She also begins to develop a friendship with Dev, much to Satya's happiness and sadness. Roop misconstrues Zafar's intentions and falls in love with him. Zafar wants to exact revenge on his parents, Bahaar Begum and Balraj Chaudhry (who abandoned Zafar after ending his extramarital affair with Bahaar) by seducing Roop, as she is married to Balraj's legitimate son, Dev. Roop expresses interest in writing about the condition of the locality in which the brothel is located, during which she meets with a womanizing blacksmith named Zafar. She also begins working in her husband's publishing house, to use her education to her advantage. A depressed Roop takes solace in music, which she begins by learning from the madam of a brothel, Bahaar Begum. Once married, Dev tells Roop that he still loves Satya and that their relationship will only be cordial and platonic. Roop keeps rejecting Satya's proposal but later gets convinced by her father, Dharampal, and agrees on the condition that she will marry Dev to which Satya agrees. She goes back to her native village in the Rajputana area and requests her childhood acquaintance, Roop, to provide companionship to her husband, Dev Chaudhry who runs a liberal newspaper. Satya Chaudhry is told by her doctor that she has cancer and will die soon.

Nonetheless, it became a box-office flop. The film received mixed reviews upon release, with criticism towards its direction, screenplay, storyline and length, but received praise for its music, visuals, art direction and performances of the cast. Principal photography of the film began in April 2018 and the film was released on 17 April 2019 on 5,300 screens worldwide making it the widest Bollywood release of 2019 as yet. Set in the pre-independence British era, the film stars Madhuri Dixit, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur and Sanjay Dutt. Stigma or Blemish Hindi pronunciation: ) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama directed by Abhishek Varman and produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta under Dharma Productions and Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment in association with Fox Star Studios as presenter and distributor.

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