Julie (1975 film)
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| जूली | |
| Directed by | K. S. Sethumadhavan |
| Produced by | B. Nagi Reddi-Chakrapani |
| Written by |
Inder Raj Anand (dialogue) Raj Baldev Raj (dialogue director) |
| Screenplay by | Chakrapani (screen adaptation) |
| Starring |
Lakshmi Vikram |
| Music by | Rajesh Roshan |
| Cinematography | Roy P. L. |
| Edited by | M. S. Money |
| Distributed by | Vijaya Productions Pvt. Ltd. |
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145 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Julie is a 1975 Hindi film that stars Lakshmi in the title role paired opposite Vikram. It also stars Nadira, and Sridevi as a child star. The film became a box office hit.
Julie was also a musical blockbuster hit, with award-winning music by Rajesh Roshan which won him the Filmfare Award for the year. It had one of the first English language songs in an Indian film - "My Heart is Beating", sung by Preeti Sagar.
It is a rare Hindi film in that it features an Anglo-Indian family in the lead. It is a remake of a Malayalam hit film Chattakari (1974), which also starred Laxmi. She would star in yet another remake, the Telugu film Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). She didn't act in the Kannada remake, Julie, released in 2006, which had Ramya in the title role as Julie and Dino Morea as the leading man.
This film depicts the restrictive social conventions regarding inter-caste marriage and unwed motherhood in India. Julie (Laxmi) is a Christian Anglo-Indian girl with a loving, but alcoholic, father (Om Prakash), a dominating mother (Nadira), a younger brother and sister (Sridevi). She falls in love with her best friend's (Rita Bhaduri) brother Shashi Bhattacharya (Vikram Makandar), a Hindu boy. The lovers consummate their relationship, which leaves her pregnant. Shashi goes away to college, not knowing about her pregnancy. Her mother is distraught when Julie tells her about the pregnancy. They don't tell the rest of the family. Her mother thinks about getting Julie an abortion, but a devout Christian (Sulochana) talks her out of it. Julie is sent away to have her baby in secret. The rest of the family is told that Julie got a job. After the baby's birth, Julie's mother arranges for the child to be left in an orphanage, and demands that Julie return home and forget about the baby.
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