# Achhut Kannya, 1936

Hindi Movie Achhut Kannya (1936) directed by Franz Osten, Music by Saraswati Devi, Starring - Devika Rani, Ashok Kumar, P. F. Pithawala, Kamta Prasad, Kishori Lal, Kusum Kumari, Pramila and others.

Synopsis: The circular story is told in flashback, in which eternal repetition is interrupted only by death in the form of a relentlessly linear railway engine. The film opens at a railway crossing where a man is about to kill his wife when the narrative spins into the past via a song. The central story is of the unhappy love affair between Kasturi (Devika Rani), the Harijan (Untouchable) daughter of the railway level-crossing guard Dukhia (Prasad), and Pratap (Kumar), the Brahmin son of the grocer Mohan (Pithawala). At first, rumour and mob violence are deployed to lethal effect in order to maintain a 'traditional', oppressive morality. Later, when the main protagonists are about to conform and marry selected partners, rumour and maliciousness again intervene to trigger renewed violence until the on-rushing train of fate stops the strife.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1936
- Runtime: 2 h 15 min
- By: Franz Osten
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achhut_Kannya,_1936.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Franz Osten
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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