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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Talaq (1938)<br />
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| director = [[Sohrab Modi]]<br />
| producer = Minerva Movietone<br />
| writer = {{ubl|Anand Kumar|Gajanan Jagirdar}}<br />
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| starring = {{ubl|[[Naseem Banu]]|[[Prem Adib]]|[[Gajanan Jagirdar]]|Navin Yagnik}}<br />
| music = {{ubl|Mir Saheb|Anand Kumar (lyrics)}}<br />
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| studio = Minerva Movietone<br />
| released = 1938<br />
| runtime = 127 minutes<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Urdu|Hindi]]<br />
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'''''Talaq''''' (Divorce) is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1938|1938]] [[Urdu]]/[[Hindi]] social melodrama film directed by [[Sohrab Modi]] for Minerva Movietone. The story was written by Anand Kumar and Gajanan Jagirdar with dialogue and lyrics by Anand Kumar. Music was composed by Mir Saheb.<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|author3=Professor of Critical Studies Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA276|accessdate=16 December 2014|date=10 July 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9|pages=276–}}</ref> Following the debacle of his earlier films based on Shakesperian tragedies like [[Khoon Ka Khoon]] (1935) and [[Said-e-Havas]], Modi shifted to making social contemporary dramas like ''Talaq'', ''[[Jailor (1938 film)|Jailor]]'' and ''[[Meetha Zahar]]'' (1938). The film had Naseem Banu in the lead role with Prem Adib, Gajanan Jagirdar, Navin Yagnik, Sheela, and Abu Baker as co-stars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citwf.com/film341894.htm |title=Cast Talaq 1938|publisher=Alan Goble|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref><br />
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Roopa (Naseem Banu), a married woman, fights for better divorce laws, which she then employs to be free of her husband. However, things ultimately go against her when her second husband uses the same laws to divorce her.<br />
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==Plot Outline==<br />
Roopa ([[Naseem Banu]]) is married to a politician Niranjan (Navin Yagnik) whom she wants to divorce. Niranjan is not in favour of divorce. Helped by the editor Chhabilelal ([[Gajanan Jagirdar]]) of a magazine ''Aandhi'', Roopa manages to get certain changes brought in the divorce law that allow her the separation from Niranjan. Niranjan helps a married woman, Shanta (Sheela) and falls in love with her. Due to his sentiments regarding divorce he is unable to marry her. Roopa marries Amarnath (Prem Adib) who then uses the same laws that she had strived to get implemented in order to divorce her.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Naseem Banu]] as Roopa<br />
* Prem Adib as Amarnath<br />
* Gajanan Jagirdar as Chhabilelal<br />
* Navin Yagnik as Niranjan<br />
* Sheela as Shanta<br />
* Abu Baker<br />
* Khwaja Sabir<br />
* Shanta Dutt<br />
* Khan Mastana<br />
* Vimala Vasishth<br />
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==Subject==<br />
The film deals with the social subject of divorce, which being rare in India at that time was also mainly a male prerogative.<ref name="Emery2013">{{cite book|author=Robert E. Emery|title=Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ix9zAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1199|accessdate=16 December 2014|date=21 February 2013|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4522-7443-0|pages=1199–}}</ref> Focusing on the "rights of women to divorce", Modi’s contemporary social films including ''Talaq'' were hugely successful.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaheritage.org/perform/cinema/history/modi.htm|title=Pioneers in Indian Cinema Sohrab Merwanji Modi|publisher=IndiaHeritage.org|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id =0243596 |title =Talaq (1938) }}<br />
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[[Category:Films directed by Sohrab Modi]]<br />
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