This film is set in WWII eastern sector, with beginning in Singapore and later part in Calcutta. As one is amazed at the wide canvas of the story watching this, suddenly at close to midway this connects with the superlative Navketan film Hum Dono, and then on it's a matter of differences between the two.
Where this one is a tad more realistic is in the locations it's shot in Calcutta, and also the very real recognition early on albeit not immediately at sight, by the wife about the identical looking guy being in reality a stranger.
But then on the awful part is about her fate being sealed - as a traditional woman she has no option, in her own consciousness at any rate, but to give up her life due to her being unable to escape pretending that the stranger is her husband - her blind mother in law won't sustain the shock of having lost the son to death.
Whereas, in Navketan's Hum Dono, the wife has a weak heart and the stranger, Dev Anand, is forced by her doctor to continue to let them all think he is the husband - and the happy ending of the husband actually returning alive, after all, is very satisfactory in that film.
Here, one is completely left in shock and horror as the main couple discovers that the widow has fooled them and given up,her life to the holy river she bathed in every day. One wishes they had given more thought to saving her life - surely there was some way!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhFjNMpjfY
Where this one is a tad more realistic is in the locations it's shot in Calcutta, and also the very real recognition early on albeit not immediately at sight, by the wife about the identical looking guy being in reality a stranger.
But then on the awful part is about her fate being sealed - as a traditional woman she has no option, in her own consciousness at any rate, but to give up her life due to her being unable to escape pretending that the stranger is her husband - her blind mother in law won't sustain the shock of having lost the son to death.
Whereas, in Navketan's Hum Dono, the wife has a weak heart and the stranger, Dev Anand, is forced by her doctor to continue to let them all think he is the husband - and the happy ending of the husband actually returning alive, after all, is very satisfactory in that film.
Here, one is completely left in shock and horror as the main couple discovers that the widow has fooled them and given up,her life to the holy river she bathed in every day. One wishes they had given more thought to saving her life - surely there was some way!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhFjNMpjfY
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