Ujala
- IMDb link: 0157132
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (94 votes)
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance
- Director: Shammi Kapoor, Naresh Saigal
- Cast: Mala Sinha, Raaj Kumar, Leela Chitnis and others
- Release year: 1959
- Runtime: 109 minutes
- Country: India
- Keywords: theft, knife, cremation, false accusation, factory, coolie, train station, mother son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, escape
Plot:
Bombay-based Ramu lives an impoverished lifestyle in a Chawl in Parel along with his widowed mother; sister Sandhya; & three much younger siblings, and makes a living using a wooden pushcart. One day his sister, Munni, is run over by a car, gets hospitalized and passes away. Unable to obtain wood for her cremation, he uses his pushcart, and then joins hands with a Chembur-based gangster, Kalu, and picks pockets. He is able to get some money to feed the family as well as pay for Sandhya's engagement. He then gets into an altercation with one of his associates, Chandu, and the latter gets killed. Guilt-ridden he decides to give up on crime and gets a job sharpening knives. It is is here he will be plagued by the arrival of the police who are investigating Chandu's death - as well as become a suspect when a silver knife goes missing.