''Nirmala'' (Hindi निर्मला, ''immaculate, virtuous'') is a 1938

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

-language social drama film directed by

Franz Osten Franz Osten (23 December 1876 in Munich – 2 December 1956) was a Bavaria, Bavarian filmmaker who along with Himansu Rai was among the first retainers of Bombay Talkies. Osten partnered with Rai on a number of India's earliest blockbuster film ...

and produced by

Bombay Talkies Bombay Talkies was a movie studio founded in 1934. During its period of operation, Bombay Talkies produced 40 movies in Malad, a suburb of the Indian city of Bombay. The studio was established in 1934 by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. After Ra ...

Cast

Devika Rani Devika Rani Choudhuri (30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), usually known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani ha ...

as Nirmala *

Ashok Kumar Kumudlal Ganguly (13 October 1911 – 10 December 2001), better known by his stage name Ashok Kumar and also by Dadamoni, was an Indian actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema and who was a member of the cinematic Ganguly family. He ...

as Ramdas *Maya Devi as Vimla *Kamta Prasad as Professor *

Mumtaz Ali Mumtaz Ali (15 March 1905 – 6 May 1974) was an Indian dancer and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to 1970s. He was the father of Indian actor Mehmood. He also had his own dance troupe "Mumtaz Ali Nites" which performed all ...

* P.F.Pithawala as Rajanikant, Nirmala's Father *M. Nazir as Loknath *Saroj Borkar as Maya Devi, Nirmala's mother *Yusuf Sulehman as Brajnath *P.R.Joshi as Gehni *Haridas *Y.G.Takle as The Inspector *S.Gulab as Loknath's mother *Bhim as Young Loknath *Vipin Mehta *Nzeer Bedi *Pratima as Ramdas's Mother *Meera as Beggar Girl *Gulbadan as Young Nirmala *Balwant Singh *Swarupa *Ehsan as Young Ramdas/Ramu *Tarabai Solanki ;Dance Director *

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