Premature (2019): An intimate 'welcome to womanhood' tale
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The film is a social drama, with its plot around university professor Dr. Kumar (Ashok Kumar), who lives with his wife Padma (Bhanumati), his drunkard son Jyoti (Raaj Kumar), outgoing daughter Chitra (Tanuja) and his friend's daughter Rekha (Mala Sinha). Dr. Kumar and his wife have a different outlook towards life, with him preferring books and philosophy, while his wife Padma prefers social gatherings and society clubs. Padma never considered Jyoti her son, who works as a mill designer, a profession she considers too poor to acknowledge. Chitra is encouraged by her mother to mingle freely in high society, much to the disappointment of her worried father.
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The film is a social drama, with its plot around university professor Dr. Kumar (Ashok Kumar), who lives with his wife Padma (Bhanumati), his drunkard son Jyoti (Raaj Kumar), outgoing daughter Chitra (Tanuja) and his friend's daughter Rekha (Mala Sinha). Dr. Kumar and his wife have a different outlook towards life, with him preferring books and philosophy, while his wife Padma prefers social gatherings and society clubs. Padma never considered Jyoti her son, who works as a mill designer, a profession she considers too poor to acknowledge. Chitra is encouraged by her mother to mingle freely in high society, much to the disappointment of her worried father.
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C. V. Sridhar
Director
Ashok Kumar
Professor Kumar (as Padmashree Ashok Kumar)
Mala Sinha
Rekha
Biswajeet Chatterjee
Prakash
Raaj Kumar
Jyoti Kumar
Bhanumathi
Padma, Professor Kumar's wife
Tanuja Samarth
Chitra Kumar, Professor Kumar's daughter
Sulochana Latkar
Prakash's mother and Professor Kumar's first wife
Asit Sen
Moti, Jyoti's friend at mill
Anwar Hussain
Ramzan, Jyoti's rickshaw-puller friend
Shachin Sailesh Kumar
Ramesh Nath
Chaman Puri
Principal
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