Ek Shola (1956)
Bombay-based tenant, Nirmal Kumar, dramatically meets with his dancer/singer neighbor, Mala Sinha, and both fall in love. They decide to get married and move in together along with their respective servants, Pedro and Mary. Nirmal is confident that his parents, Rai Bahadur Ishwardas and mother, as well as younger brother, Anand, and school-going sister, Usha, will welcome Mala with open arms. When he gets a telegram to come home, he accordingly takes Mala with him and they travel via train. Once there, he and Mala will both get a shock when his parents, who have fixed his marriage with Shobha, the daughter of wealthy Diwan Chamanlal, will not only disapprove of Mala but also humiliate her. When Nirmal attempts to defend her, his enraged father asks them to move out, compelling his mother to object, fall down and pass away. Blaming Mala’s entry in their house as an ill-omen, Ishwardas reiterates that they leave immediately.
