Dr. Vidya

Dr. Vidya (Hindi: डॉक्टर विद्या) is a 1962 Hindi Black-and-white Romantic family film written by Mohan Segal and directed by Rajendra Bhatia. The film starred Vyjayanthimala in title role and Manoj Kumar in the lead with Leela Chitnis, Nazir Hussain, Helen, Sunder, Madan Puri, Prem Chopra and Mumtaz Begum forms an ensemble cast. The film was produced by Mohan Segal with his own banner, Deluxe Films. The film's score was composed by S. D. Burman with lyrics provided by Majrooh Sultanpuri and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. While the editing was done by Pratap Dave. This story was adopted from the Marathi film 'Shikleli Bayko' (1959)(Meaning " Educated Wife").

Plot

The movie was shot in an era when educated people in cities were getting influenced by the western culture hence the people from rural areas who placed a lot of importance to values and culture, strongly abstained from marrying into city people's homes. Geeta is a girl from a well to do family and is well educated, her parents had brought up her with traditional values and respect for those values. After her graduation, her parents decide to marry her off with Ratan Chowdhury, the son of a zaminder, who had the mind frame that a highly educated wife would be incapable of handling and managing a home, specially in a joint family. Later he marries Geeta but his mentality and the talk of others stop him from accepting her. He disowns her and poor Geeta has to go back to her parents' house.

Even after lot of insistence from her parents and friends she refuses to remarry. Instead she continues her studies to become a doctor. After garnering a degree in medical science she goes back to Ratan's village as Vidya. She wants to clear the wrong perceptions that Ratan has about her. Ratan couldn't recognise her, as he had not even seen her face, even during marriage. He falls in love with Vidya and intends to marry her, but one day during the annual cart race, Ratan meets with an accident and suffers a very bad injury post which needs surgery. Due to unavailability of any other doctor, Geeta has to do the job. She performs it successfully. Will Ratan accept Geeta in her new avataar?

Cast

• Vyjayanthimala as Geetha / Dr. Vidya
• Manoj Kumar as Ratan Chowdhury
• Leela Chitnis
• Nazir Hussain
• Helen
• Sunder
• Madan Puri
• Prem Chopra
• Mumtaz Begum

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was composed by S. D. Burman with lyrics provided by Majrooh Sultanpuri and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.^[1]

Box office

At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed around ₹80,00,000 with nett gross of ₹40,00,000, thus becomes the eighteenth highest grossing film of 1962 with verdict average success at box office.^[2] While Ibosnetwork.com had reported that the film had grossed around ₹50,00,000 and declared the film as the fifteenth highest grossing film.^[3][4]

References

External links

• Dr. Vidya at the Internet Movie Database
• Dr. Vidya profile at Upperstall.com
• Dr. Vidya profile at Gomolo.com