Begins with superb visuals.
One recalls the then critiques of this film were mostly a shrugging off, while acknowledging the fine job done by all artists, as another muslim social with cliches galore. We weren't used to watching films in theatre that often, and television - limited then to Delhi - showed films once a week, split over the weekend, watching which was usually a communal affair over at a neighbours, whosoever were welcoming enough. Refrigerators were slightly more common by the time this film came, and telephones remained very rare until cellphones era exploded with India talking nonstop. Later, by the time I had television, cable era was just about beginning, but this film had been one amongst hundreds of others, of those made in past decades that one hadn't seen.
Internet cuts through much and one need not go to the effort even of renting a video. So now one sees this, several decades later, and perspective meanwhile has changed with time, in several dimensions.
For one, this film is one of those that tell of an era gone with time, of a city of Nawab of yore who were struggling with new times, some impoverished and attempting to keep a good face, some still wealthy but with greedy relatives manipulating their lives, and more. Interesting, incidentally, seeing males attired in fine colourful silks one associates with feminine attire, for one thing.
And then of course the whole key, women and men segregated, that leads to so much heartbreak and tragedy, since a romance is of necessity by stealth and one might till the last moment not know one is about to marry the wrong guy. Ordinary young women would give in to fate. This courageous one attempts to confront her paramour and instead finds herself in severely dire circumstances, him having been sent out of town by his conniving uncle to not let go of the trust of the property. She finds herself discarded by the heartbroken father, and is unable to speak to the bridegroom when she tries, the moment isn't opportune and he's in too much of a shock.
So she finds herself in the last possible place a respectable woman would ever step in, and yet, is saved by circumstances and good people, step by step, despite the conniving and evil.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P01Kr_2U1QQ
Another copy of the film.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7WtsnF9iiLg
Another copy of the film.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkbih8vdhrc
One recalls the then critiques of this film were mostly a shrugging off, while acknowledging the fine job done by all artists, as another muslim social with cliches galore. We weren't used to watching films in theatre that often, and television - limited then to Delhi - showed films once a week, split over the weekend, watching which was usually a communal affair over at a neighbours, whosoever were welcoming enough. Refrigerators were slightly more common by the time this film came, and telephones remained very rare until cellphones era exploded with India talking nonstop. Later, by the time I had television, cable era was just about beginning, but this film had been one amongst hundreds of others, of those made in past decades that one hadn't seen.
Internet cuts through much and one need not go to the effort even of renting a video. So now one sees this, several decades later, and perspective meanwhile has changed with time, in several dimensions.
For one, this film is one of those that tell of an era gone with time, of a city of Nawab of yore who were struggling with new times, some impoverished and attempting to keep a good face, some still wealthy but with greedy relatives manipulating their lives, and more. Interesting, incidentally, seeing males attired in fine colourful silks one associates with feminine attire, for one thing.
And then of course the whole key, women and men segregated, that leads to so much heartbreak and tragedy, since a romance is of necessity by stealth and one might till the last moment not know one is about to marry the wrong guy. Ordinary young women would give in to fate. This courageous one attempts to confront her paramour and instead finds herself in severely dire circumstances, him having been sent out of town by his conniving uncle to not let go of the trust of the property. She finds herself discarded by the heartbroken father, and is unable to speak to the bridegroom when she tries, the moment isn't opportune and he's in too much of a shock.
So she finds herself in the last possible place a respectable woman would ever step in, and yet, is saved by circumstances and good people, step by step, despite the conniving and evil.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P01Kr_2U1QQ
Another copy of the film.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7WtsnF9iiLg
Another copy of the film.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkbih8vdhrc
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