Tadbir

Jayant Desai directs this melodrama centering on Kanhaiyalal K L Saigal who according to a fortuneteller at his birth will consort with a prostitute grow skillful with a knife and be sentenced to the gallows As the film progresses this unpromising prediction comes true but in an unexpected manner After a family tragedy Kanhaiyalal and his mother find shelter in the home of a kindly whore named Saguna Suraiya who eventually sacrifices her life for that of the protagonist Later he becomes handy with a knife when he goes to med school and becomes a surgeon As Kanhaiyalal matures he and his mother battle against crime and poverty