- Country: India
- Genres: N/A
- Release:
- Director: Master Vinayak
- Writers: R.S. Junnarkar , V.S. Khandekar
- Language: Marathi
- Stars: Master Vinayak , Leela Chitnis , Indira Wadkar , Baburao Pendharkar , Hardikar , Ratnaprabha , Vaishampayan , N.G. Pandit Rao , Anant Marathe
- Runtime: 150 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Holy Crime (India) , Chhaya
- Plot: A celebrated melodrama. A bank employee who steals money to buy medicine for his dying wife is caught, jailed and dies of shame. His eldest son Prakash (Vinayak) publishes a poem in the very newspaper that publicized his father's crime. The judge (Hardikar) who convicted Prakash's father gives him a poetry prize and the judge's daughter Chhaya (Chitnis) happens to fall in love with him. But when she learnsof Prakash's family history, Chhaya allows her father and her suitor, Dr. Atul (Pendharkar), to accuse Prakash of molesting her and sends him to prison. Prakash's destitute sister Kala (Ratnaprabha) becomes a prostitute to pay for the younger brother Suman's (Marathe) medical bills levied by the ambitious Dr. Atul. Kala bears a child and has to kill it.
- IMDB:tt0270273
Chhaya Cast
Master Vinayak
Director
Master Vinayak
Prakash
Leela Chitnis
Chhaya
Indira Wadkar
Baburao Pendharkar
Dr. Atal
Hardikar
Judge
Ratnaprabha
Vaishampayan
N.G. Pandit Rao
Anant Marathe