Deep Jwele Jai
দীপ জ্বেলে যাই
Suchitra Sen, Basanta Raychaudhary, Pahari Sanyal
When one saw the Hindi remake decades ago, which incidentally was considered a very high value film made at a very low budget and very very appropriate for both romantic and intellectual appreciation, not so easily achieved a feat since the b&w era, one had no idea then of just how difficult the role was, although the heroine who played it got not merely appreciation but much more - it was perhaps unspoken but was universally considered a feather in the very resplendently, scintillatingly well studded crown of her repertoire.
Now, having seen the original a few times over the past few years, several things are far clearer.
For one, this film is far harder to see, since the level of performance is far superior especially as far as the medical staff and particularly much more so the artist goes - remaking a film where original is played by Suchitra Sen after all is no joke when it comes to casting, and the time wasn't right for anyone capable of doing justice sufficiently well, since Meena Kumari was no longer in the play and the three Bengal tigresses of Hindi films of seventies were still very new.
So this original has on one hand far more natural, superior performances,in particular as far as the medical staff and particularly much more so the major role goes, which in turn brings out the very difficult, dark underbelly of it, the effect of such work on the staff.
Also, as usual, the Hindi remake is glamorous and this one is devoid of it - the main patient here, Basant Choudhury, seen in Bimal Roy's Parakh, where he was the modest, self effacing romantic angle, is here playing his role much more subdued, realistic than the flamboyant superstar of Hindi cinema who was much more dramatic; also, here the first patient treated by the nurse isn't really seen, whereas the remake had a full song picturised on him, with him being tantalizingly elusive but still quite identifiable he-man who untill then was a favourite of the middle class films in a poet's role.
In so small a detail as the views visible from the hospital when the scene has a gallery open, a balcony or a window, too, it's far more real,here - possibly shot in a real building if not an actual hospital in midst of Calcutta - while the remake, likely shot in studio, lacks the reality check. The outing scene similarly here is more real, with the two on shore of Hooghly, unlike the remake where its an amorous full song shit on a barge.
Strangely enough this film is the perfect antithesis of a very much cult film of the time that incidentally I thought was pretty horrible in every way, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, in that here one gets an inkling of just how devastating the temporary attachment is for those treating the patients, however much the benefit for the said patient, while the latter practically demonises anyone not amenable to providing a far more intimate temporary "treatment" - with no concern whatsoever about the effects possibly suffered by the one providing such "treatment", as if the young woman is no different from a store bought doll sold for the purpose.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyxY8MljjNY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0R8RdDG03s
দীপ জ্বেলে যাই
Suchitra Sen, Basanta Raychaudhary, Pahari Sanyal
When one saw the Hindi remake decades ago, which incidentally was considered a very high value film made at a very low budget and very very appropriate for both romantic and intellectual appreciation, not so easily achieved a feat since the b&w era, one had no idea then of just how difficult the role was, although the heroine who played it got not merely appreciation but much more - it was perhaps unspoken but was universally considered a feather in the very resplendently, scintillatingly well studded crown of her repertoire.
Now, having seen the original a few times over the past few years, several things are far clearer.
For one, this film is far harder to see, since the level of performance is far superior especially as far as the medical staff and particularly much more so the artist goes - remaking a film where original is played by Suchitra Sen after all is no joke when it comes to casting, and the time wasn't right for anyone capable of doing justice sufficiently well, since Meena Kumari was no longer in the play and the three Bengal tigresses of Hindi films of seventies were still very new.
So this original has on one hand far more natural, superior performances,in particular as far as the medical staff and particularly much more so the major role goes, which in turn brings out the very difficult, dark underbelly of it, the effect of such work on the staff.
Also, as usual, the Hindi remake is glamorous and this one is devoid of it - the main patient here, Basant Choudhury, seen in Bimal Roy's Parakh, where he was the modest, self effacing romantic angle, is here playing his role much more subdued, realistic than the flamboyant superstar of Hindi cinema who was much more dramatic; also, here the first patient treated by the nurse isn't really seen, whereas the remake had a full song picturised on him, with him being tantalizingly elusive but still quite identifiable he-man who untill then was a favourite of the middle class films in a poet's role.
In so small a detail as the views visible from the hospital when the scene has a gallery open, a balcony or a window, too, it's far more real,here - possibly shot in a real building if not an actual hospital in midst of Calcutta - while the remake, likely shot in studio, lacks the reality check. The outing scene similarly here is more real, with the two on shore of Hooghly, unlike the remake where its an amorous full song shit on a barge.
Strangely enough this film is the perfect antithesis of a very much cult film of the time that incidentally I thought was pretty horrible in every way, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, in that here one gets an inkling of just how devastating the temporary attachment is for those treating the patients, however much the benefit for the said patient, while the latter practically demonises anyone not amenable to providing a far more intimate temporary "treatment" - with no concern whatsoever about the effects possibly suffered by the one providing such "treatment", as if the young woman is no different from a store bought doll sold for the purpose.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyxY8MljjNY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0R8RdDG03s
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