Mutthi Bhar Chawal (A Handful of Rice) is a 1978 Pakistani classical Urdu film based on a short novel of Rajinder Singh Bedi, Ek Chadar Maili Si.
It is one of the greatest hits of Sangeeta and debut film of Syed Noor as a screenwriter.
[4] BBC Urdu made it in the list of 10 Best selected Pakistani cinema films.
When Rano suddenly becomes widowed after her husband dies in a horse and carriage accident, she struggles to raise her children.
Her in-laws come with a marriage proposal and forcibly ask her to marry Rano's brother-in-law Mangal who is in love with a vegetable seller's daughter, Lajjo and is much younger than her and who always saw her as a sister-in-law.