'' Souten Ki Beti '' () is a 1989 Indian

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, produced & directed by Saawan Kumar. Starring

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and Jaya Prada with music composed by Vedpal. This movie was the debut movie of Dipinti, who only worked for one movie.

Plot

Heart Specialist Dr. Shyam Verma is the only child of his widowed father, Shankar. Shyam who is a complete Casanova woos a beautiful Air Hostess, Radha. One fine day Shyam and Radha get intimate under the inducement of alcohol. Radha gets pregnant but Shyam weds his father's friend Jagannath's daughter, Rukmini. Heartbroken Radha quits her job and relocates to Kashmir where she gives birth to Dipinti. Years later Shyam and Radha meet again while Rukmini finds out about their strong affair. Rukmani gets them to reconcile and marry. Years later when Dipinti turns 16 years old, she falls in love with rich lad Amit Mehra. Amit's dad, Advocate Mehra, who refuses to permit his 20-year-old son to marry the daughter of a mistress, and a woman born out of wedlock. Dr. Shyam went then feels insecure about her daughter's marriage. At that time his friend Advocate Narendra came to him to ask dipinti's hand for his son Raja in marriage. At their engagement Dipinti goes senseless and Shyam ensured that she has conceived Amit's child. Then the couple marries at rukmini's advice and advocate Mehra lodged a case against all of them as none of the couple was adult. Before the final decision of court Radha requests Mehra to took his complain back as she and Dipinti is going some elsewhere. Mehra was convinced to took his complain back. When Dipinti and Radha was leaving home Rukmini stopped them and committed suicide. As her last wish Shyam again marries Radha in front of public and Mehra apologized and took dipinti as his daughter-in-law.

Cast

as Dr. Shyam Verma *

as Mrs. Radha Verma * Jaya Prada as Mrs. Rukmini Verma * Dipinti as Dolly Verma *

Sumeet Saigal Sumeet Saigal (born 18 February 1966) is a former Indian Bollywood actor and producer who was active in the Bollywood film industry from 1987 to 1995, appearing in over 30 films. Career Saigal made his debut in the 1987 film ''Insaniyat Ke Dush ...

as Amit Mehra * Vijayendra Ghatge as Advocate Narendra * Talat Hussain as Advocate Mehra

Soundtrack

The songs were written by Saawan Kumar himself and the music was composed by Vedpaal.

References

1980s Hindi-language films 1989 films Films directed by Saawan Kumar Tak {{1980s-Hindi-film-stub