Bandini (film)

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Movie
Original title Bandini
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1963
length 157 minutes
Rod
Director Bimal Roy
script Nabendu Ghosh , Jarasandha , Paul Mahendra
production Bimal Roy
music Sachin Dev Burman
camera Kamal Bose
cut Madhu Prabhavalkar
occupation

Bandini ( Hindi : बन्दिनी , bandinī ; Urdu : بندِنی; translated: captured ) is a Hindi film by Bimal Roy from 1963 and is one of the director's best-known works.

action

1934: Kalyani is sent to a women's prison, where she has to serve eight years for murder. She is very popular with the guards. The prison doctor Devendra also immediately notices her, because she is the only volunteer who offers to help a sick inmate as a nurse. Devendra falls in love with her and wants to learn more about her past.

Kalyani is the daughter of a postmaster in Bengal and falls in love with the revolutionary Bikash Ghosh. When her father finally agrees to the marriage, Bikash has to disappear from the village. He promises to come back to Kalyani first, but never returned. Only later does she find out that Bikash has married someone else. The family becomes a mockery of the village, which prompts Kalyani to leave the village to avoid dishonoring her father. Now she works in a hospital, where she takes care of quarrelsome and unpopular women. Her father goes to look for her and unfortunately dies in an accident. On the same day, it turns out that one of her patients is Bikash's wife. Kalyani sees this woman as the cause of all her problems and poisons her.

This story doesn't deter Deven from planning to marry Kalyani. Even his mother accepts them. When she leaves prison, she is expected at Deven's house. But suddenly she meets Bikash, who is sick. In the process, she learns of the circumstances in Bikash's unhappy marriage, which was only the subject of freedom.

Now Kalyani has to decide either Bikash or Devendra. Finally she realizes that she was trapped in her love for Bikash the whole time and that she ultimately chooses love and thus Bikash.

backgrounds

The film is based on a book by Jarasandha (real name Charuchandra Chakraborty ), a former head of the Central Prison in Alipur , who turned his experiences into fictional stories.

The movie songs are sung by Asha Bhosle , Sachin Dev Burman , Manna Dey , Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh , the lyrics are by Shailendra . The busy production designer Sudhendu Roy was responsible for the construction of the film .

Bandini is one of the masterpieces of Bimal Roy , who died three years after this film and is considered one of the best Indian film directors of his time.

The role of Kalyani, who is also the heart of the film, earned Nutan great recognition. Her portrayal in this film is often touted as one of the best in Hindi cinema. At this point, Nutan was married and pregnant with their son, later actor Monish Behl .

Kalyani's past is told as a flashback.

Reviews

... probably the only consistent portrayal of female guilt in Indian films.

Awards

Filmfare Award 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, p. 375.
  2. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, p. 376.

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