![]() ![]() Salma insists that they move out, Hamid starts looking for alternative accommodation, he does find one, even pays part of the deposit, promising to pay the rest within one week and is told that if he fails to keep his promise the this amount will be forfeited. While there, Hamid comes to know that his father-in-law is near destitute and the couple return back to Bombay. To calm his wife, both of them go to visit her father. While Hamid spends all day at work, Salma is all by herself, and one day gets lured by Shamshad herself and has a nervous breakdown. When Hamid and Salma both refuse, Akhtar and others create a ruckus and even inform the Police that Salma is soliciting males as a prostitute. The locals, especially Akhtar the Paanwala, wants Salma to start entertaining males as this will increase his business. The couple's lives are disrupted when strange men knock on their door late at night insisting on seeing Shamshad. Hamid then rents a small apartment in 'Yahya Manzil' little knowing that it's former occupant was Shamshad Begum, a prostitute. Salma comes from a small village where her widowed dad, Rajdhar Khan, lives with his daughter, Zohra. Hamid Ahmed lives a poor lifestyle in a Bombay slum area along with his wife, Salma, and works as a clerk with the Bombay Municipal Corporation. This film also explores the ethos of prostitution in its reality and as a metaphor for the outside world. ![]() The story here bears resemblance to the later 'Ek Chadar Maili Si' by the same director and seems to explore the complex world of women and sexuality as viewed by Indian men: mother, goddess, whore. Hamid gets more and more angry and seemingly unable to reconcile his morality with the immorality of the world and at one point beats his wife and then rapes her making her into a 'whore' of his fantasy. The couple struggle to live within the bounds of their own moral code while the earnings of prostitution seem to be flaunted around them. Men still come to the door in the hope of seeing Shamshad and do not seem too put out by seeing Salma despite her protestations. The flat had been the former home of a well known mujra and qawali singer, Shamshad. They move into a rental flat next door to the local red light district. Tells the story of newly weds Hamid and Salma. ![]()
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