

Believing his wife to be dead, a man lets a woman, who has lost her child, nurse and bring up his infant son - until he finds out that his wife is still alive, and wants the baby back at any cost.
Acting
Sridevi and Jaya Prada's volcanic maternal standoffs.
Costume
Saree color coding for emotional states: peak 80s.
Director
Vijay Sadanah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aulad belongs to the 'maternal melodrama' wave of 80s Hindi cinema, where biological vs. adoptive motherhood became battlefield for anxieties about changing family structures and female economic independence.
Sridevi and Jaya Prada were real-life rivals for top heroine status; director Vijay Sadanah reportedly cast them together specifically to weaponize their off-screen tension.