Badal

IMDb link: 0130489
IMDb rating: 6.8 (56 votes)
Genres: Action, Romance
Director: Amiya Chakrabarty
Cast: Madhubala, Prem Nath, Purnima, Hiralal, Purnima and others

Release year: 1951
Runtime: 146 minutes
Country: India
Keywords: love triangle, disguise, attempted rape, sword, abduction, horse, oppression, robin hood plot, secret identity, swashbuckler

Plot:

An Indianized version of the Sherwood Forest legend. King is away, the jaagirdar is a wimp and his henchman loots the poor. Our hero steals from the tyrant and helps the poor and repressed. On a romantic sideline, he courts the jagirdar's beautiful daughter, who is also being wooed by the evil henchman.

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