The wheel of luck
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The wheel of luck |
| Original title | Chakra चक्र |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 135 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rabindra Dharmaraj |
| script | Shama Zaidi , Javed Siddiqui |
| production | Manmohan Shetty , Pradeep Uppoor |
| music | Hridaynath Mangeshkar |
| camera | Barun Mukherjee |
| cut | Bhanudas |
| occupation | |
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The wheel of luck (Original title: Chakra ; Hindi चक्र cakra ) is an Indian drama directed by Rabindra Dharmaraj from 1981.
action
Amma fled to Bombay with her husband and their baby after he killed a moneylender while trying to rape Amma. Immediately after arriving in town, Amma's husband was shot dead while stealing corrugated iron to build a hut.
Years later, Amma lives with her grown-up son Benwa in a tent camp slum . Benwa's role model is the petty criminal Looka, who also has an affair with Amma. A court banned Looka from staying in the city limits for three years because of a gang robbery in a shop. But he ignores that and after a short time returns and takes Benwas on. He collects his outstanding wages from the dealer Seth, takes him to bars, chases after the prostitute Chenna, whom Benwa adored, and leads him to the brothel district. In the evening, Looka suggests that Benwa could make money selling black alcohol, but Amma is more into a job than shoeshine. At night, Amma's real lover, Anna the truck driver, unexpectedly arrives, which is why Looka quickly leaves the common night camp.
The next morning, already alone again, Amma washes herself - in a sexually charged scene - in front of the greedy eyes of an older slum dweller, the slum dweller Lakshmi's baby dies and Benwa has to keep his promise to work as a shoe shiner. But he quickly gets into an argument with other shoeshines and turns back to petty crime with his cronies. On the same day, Chenna's and Nagu's father is killed by the police with Lathis while trying to steal grain from a truck . In the evening, the residents of the small slum drown their worries together with a binge at the campfire.
Looka confesses to Benwa that Chenna was pregnant by him years ago and had an abortion at his urging. He then tries to find a wife for him and arranges the marriage with the young Amli. Amma is pregnant by Anna and is looking forward to the child, but she becomes a gossip topic in the slum. Looka is beaten up during a raid on the illicit distillery.
With Anna's help, Amma can build a real hut outside of the slum and Benwa now earns money as a car window cleaner. When a baby is found in the garbage in the slum, the police rudely questioned the residents. Chenna and a mentally retarded person are arrested. Benwa marries Amli, who moves in with Amma. Looka was present at the wedding ceremony. In the evening at Amma's hut, Looka can no longer stand his pain. Without money, he is forced to rob a drug store. The police chase him, but initially they surprise the newlyweds while making love. Benwa and Looka are arrested. Amma has a miscarriage.
A bulldozer pushes the dwellings of the illegal slum together and the film ends with Amma's empty eyes.
background
The film is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Marathi author Jaywant Dalvi . It was created with financial support from the National Film Development Corporation .
Some recordings in which the actors move unnoticed among Bombay's slum dwellers and in the brothel district were allegedly taken with a hidden camera.
The lyrics to the music of Hridaynath Mangeshkar were written by Madhosh Bilgrami . Playback singers were Lata Mangeshkar , Bhupendra Singh , Suresh Wadkar , Ravindra Sathe and Chandrashekhar .
Awards
- Filmfare Award / Best Actress to Smita Patil
- Filmfare Award / Best Actor to Naseeruddin Shah
- Filmfare Award / Best Production Design to Bansi Chandragupta
National Film Awards 1982
Locarno International Film Festival 1981
- Golden leopard on Rabindra Dharmaraj
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury to Rabindra Dharmaraj
criticism
“Dharmaraj's only feature film offers a non-idealized view of Bombay's slum dwellers. Patil delivered one of her best realistic representations here. "
literature
- Chakra . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999 revised edition, ISBN 0-85170-669-X , p. 445.
Web links
- The wheel of fortune in the Internet Movie Database (English)