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{{Infobox film
| name = Najma
| image = Najma poster.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Mehboob Khan]]
| producer = Mehboob Khan
| writer = [[Aghajani Kashmeri]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Ashok Kumar]]<br>[[Veena (actress)|Veena]]
| music = [[Rafiq Ghaznavi]]<br>Anjum Pilibhiti (lyrics)
| cinematography = [[Faredoon Irani]]
| editing =
| studio = [[Mehboob Productions]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1943|7|30}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = [[Hindi]]/[[Urdu]]
| budget =
| gross =
}}
[[File:Najma (1943).webm|thumb|''Najma'']]
'''''Najma''''' ([[Hindi]]: नज़मा) is a [[Bollywood films of 1943|1943]] Indian film directed by [[Mehboob Khan]] and starring [[Ashok Kumar]] and [[Veena (actress)|Veena]]. The film's music is by [[Rafiq Ghaznavi]] with lyrics by Anjum Pilibhiti. ''Najma'' was the first film under Mehboob Khan's Mehboob Productions banner.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema |last=Gulzar |author2=Saibal Chatterjee |author3=Govind Nihalani|year= 2003 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn= 81-7991-066-0 |page= 58 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT82&dq=najma+mehboob+khan }}</ref> Khan paid Kumar Rs. 1 [[lakh]] for his role in the film, a record at the time. Due to its financial success upon release, the film became a blueprint for [[Muslim social]]s that followed.<ref name="women">{{cite book |title= Women, Islam and cinema|last= Dönmez-Colin |first= Gönül |year= 2004 |publisher= Reaktion Books |location= London|isbn= 1-86189-220-9 |page= 93 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pWhZ0hgH80cC&printsec=frontcover |access-date=17 March 2010}}</ref>

==Plot==
[[Lucknow]] medical student Yusuf has fallen in love with Najma, the daughter of his wealthy neighbor, after seeing her only once. Encouraged by his friend Bedil, he decides to pursue her. Najma thinks he is too forward and tries to punish him by putting salt in his food at her family's [[Eid ul-Fitr|Eid]] celebration, but accidentally serves it to his father Dr. Khan instead. Najma then falls in love with Yusuf, meeting him secretly in the garden. Their romance is interrupted when Dr. Khan announces that he has betrothed his son to his cousin Raziya. Although Yusuf initially refuses to marry Raziya because she is an uneducated village girl and he loves Najma, Najma convinces him to marry Raziya to preserve his family's honor. Heartbroken, they both marry other people; Yusuf marries Raziya and Najma weds the wealthy Mukarram Nawab. Raziya finds out about Yusuf's hidden love and becomes very jealous. Meanwhile, Yusuf sinks into depression and Najma becomes ill with worry over him. Mukarram overhears Raziya jealously berating Najma over her love for Yusuf and resolves to kill him. But Mukarram has a serious accident and Yusuf is the only one who can save his life. Yusuf saves Mukarra's life and assures him and Raziya that he does not wish to take Najma away. Giving up each other forever, Yusuf and Najma part.

==Cast==
*[[Ashok Kumar]] as Yusuf Khan
*[[Sitara Devi|Sitara]] as Raziya
*[[Veena (actress)|Veena]] as Najma
*Kumar as Mukarram
*[[Yakub (actor)|Yakub]] as Bedil
*Majid as Nawab Rafatjah
*Shantari as Tilat
*Rajkumari Shukla as Mukarram's Mother
*[[Murad (actor)|Murad]] as Dr. Khan, Yusuf's father
*Laddan as Mir Banney
*Wasker as Nawab Nabbanc
*Bibibai as Najma's Mother
*Maheshar as Ahmed Hussain

==Themes==
''Najma'' emphasises the importance of education and the necessity for modern development within the Muslim community, but also portrays the value of family honor and upholding traditions like arranged marriage. The film's upper class Lahknawi protagonists live in an economically privileged world and follow the traditional ''tehzeeb'' etiquette of Lucknow. The film mainly deals with family relationships and the effects of ''tehzeeb'' on them.<ref>{{cite book|title=Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema|last=Allen|first=Richard|author2=Ira Bhaskar|year=2009|publisher=[[Tulika Books]]|isbn=978-81-89487-53-9}}</ref> Many of these elements became the prototype for later Muslim social films which usually focused on male-female relationships in upper-class Muslim communities.<ref name="women"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0232155|Najma}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtq2_ls-Nr4 Full movie on Youtube]
* [https://indiancine.ma/DVP/info Najma (1943)] on indiancine.ma

{{Mehboob Khan}}

[[Category:1943 films]]
[[Category:1940s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Urdu-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Mehboob Khan]]
[[Category:Indian drama films]]
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1943 drama films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language drama films]]

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