The Rebel

Directed by N.R. Acharya

With Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar, Hansa Wadkar, Rama Shukul and Mumtaz Ali

An allegory of contemporary political attitudes presented in terms of differing approaches to the institutionalisation of sexuality: marriage. There are three college friends: the liberal Vijay the conservative Loknath and Jagdish, a careerist. Vijay rescues a damsel in distress and marries her. Later, his son Anand repeats his father's history by rescuing Jagdish's daughter from a bandit and marrying her, resolving the differences between the three friends.