27 Down
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 27 Down सत्ताइस डाउन |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Awtar Krishna Kaul |
| script | Awtar Krishna Kaul |
| production | Awtar Krishna Kaul |
| music | Bhubaneshwar Misra and Hariprasad Chaurasia as Bhuban Hari |
| camera | Apurba Kishore Bir |
| cut | Ravi Shankar Patnaik |
| occupation | |
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27 Down ( Hindi सत्ताइस डाउन sattāis ḍāun ) is an Indian feature film by Awtar Krishna Kaul from 1974. It is based on the Hindi novel "Athara Sooraj Ke Paudhe" by Ramesh Bakshi .
action
As a railway employee, Sanjay takes the train across the country and ponders his life.
He comes from Bhusawal in northern Maharashtra . In his childhood he was enthusiastic about the railroad - he played on tracks and in old railway wagons. His father is a train driver, but can no longer work after a serious accident. However, Sanjay developed artistic ambitions and attended the renowned JJ School of Art in Bombay . There he ignores the advice that his now widowed father writes to him. But shortly before completing his studies, Sanjay cannot help but urge his father to finally get a job and work as a train attendant on the Indian railroad .
For convenience, Sanjay also drives around on the trains outside of his working hours, where he enjoys free meals instead of staying at the railway workers' quarters. He gets to know the commuter Shalini who works for the state-run Life Insurance Corporation of India and uses her income to support her grandfather and younger siblings like he does his father. Both of them often go out and have a romantic relationship, but when they visit their family together, she denies the relationship with Sanjay and introduces him as a colleague.
When Sanjay's father learns of his son's relationship through his railroad colleague Bhavu, he lets Sanjay come to Bhusawal on the pretext of being ill. He has already arranged Sanjay's wedding to a peasant girl from the village of Ramwadi . There are four buffalos as dowry , but they cannot hide the intellectual differences between the two. Incited by Bhavu, Sanjay's wife becomes more and more jealous of her former lover until the marriage fails.
When he meets Shalini again in Bombay, he realizes that they can no longer build on their time together. Sanjay flees reality on the train to Varanasi and roams through the city until he ends up with a prostitute in the evening. He returns to Ramwadi, but his wife and circumstances have not changed. Sanjay is disgusted by his stupid wife and visits Shalini again, who he suggests to start all over again. She makes an appointment with him for the next day at five in the evening on the platform, but does not appear at the meeting point.
Remarks
27 Down is the only film by the promising young director Awtar Krishna Kaul . It was financially supported by the Film Finance Corporation and completed just before Kaul died, likely trying to save someone from drowning. The film is told in a flashback from the "27 Down Varanasi Express" departing from Bombay, which gave the film its name. The narrative is driven forward with numerous jump cuts . Ramesh Bakshi wrote the story and dialogues . Production designer was Bansi Chandragupta .
Ravi Kichlu wrote and sings the train song "Chuk Chuk Chuk Chuk" , the words are from Nand Kishore Mittal . Anjali Chaudhuri interprets further thumri and dadra .
The film passed censorship on December 31, 1973.
Awards
The director was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1974 . Cinematographer Apurba Kishore Bir received the award for best camera at the 1973 National Film Awards , while Kaul was posthumously honored as director and producer with the National Film Award for best Hindi film .
criticism
The Zugmotiv dominates the high-contrast images of the film, creating a classic regulatory uptake of an empty platform that fills within seconds with thousands of commuters.
literature
- 27 Down . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 419
Web links
- 27 Down in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 27 Down (Trailer)
- Jai Arjun Singh on Awtar Kaul, 1973 and a cinematic what-if
- Apurba Kishore Bir on 27 Down ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 419
- ^ Movie director dies in double tragedy in New Strait Times of July 30, 1974
- ↑ http://archive.pardo.ch/details.do?methodcall=premiDetails&oc=482493
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 419
