Awara - The vagabond of Bombay

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Movie
German title Awara - The Vagabond of Bombay
(Alternative title: The Vagabond)
Original title Awaara
Country of production India
original language English , Hindi
Publishing year 1951
length 193 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Raj Kapoor
script Khwaja Ahmad Abbas ; VP Sathe
production Raj Kapoor
music Shankar-Jaikishan
camera Radhu Karmakar
cut GG Mayekar
occupation

Awara - The vagabond of Bombay ( Hindi : अवारा, avārā ; Urdu : آوارہ; translated: vagabond ) is an Indian fictional film by Raj Kapoor from 1951. The drama is one of the most successful Hindi films of the 1950s. In the GDR cinemas it was shown under the title Der Vagabund .

action

Raj, a young man, is charged with the attempted murder of Judge Raghunath. He is defended by the young lawyer Rita, who asks Raghunath about his past: 24 years ago, Raghunath cast his wife out. At that time, in revenge, she was kidnapped by the gang leader Jagga, because Jagga von Raghunath was once put behind bars and branded as a rapist. And for one reason only: Jagga's ancestors were gangsters and in Raghunath's eyes a son of a good person is also a good person and a child of a villain will always be an evil person - and this made Jagga guilty.

Jagga released Leela, but when it was discovered that Leela was pregnant, rumors spread that the child was not from Raghunath. Even Raghunath was soon convinced that Jagga had raped his wife.

When Leela was cast out by her husband, she gave birth to her son Raj in the gutter. Jagga made a thief out of Raj, because Raj trusted him because he saw in him a father figure. But this is his undoing because he loses his childhood friend Rita, is thrown out of school and ends up in the youth prison.

After Raj is released as a young man, he befriends the now grown-up Rita, who has lived with Raghunath since her father's death. Raj also realizes that Jagga is responsible for all his mother's suffering and then kills him. He only fails in the attempt to murder his own father, Raghunath. Raj is jailed for his crime and Rita promises to wait for him.

background

After Raj Kapoor had built his own studio in Chembur, Bombay with the proceeds from the film Barsaat (1949), he released his most famous film, Awaara , in which the collaborators most closely associated with his work were involved: the screenwriters Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and VP Sathe , the songwriters Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri , the production designer MR Achrekar , cameraman Radhu Karmakar and the composer duo Shankar-Jaikishan . The playback singers are Shamshal Begum , Manna Dey , Lata Mangeshkar , Mukesh and Mohammed Rafi .

Raj Kapoor's role type is based on the character of Charlie Chaplin in terms of clothing and habitus and is used in this way in Kapoor's films Jagte Raho and Shree 420 .

Awaara was also successful abroad, with an 82-minute version of the film even being distributed for a short time in the USA. Kapoor and Nargis became stars in the USSR , the Arab world and Africa.

The title song Awaara Hoon ( I am a tramp ) in particular was extremely popular in India as well as in Russia , Turkey , Romania and the People's Republic of China .

Nargis' appearance in a bathing suit was often mistaken for the first such scene in an Indian film, but such a thing was sometimes wrong. a. already seen in Master Vinayak's Brahmachari (1938).

Reviews

“Socially engaged film in which real elements mix with imaginative legendary quality. Formally influenced by Western models, but endeavored to create an independent visual language. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awara - The Vagabond of Bombay. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 25, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used