Dr. Vidya

The movie was shot in an era when educated people in cities were getting influenced by the western culture, hence the people from rural areas who placed a lot of importance on values and culture, strongly abstained from marrying into city people's homes. Geeta (Vyjanthimala) is a girl from a well-to-do family and is well educated, her parents had brought up her with traditional values and respect for those values. After her graduation, her parents decide to marry her off to Ratan Chowdhury, (Manoj Kumar) the son of a zamindar, who had the mind frame that a highly educated wife would be incapable of handling and managing a home, especially in a joint family. Later, he marries Geeta, but his mentality and the talk of others stop him from accepting her. He disowns her and poor Geeta has to go back to her parents' house. Her father-in-law (Nazir Hussain) also does in a state of shock after leaving Geeta at her father's (Shivraj) place

Even after a lot of insistence from her parents and friends, she refuses to remarry. Instead, she continues her studies to become a doctor. After garnering a degree in medical science, she goes back to Ratan's village as Dr Vidya as none of the villagers had seen her during the marriage ceremony. She stays at the same house as Ratan on a rental basis, As he has shifted to another house. Geeta wants to clear the wrong perceptions that Ratan has about her. Ratan couldn't recognise her, as he had not even seen her face, even during marriage. He falls in love with Vidya and intends to marry her, but one day during the annual cart race, Ratan meets with an accident and suffers a very bad injury, after which needs surgery. Due to the unavailability of any other doctor, Geeta has to do the job. She performs it successfully. Will Ratan accept Geeta in her new avatar?

• Vyjayanthimala as Geetha / Dr. Vidya
• Manoj Kumar as Ratan Chowdhury
• Leela Chitnis
• Nazir Hussain
• Helen
• Sunder
• Madan Puri
• Prem Chopra
• Mumtaz Begum

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| released = 1962 (India)

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The film's soundtrack was composed by S. D. Burman with lyrics provided by Majrooh Sultanpuri and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.{{cite news|url=http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/album/H001954.html |title=Dr. Vidya (1962) |website=Raaga.com |access-date=2012-02-10}}

At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed around {{INR}}80,00,000, thus becoming the eighteenth highest-grossing film of 1962.{{cite news |url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=168&catName=MTk2Mg== |title=Box Office 1962 |publisher=Boxofficeindia.com |access-date=2012-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014080632/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=168&catName=MTk2Mg== |archive-date=14 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}

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• [http://www.gomolo.com/dr-vidya-movie/3350 Dr. Vidya profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081010/http://www.gomolo.com/dr-vidya-movie/3350 |date=4 March 2016 }} at Gomolo.com

Category:1960s Hindi-language films

Category:1960s Indian films

Category:1962 films

Category:Indian black-and-white films

Category:Indian romantic drama films

Category:1962 romantic drama films

Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman

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