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FILMIN DI A
February,
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their own mine kills fifty workers. That silences them and over the dead bodies of the poor both the ruler and the capitalists join hands in an unholy conspiracy against the people.
Incidentally, this is the most and only dramatic incident in the story. It is well-timed and beautifully executed to bring home the cruel fate of the poor sandwiched between the rulers and the capitalists, both exploiting them for different ends.
Dr. Chowdhary, following the footsteps of Gandhi ji in the face of danger, rushes to the rescue of the distressed but is shot dead by the guards at the mine. Just three shots! One less or one more would have confused our identification of the character with Gandhi ji.
The death of Dr. Chowdhary makes the love-sick Mukherjee a democrat overnight and now comes the climax of revolution. Robin Hood Dulal rushes to and fro evading the soldiers and the price on his head.
Shubha courts imprisonment and so does Mr. Mukherjee. Very soon the people of Anjangarh — a couple of hundred at the most — march to the ruler's palace with their Robin Hood leading them.
After the usual vituperation, Dulal begins bargaining w ith the ruler and the capitalists and all terms being quickly granted, a benign autocracy — or was it a weak democracy? — is ushered in. Now we see the two patriots — Shubha and Mukherjee — coming out of jail and they soon become Mr. and Mrs. Leader, for no fault or sacrifice of their own. A BORING PICTURE
The production values of the picture are in keeping with the recent standard of New Theatres. With the exception of one sequence, already mentioned above, nothing in the picture is worthy of the much-boosted name of Bimal Roy as a director.
The music of the picture has classical fragrance and sounds sweet to ears more enlightened than those of the masses. The dialogue is rather poor for the theme.
From the players, Bipin Gupta easily gives the best performance as Dr. Chowdhary. He delivers his dialogue in an emotional strain but is inclined to be a bit too slow and deliberate in doing so. And yet he speaks too well for a Bengali. The next best performance is given by the little girl (difficult to find her name
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owing to the idiotic arrangement of the picture booklet) who plays Dulal's daughter. That is a bright girl with a screen personality and gives a splendid promise of being a very good artiste some day.
Ajay Kumar who plays "Mr. Mukherjee" is evidently new to the screen. He fs a man with heavy shoulders but plays his maiden role with dignity and restraint. He will need a couple of pictures more to remove his camera consciousness.
Sunanda Devi plays "Shubha' looks fat and clumsy. She sj Bengali Hindustani and fail make an impression even in the < to the ground simple role whicl plays. Hiralal plavs the king p well.
The picture is boring throu<; because of its familiar story weak handling. It won't pay th hibitors to make much of this pic In fact, it might prove a losing position.
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