Delightful opening! The shoe repair guy, plying his trade on sidewalk, asserts it will take four pause worth stitches, and the hero is concerned about whether he has the sum. Those were the days! 1955!
The artist playing Kalyani, presumably Anubha Gupta, here looks quite as presentable as her features would make one expect, so it must have been the artistic capability that made her look less while playing an opportunistic character in Trijama.
Something very important is said 18:57 by the father to his daughter whom he hasn't deprived of education and it's flowering of spirit, although he isn't exactly flush and regrets having been unable to give his son a further education in law as befits a gentleman according to the norms of the era. He tells the daughter, mere education isn't enough, you have to have strength to be able to go out and take the social hostility before you are able to use your education.
The attitude of the mother post the demise of the father, however, is somewhat a previous incarnation of that from Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, what with her hostility towards her educated daughter, attempts to have that daughter's suitor matched with the younger daughter instead, and extraordinary resistance towards that daughter working, however desperate the poverty of the house and starving younger children 37:31.
It all comes to a head when the brother proposes the obvious match for thus educated sister, which the mother explodes at the thought of 1:02:49 - since this earning, educated elder daughter is a widow resulting from a death of her bridegroom from her childhood marriage, and the family hasn't quite absorbed the ideals of progressive father now gone, or at least the mother has not. She wishes her widowed daughter to follow idea is of a family lore of a young sati, and denies that that girl happened to live due to heavy rains that enabled her to escape!
All that talk of ideals is, of course a mere convenient cover up for the selfishness of the widowed mother who makes the daughter feel guilty 1:04:00 about caring about herself rather than the siblings who depend on her!
The story is slow to unfold, but it catches momentum, and one is in for a treat of a performance from the beautiful Sabitri Chatterji who is so unconscious of her beauty most of the time, amongst the various other characters that get manipulated by the self sacrifice drama imposed on the widowed daughter.
Funny part is how the mother, supposedly old fashioned idealistic one who won't allow the widowed daughter to marry someone who cares for her, is pressuring her to agree to play her part in a fraud to manipulate the guy so the boss can destroy him and other workforce! Here stands exposed the complete selfishness of the woman who is sacrificing a daughter in name of ideal but in reality for her own children.
Wish one can say there is a happy ending, and the director and script leave one to imagine it, when the union arrives at her doorstep to announce they stand with her, her beau asking for her forgiveness, her brother and his wife arrive to support her. But the widowed heroine's union is left to conjecture, while it's the leftist victory portrayed explicitly in words and scene at the finale.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmcgriRoRs&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmcgriRoRs
The artist playing Kalyani, presumably Anubha Gupta, here looks quite as presentable as her features would make one expect, so it must have been the artistic capability that made her look less while playing an opportunistic character in Trijama.
Something very important is said 18:57 by the father to his daughter whom he hasn't deprived of education and it's flowering of spirit, although he isn't exactly flush and regrets having been unable to give his son a further education in law as befits a gentleman according to the norms of the era. He tells the daughter, mere education isn't enough, you have to have strength to be able to go out and take the social hostility before you are able to use your education.
The attitude of the mother post the demise of the father, however, is somewhat a previous incarnation of that from Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, what with her hostility towards her educated daughter, attempts to have that daughter's suitor matched with the younger daughter instead, and extraordinary resistance towards that daughter working, however desperate the poverty of the house and starving younger children 37:31.
It all comes to a head when the brother proposes the obvious match for thus educated sister, which the mother explodes at the thought of 1:02:49 - since this earning, educated elder daughter is a widow resulting from a death of her bridegroom from her childhood marriage, and the family hasn't quite absorbed the ideals of progressive father now gone, or at least the mother has not. She wishes her widowed daughter to follow idea is of a family lore of a young sati, and denies that that girl happened to live due to heavy rains that enabled her to escape!
All that talk of ideals is, of course a mere convenient cover up for the selfishness of the widowed mother who makes the daughter feel guilty 1:04:00 about caring about herself rather than the siblings who depend on her!
The story is slow to unfold, but it catches momentum, and one is in for a treat of a performance from the beautiful Sabitri Chatterji who is so unconscious of her beauty most of the time, amongst the various other characters that get manipulated by the self sacrifice drama imposed on the widowed daughter.
Funny part is how the mother, supposedly old fashioned idealistic one who won't allow the widowed daughter to marry someone who cares for her, is pressuring her to agree to play her part in a fraud to manipulate the guy so the boss can destroy him and other workforce! Here stands exposed the complete selfishness of the woman who is sacrificing a daughter in name of ideal but in reality for her own children.
Wish one can say there is a happy ending, and the director and script leave one to imagine it, when the union arrives at her doorstep to announce they stand with her, her beau asking for her forgiveness, her brother and his wife arrive to support her. But the widowed heroine's union is left to conjecture, while it's the leftist victory portrayed explicitly in words and scene at the finale.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmcgriRoRs&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmcgriRoRs
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