earnings of the maamaji. The two of them live with Nirmal’s mother’s brother and his shrewish wife. Nirmal is in her final year of college, doing her BA and staying with her widowed, weak-hearted mother. In, fact, almost tedious.Īdalat is the story of Nirmala ‘Nirmal’ (Nargis, credited as the award-winning actress at Karlovy Vary). Watching Adalat now, after having first seen this when I was a pre-teen, I can see that what I thought of as a tragic but entertaining film is really not that great. Looking back, I now realise just how tolerant I was back then of cinema that now induces irritation at best, ‘kill-this-film maker’ fury at worst. Everything that was shown-from the simply horrendous Fauji to Fedora, which I didn’t understand-was grist to the family mill. We saw loads of films during those years. And the films Doordarshan telecast at 5.45 PM every Sunday (and a couple of times during the week, mostly at odd times) were the highlights of the week. For the next few years, Doordarshan remained our main source of entertainment. ![]()
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