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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Aurat<br/>Woman<br />
| image = Aurat 1940.jpg<br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| director = [[Mehboob Khan]]<br />
| producer =<br />
| writer = Babubhai Mehta<br/>[[Wajahat Mirza]]<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = [[Sardar Akhtar]]<br />
| music = [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Faredoon Irani]]<br />
| editing = Shamsudin Kadri<br />
| distributor = [[National Pictures]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1940}}<br />
| runtime = 154 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]<ref name="akhtar">{{cite book|last1=Aḵẖtar|first1=Jāvīd|authorlink1=Javed Akhtar|last2=Kabir|first2=Nasreen Munni|title=Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar|date=2002|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=9780195664621|page=49|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JILAQAAMAAJ|language=en|quote=most of the writers working in this so-called Hindi cinema write in Urdu: [[Gulzar]], or [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]] or [[Inder Raj Anand]] or [[Rahi Masoom Raza]] or [[Wajahat Mirza|Vahajat Mirza]], who wrote dialogue for films like ''[[Mughal-e-Azam]]'' and ''[[Gunga Jumna]]'' and ''[[Mother India]]''. So most dialogue-writers and most song-writers are from the Urdu discipline, even today.}}</ref><br />
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[[File:Aurat, 1940.webm|thumb|thumbtime=2:20|''Aurat'']]<br />
'''''Aurat''''', also known by its English title '''''Woman''''', is a [[Bollywood films of 1940|1940]] [[Indian film]] directed by [[Mehboob Khan]] and starring [[Sardar Akhtar]], [[Surendra (actor)|Surendra]], [[Yakub (actor)|Yakub]], [[Kanhaiyalal (actor)|Kanhaiyalal]] and [[Arun Kumar Ahuja]]. The film's music is by [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]] and dialogue is by [[Wajahat Mirza]]. Mehboob Khan later remade this film as ''[[Mother India]]'' (1957),<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC | page = 55 | title = Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema | first1=Govind Nihalani|last1=Gulzar|first2=Saibal|last2=Chatterjee | publisher = Popular Prakashan | date = 2003 | isbn = 81-7991-066-0 | accessdate = January 21, 2011}}</ref> which is considered one of the biggest hits of all time in [[Indian Cinema]] (and again repeated Wajahat Mirza for dialogues, Kanhiyalal as Sukhi Lala and Faredoon Irani for cinematography).<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Radha ([[Sardar Akhtar]]) is an indomitable woman, toiling away to feed her three sons and to pay off Sukhilala ([[Kanhaiyalal (actor)|Kanhaiyalal]]), the village's rapacious moneylender. When she learns that she is pregnant again, her husband, Shamu ([[Arun Kumar Ahuja]]), runs far away, leaving her to fend for herself against poverty and the lecherous advances of Sukhilala. Later, the two eldest children die, leaving her with only two sons: the strait-laced Ramu ([[Surendra (actor)|Surendra]]) and the wild Birju ([[Yakub (actor)|Yakub]]). The latter of the two becomes a bandit, who kills Sukhilala and kidnaps his childhood sweetheart. As a result, Radha and Ramu are cast out of the village. Eventually, Radha kills Birju for dishonoring her.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
[[File:Aurat 1940S.jpg|thumbnail|right|A scene from the film]]<br />
* [[Surendra (actor)|Surendra]] as Ramu<br />
* [[Sardar Akhtar]] as Radha<br />
* [[Yakub (actor)|Yakub]] as Briju<br />
* [[Arun Kumar Ahuja|Aroon]] as Shamu<br />
* Harish as Bansi<br />
* Jyoti as Jamna<br />
* [[Kanhaiyalal (actor)|Kanhaiyalal]] as Sukhi<br />
* Vatsala Kumtekar as Kamla<br />
* Sunalini as Sunder Chachi<br />
* Brijrani as Tulsi<br />
* Akbar Gulam Ali as Laloo<br />
* Kanu Pande as Chandoo<br />
* Wasker as Fulchand<br />
* Amirbanu as Kashibai<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0032226|Aurat}}<br />
* {{Amg movie|139127|Aurat}}<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmdDYUxvM_0 Full movie on YouTube]<br />
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