Doosri Dulhan

{{Infobox film

|name = Doosri Dulhan

|image = Doosri Dulhan.jpg

|caption = Poster

|director = Lekh Tandon

|producer = Dharampal Gupta
Arun Kumar Gupta

|writer = Anil Barve

|starring = Victor Banerjee
Sharmila Tagore
Shabana Azmi

|distributor =

|released = {{Film date|1983|10|14|df=yes}}

|runtime = 2 hours 33 min

|country = India

|language = Hindi

|budget =

}}

Doosri Dulhan ({{Translation|Second bride}}) is a 1983 Bollywood film directed by Lekh Tandon. It stars Victor Banerjee, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Bappi Lahiri.

Plot

The film tells the story of a childless couple Anil & Renu (Victor Banerjee & Sharmila Tagore respectively) and a prostitute Chanda (Shabana Azmi), who is hired as a surrogate mother.

The couple were childless after Renu's miscarriage and so hired a woman to be their child's surrogate mother.

Adaptations

The movie was released in Bengali under the name Uttarayan in 2006.Gomolo.in http://www.gomolo.com/uttarayan-movie/15408 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924123330/http://www.gomolo.com/uttarayan-movie/15408 |date=24 September 2015 }} The 2001 Hindi film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke follows a similar plotline and has been compared with the film.{{cite news |last1=Rustam |first1=Chhupa |title=Double trouble all the way |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/03/25/stories/14252183.htm |accessdate=11 October 2020 |date=25 March 2001 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020313014617/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/03/25/stories/14252183.htm |work=The Hindu |archivedate=13 March 2002}}