Laado

Laado ( Lovely daughter) is a 2000 Indian Haryanvi-language romance film directed and co-written by Ashwini Chaudhary, starring Ashutosh Rana and Arundhati.

The film's music was composed by Lalit Sen and released on 5 October 2000.

Plot
Urmi(Arundhati), a newly married young bride is left behind in the village with her in-laws, while her husband Arvind goes off to a job in the big city. Inder (Ashutosh Rana), her husband's cousin falls in love with her and proposes to her. Unable to deal with her husband's neglect and her in-laws nagging her for a child, Urmi escapes into a relationship with Inder. When the relationship comes out in the open, Urmi has to deal with not only the family's accusations but also her lover's cowardice. Declared guilty by the local village court, Urmi demands justice from a court made of all the village heads, where her husband's neglect and her lover's cowardice are revealed.

Cast

 * Arundhati as Urmi
 * Ashutosh Rana as Inder Dahiya
 * Arun Bali as Chaudhary Nafe Singh
 * Rajendra Gupta as Chaudhary Dilawar Singh
 * Sri Vallabh Vyas as Chaudhary Jorawar Singh

Awards

 * Won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 2000 National Film Awards. This was the first time a Haryanvi movie won a national award.