Bahurani is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by T. Prakash Rao. It stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Feroz Khan in pivotal roles. It is a remake of the Telugu movie Ardhangi, which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel Swayamsiddha written by Manilal Banerjee. Swayamsiddha went on to be adapted into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name and later in Hindi as Jyoti in 1981. Ardhangi was also remade earlier in Tamil as Pennin Perumai.

Plot

Zamindar has two sons — Raghu, by his first wife and Vikram, by his second wife. Raghu is a simple-minded and innocent young man. Vikram is cruel, domineering, selfish and greedy and he maltreats everyone, from servants to his own brother Raghu. Vikram's vicious mother Rajeshwari does the same.