Satyam Shivam Sundaram
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Satyam Shivam Sundaram (meaning truth is God and God is beautiful) is a 1978 Raj Kapoor-directed film starring Shashi Kapoor and Zeenat Aman. This film is famous for its bold scenes involving the actress. It also had to face a stiff battle in getting past the scissors of Indian Film Censor Board for some of its risque scenes.
[edit] Plot
The movie is set in a village where the heroine, Zeenat Aman, lives with her father, and the hero, Shashi Kapoor, comes as an engineer to oversee and build a major dam. The girl is tall, very attractive and also god-fearing, she goes to the temple daily and is a very good singer. The title song from this movie made it to Binaca Geetmala. The hero falls in love with her, and asks her father permission to marry her. However, she is scared of the marriage.
There is a reason behind it - she is beautiful, but only on one side of the face. The other side had been scarred and disfigured by an old burn injury. She keeps that part of the face hidden by a veil using her sari palloo. She is afraid that he will turn away when he sees her gruesome side of the face. There is a catastrophe in the dam and lots of commotion. The hero ultimately accepts her and they live happily evera fter.
[edit] Music
Lata Mangeshkar lends her voice to the Eeshwar satya hai song, which was among the chart-toppers of the year.