This film is comparatively unknown despite it's featuring the most charismatic and popular pair ever on screen, two is the revered Ravindra Sangeet songs, and it's attempted illustration of what is held since that era in Bengal and for that matter through most of India, as the only respectable ideology. Delightful ending, and lot more.
Perhaps it failed, wasn't popular, because it attempted to sell this ideology and its justification to an audience which knew reality of Aatanka, having lived it through sixties till perhaps now, albeit now its not so much in Calcutta as in rural and more in East Bengal border areas.
It's a bit strange that a mother and child are so disconnected, in spite of her being at home, albeit not housewife. Perhaps it's about the disconnect she has post her changes in life, from the happy simple life uneducated village free spirit to the society lady, without change of her own spirit - and her attempts to comply with what she sees as her husband's wish to transform her into a society lady of upper strata.
One begins to get a feel of the typical discourse from the province that seemed in that era to jump from feudal into modern times without dealing with the hardships that urban life, entrepreneurship et al involve, and instead chose an easier path of vilification of industrialists, with a constant underlying theme of how evil Calcutta life and how heavenly East Bengal rural simplicity; what is naturally left unsaid, in India anyway, was that this was typical East Bengal view, with Hindus included amongst the vilified, and muslims' acts against Hindus during partition or later being justified as leftist revolution where equality was identified with Islam and held as the only doctrine, and Hindus were held parallel to White Russians.
That Europe, and even Germany of the pre WWII era, sought to publicise Jews in the same light, while ever tightening the ghettos the poor Jews lived in, until they were exterminated in the infamous holocaust, isn't forgotten, but merely attempted to be emulated over and over in an attempt to wipe out the last ancient civilisation and culture still living.
Plus there is the other angle when it's about Bengal and naxalite movement - however terminated in a fertile soil of the feudal landscapes of the eastern provinces neighbourhood states, there is no denying it was nurtured by and lives on due only to foreign support, then chiefly from China but now via NGOs, from every power with vested interest in keeping India down, or much better, break it, get back in control so India can be again looted for benefit of the said powers.
The scene somewhere about 1:20 - 1:29, where the father wants to call police so he could go to work without fear and anxiety about his home and family due to the angry crowd at gate, and the child petrified of the crowd shoots from the balcony resulting in stone pelting by the crowd at the home, is eerily familiar now in context of another state, where the nation's security forces are vilified by the said vested interests, despite suffering murderous attacks mostly stoically, while the terrorist facory across border supporting the stone pelters and in fact paying them gets to vilify India due to religious solidarity with oil power that controls U.N..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKOTO7PiTE
Perhaps it failed, wasn't popular, because it attempted to sell this ideology and its justification to an audience which knew reality of Aatanka, having lived it through sixties till perhaps now, albeit now its not so much in Calcutta as in rural and more in East Bengal border areas.
It's a bit strange that a mother and child are so disconnected, in spite of her being at home, albeit not housewife. Perhaps it's about the disconnect she has post her changes in life, from the happy simple life uneducated village free spirit to the society lady, without change of her own spirit - and her attempts to comply with what she sees as her husband's wish to transform her into a society lady of upper strata.
One begins to get a feel of the typical discourse from the province that seemed in that era to jump from feudal into modern times without dealing with the hardships that urban life, entrepreneurship et al involve, and instead chose an easier path of vilification of industrialists, with a constant underlying theme of how evil Calcutta life and how heavenly East Bengal rural simplicity; what is naturally left unsaid, in India anyway, was that this was typical East Bengal view, with Hindus included amongst the vilified, and muslims' acts against Hindus during partition or later being justified as leftist revolution where equality was identified with Islam and held as the only doctrine, and Hindus were held parallel to White Russians.
That Europe, and even Germany of the pre WWII era, sought to publicise Jews in the same light, while ever tightening the ghettos the poor Jews lived in, until they were exterminated in the infamous holocaust, isn't forgotten, but merely attempted to be emulated over and over in an attempt to wipe out the last ancient civilisation and culture still living.
Plus there is the other angle when it's about Bengal and naxalite movement - however terminated in a fertile soil of the feudal landscapes of the eastern provinces neighbourhood states, there is no denying it was nurtured by and lives on due only to foreign support, then chiefly from China but now via NGOs, from every power with vested interest in keeping India down, or much better, break it, get back in control so India can be again looted for benefit of the said powers.
The scene somewhere about 1:20 - 1:29, where the father wants to call police so he could go to work without fear and anxiety about his home and family due to the angry crowd at gate, and the child petrified of the crowd shoots from the balcony resulting in stone pelting by the crowd at the home, is eerily familiar now in context of another state, where the nation's security forces are vilified by the said vested interests, despite suffering murderous attacks mostly stoically, while the terrorist facory across border supporting the stone pelters and in fact paying them gets to vilify India due to religious solidarity with oil power that controls U.N..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKOTO7PiTE
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