Bollywood drama movie, Bhumika: The Role, directed by Shyam Benegal and written by Satyadev Dubey was released on November 11, 1977. The movie starred Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil in lead roles while Mohan Aghase, Anant Nag, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Baby Rukshana, Amrish Puri, Dina pathak, Sulabha Deshpande and Amol Palekar also played important characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was composed by the music director Vanraj Bhatia while the songs were crooned by Bhupendra Singh, Kumari Meena, Chandru Atma, Saraswati Rane, Preeti Sagar etc.

Urvashi aka Usha ( Smita Patil ) belongs to a poor family. Her mother , Shanta ( Sulabha Deshpande ) encourages her to become more friendly with a old male named Keshav Dalvi ( Amol Palekar ). Keshav gives special attention to her and ask her to explore her talent in movies. Soon Usha becomes a famous actress as well as singer. She then decides to get married with Keshav much to the chargein of her mother. Soon they both get married to each other. After few months, she gives birth to a child and it is then she starts feeling ignored by Keshav.

She comes closer to her co-star, Rajan ( Anant Nag ) and ends up developing physical relationship with him. She then also establish physical relationship with a renowned producer, Sunil Verma ( Naseeruddin Shah ). But she still feels unsatisfied. And then she gets into an affair with a wealthy guy named Vinayak Kale ( Amrish Puri ) and decides to get settle down with him. But little does she knows is that Vinayak is already married to someone.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Kahe mera man
2. Mujhse aise na