Bandini is a 1963 Hindi film directed and produced by Bimal Roy, the man who directed classics like Do Bigha Zameen and Devdas. Bandini stars Nutan giving one of her career's finest performances, along with Ashok Kumar and Dharmendra as leads, and explores the human conflicts of love and hate intertwined in the mind of Kalyani. The movie tells the story of a woman prisoner serving life imprisonment for murder, Kalyani, the all suffering, selfless, sacrificing, and strong yet weak Indian woman. She must make a choice between two very different men, Devendra, the loving prison doctor, and Bikash, a man from her past. The film is based on a Bengali novel Tamasi by Jarasandha, a former jail superintendent who spent much of his career as a jailor in Northern Bengal. He numerous wrote fictional versions of his experiences in, Louha-Kapat, Tamasha, Nyaydanda, effective creating a new genre in Bengali literature of prison stories. Bandini was the tenth highest grosser of the year and was declared a 'Semi Hit' at the Indian Box Office, though it received not just critical acclaim but also sweeped that year's Filmfare Awards, winning six awards in all including the top awards of Best Film and Best Director, as well as Best Actress, and is still considered a landmark movie of the 1960s, especially being last major directorial venture of Bimal Roy, a master of realism. Wikipedia [ - ]

Bandini is a 1963 Hindi film directed and produced by Bimal Roy, the man who directed classics... [ + ]