Amar Jyoti

Adventure classic featuring Durga Khotes most memorable role as the pirate Queen Saudamini Faced with extreme patriarchal laws in an ancient seaport kingdom and denied the legal custody of her infant son Sudhir Saudamini becomes a pirate declaring war on the state and especially on its tyrannical minister of justice Durjaya Chandramohan She attacks a royal ship and captures Durjaya inadvertently also taking Princess Nandini Apte In captivity Durjaya declares his love for Nandini but she falls fir a shepherd boy Nandrekar who turns out to be Saudaminis longlost son Sudhir Durjayas men then capture Saudamini and a palace intrigue ensues marked by her emancipatory rhetoric and the universal humanist arguments of her adviser Shekhar Kale