is a 1944 Indian

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...

-language film directed by

W. Z. Ahmed Wahiduddin Ziauddin Ahmed (1916 – 15 April 2007) was a Pakistani filmmaker, known primarily for his work in the 1940s. After the partition of India, Ahmed continued to make movies in Pakistan but was able to make only two films. Career in ...

. It is an adaptation of

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wo ...

's 19th-century English novel '' Tess of the D’Urbervilles'' to an Indian setting.

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* 1944 films 1940s Hindi-language films Indian romantic drama films 1944 romantic drama films Indian black-and-white films Films based on Tess of the d'Urbervilles {{1940s-Hindi-film-stub