Heart breaking beginning, with two newly orphaned little boys robbed by one uncle, brought and left at the other uncles' door, and beaten and thrown out by those.
With that beginning, one doesn't quite expect the sudden and very pleasant change of the little boys into the two heroes who seem to be doing more than well enough, except the elder one is avoiding not just marriage but even speaking to women, or being in presence of women.
The character of the elder brother, concentrating all his love and care on the slightly younger one and hence forced to become a harsh, strict guardian rather than the young man that he is who could have a good life of his own, is so well depicted, it could only be in a Bengali film sans the explanatory dialogues about how he has nothing because he sacrificed it and still does. Amazing how well Uttam Kumar portrays it, but then he is so good an artist and has portrayed so very many diverse characters so very well, one has to wonder if Bengali films would have been even a hundredth of what they were if he were not playing roles.
Lovely music, too. But the video seems to be missing some scenes, one at 1:18:55 (- or is that one messed up, appearing later at about 1:32:00? Or is it a flashback?), and at least one before that. But here at 1:37:40, ones heart breaks for the elder brother.
The strange turn in the story, involving clash between the politicos turned film crew and local tribals 1:48:00, is incomprehensible in light of the storyline until then, unless it's based on a true incident.
Have to love the quote at 1:55:35 - "ten brothers can't manage what a sister can do for one"! And thankfully, it all ends well, despite the several scares about life of one brother or other!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fy6jO25fYSM
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