Payal 1957

   Payal was the remake of successful tamil film Mallika (1957)-starring Padmini and Gemini Ganeshan. Both the versions were directed by Joseph Taliyath. Payal has an impressive music by Hemant Kumar. The song Ae meri maut Tehar hosh mein aa loo to chalu was considered classic. There were fantastic dance numbers by Padmini.

  It stars Padmini, Sunil Dutt, Baby Naaz, David, Ragini, Agha, Achla Sachdev, Meenu Mumtaz etc.

Song booklet of Payal 1957.

 Story:

  Payal is the heart rendering story of two sisters Kamla (Padmini) and Padma (Baby Naaz). They loss their parents in an air accident and is deprived of her eye sight. Kamla, alive to her new responsibility brings Padma to the city for treatment.

 On their way to the eye clinic, Kamla is robbed of all their money. She managed to get hold of by disposing of her house in the village. Ultimately Kamla is obliged to take a job as a stage dancer.

  One day, while returning home from the Nritya Sabha she runs across a young man lying in an unconscious state in a lane. She takes pity on the poor little thing and brings him home. The young man’s name is Mohan (Sunil Dutt). He is the son of the rich Zamindar of Girirrapur(Bipin Gupta). Mohan is running a hotel in the city much against the wishes of his father.

  Oblivious of the machinations of his manager Shankar (David) who was actually the architect of all his misfortunes, Mohan finds solace in the innocent love of Kamla. But he is soon disillusioned when he comes to know that Kamla is a stage dancer. Padma had told him only that Kamla is a teacher in a night school. In a fit of anger, he dubs Kamla as a cheap prostitute but the truth dawns upon him that Kamla has been doing all this in order to help Padma restore her eye sight. The lovers are reconciled.

The Zamindar rushes to Kamla to rescue his son from her snares. He succeeds in extorting a promise from her that she will give up all claims on Mohan.

The Zamindar is murdered by Shankar. But Mohan is charged of patricide but Kamla confesses that she is the real murder to rescue Mohan. By then Padma had regained eye sight after operation. She was witness for all the happenings.

   In the court Padma told whatever happened. She tells that Shankar was the criminal and he killed the landlord.  In a fight in the court, Shankar got killed with his own gun. Mohan’s mother (Achla Sachdev) and sister (Ragini) was happy to know that Kamla was sacrificing her life to save Mohan.

 Again mohan and Kamala reunites…