本片是一部印度剧情片，由夏姆·班尼戈尔导演，由Smita Patil/Anant Nag/纳萨鲁丁·沙主演。
剧情简介：Coming from a poor and destitute family, Urvashi is encouraged by her mother, Shanta (Sualbha Deshpande) to be on more than friendly terms with a much older male, Keshav Dalvi (Amol Palekar). Keshav takes a liking to young Urvashi, and encourages her to explore her talents in films, which she does, and does gain popularity, starting as a singer, than accomplishing herself as an actress/singer. She decides to marry Keshav, only to be discouraged by her own mother, but she is strong-willed, and does marry him. She has a baby girl after the marriage, but feels stifled and oppressed with Keshav, and has affairs with her co-star Rajan (Anant Nag), a film producer, Sunil Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), but ends up dissatisfied. Then she meets wealthy Vinayak Kale (Amrish Puri), and decides to settle down with him, little knowing that he is already married to another woman, and also has a son. By the time she finds out it is too late, she has already been accepted in his household, and any woman, whether his own mother(Dina Pathak), his present handicapped wife, and even Urvashi have to follow the rules laid down - no women can leave the house under any circumstances, except after death.
外文名：भूमिका
别名：The Role / Bhumika
类型：剧情
地区：印度
导演：夏姆·班尼戈尔
编剧：夏姆·班尼戈尔 / Satyadev Dubey / Girish Karnad / Hansa Wadkar
演员：Smita Patil / Anant Nag / 纳萨鲁丁·沙 / 阿莫瑞什·普瑞 / 阿莫·帕拉卡 / 库尔布尚·卡尔班达 / Sulabha Deshpande / Baby Ruksana / B.V. Karanth / Dina Pathak / Mohan Agashe / Master Abhitab / 欧姆·普瑞 / Benjamin Gillani
