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{{Infobox film
| name = Gumraah
| image = Gumrah (1963).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Poster
| director = [[B. R. Chopra]]
| producer = B. R. Chopra
| writer = B. R. Films(Story Department)
| narrator =
| starring = [[Ashok Kumar]]<br />[[Sunil Dutt]]<br />[[Mala Sinha]]<br />[[Nirupa Roy]]<br />[[Shashikala]]
| music = [[Ravi (music director)|Ravi]]
| cinematography =
| editing = Pran Mehra
| distributor =
| released = 18 January 1963
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Hindi
}}
'''''Gumrah''''' ({{trans|Astray}}) is a 1963 [[Hindi]]-language [[romantic film|romantic]] [[drama film]] produced and directed by [[B. R. Chopra]]. The film stars [[Sunil Dutt]], [[Ashok Kumar]], [[Mala Sinha]], [[Nirupa Roy]], [[Deven Verma]] and [[Shashikala]]. The music was composed by [[Ravi (music director)|Ravi]] and the lyrics were by [[Sahir Ludhianvi]]. The film was a box office success. It was remade in [[Malayalam]] as ''[[Vivahitha]]'' (1970).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Vijayakumar|first1=B.|title=Vivahitha 1970|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/vivahitha-1970/article3536344.ece|access-date=17 May 2018|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=17 June 2012|language=en-IN}}</ref> For her performance, Shashikala won the [[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress]].

== Plot ==
Meena ([[Mala Sinha]]) and Kamla ([[Nirupa Roy]]) are two daughters of a wealthy [[Nainital]] resident. While Kamla lives with her established attorney husband, Ashok ([[Ashok Kumar]]), in [[Mumbai]], Meena is in love with artist-singer Rajendra ([[Sunil Dutt]]). When Kamla comes to Nainital for her delivery, she comes to know of Meena's affair and plans to get her married to Rajendra. Ashok however, is totally unaware of this fact.

Before Kamla can do this, she dies after falling off a cliff near her father's home. Afraid that her sister's children will be ill-treated by a stepmother, Meena is compelled to marry Ashok. Ashok does not know about her love affair with Rajendra. For a while things go well, until she meets Rajendra again. He follows her to Mumbai, and they begin meeting secretly.

One day, Meena is caught by Leela ([[Shashikala]]), a woman who claims to be Rajendra's wife and who begins blackmailing her. Meena's life comes to a crisis, and she is forced to make a choice between Rajendra and Ashok.

Later Meena realizes that Leela is not Rajendra's wife and she attempts to kill her in anger but her husband Ashok stopped her. Ashok tells Meena that Leela is her secretary and he told his secretary to do that. Ashok tells Meena that she can go with Rajendra. Rajendra comes to Ashok's home but Meena tells him that there is no Meena but only Mrs. Ashok and she tells him to forget her. Then she apologizes to Ashok and Ashok forgives her. The film ends with the message "And they lived happily thereafter".

The movie examines the conflict of a married woman who is caught between her feelings for her lover and her duty to her husband and family. A bold theme for the times (1963), the same conflict is examined again in several south Indian films like [[Abhinandana]] (1988) and also the 2005 [[Akshay Kumar]]-starrer ''[[Bewafaa (2005 film)|Bewafaa]]''.

== Cast ==
* [[Ashok Kumar]] as Ashok
* [[Sunil Dutt]] as Rajendra<ref name="BFTP" />
* [[Mala Sinha]] as Meena<ref name="BFTP" />
* [[Nirupa Roy]] as Kamla
* [[Shashikala]] as Leela<ref name="BFTP" />
* [[Deven Verma]] as Pyarelal<ref name="BFTP" />
* [[Nana Palsikar]] as Meena's Father<ref name="BFTP" />

== Soundtrack ==
{{Tracklist
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_music = [[Ravi (music director)|Ravi]]
| all_lyrics = Sahir Ludhianvi
| title1 = Aa Bhi Ja
| extra1 = Mahendra Kapoor
| title2 = Aa Ja Aa Ja Re
| extra2 = [[Mahendra Kapoor]], [[Asha Bhosle]]
| title3 = Aap Aaye To
| extra3 = Mahendra Kapoor
| title4 = Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se
| extra4 = Mahendra Kapoor
| title5 = Ek Pardesi Door Se Aaya
| extra5 = Asha Bhosle
| title6 = Ek Thi Ladki Meri Saheli
| extra6 = Asha Bhosle
| title7 = Tujhko Mera Pyar Pukare
| extra7 = Mahendra Kapoor, Asha Bhosle
}}

== Awards ==
{{awards table}}
|-
| rowspan="4"|1963
| [[B. R. Chopra]]
| [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi|Certificate of Merit for Third Best Hindi Feature Film]]<ref name="11thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm11thNFAAward.aspx|title=11th National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|access-date=13 September 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170502124428/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm11thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=2 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Shashikala]]
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress]]<ref name="BFTP" />
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Mahendra Kapoor]]
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer]]<ref name="BFTP" />
| {{won}}
|-
| Pran Mehra
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Editing]]
| {{won}}
|}

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="BFTP">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/gumrah-1963/article2574984.ece |title=Gumrah (1963) |last=Lokapally |first=Vijay |date=28 October 2011 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=17 May 2018}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0057120|Gumraah}}
{{B. R. Chopra}}
{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Hindi}}

[[Category:1963 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1960s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by B. R. Chopra]]
[[Category:Films scored by Ravi]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]

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