Duniya Na Mane (1937)

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Movie
Original title Duniya Na Mane
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1937
length 166 minutes
Rod
Director V. Shantaram
script Narayan Hari Apte , Munshi Aziz
production Vishnupant Govind Damle , Sheikh Fattelal
music Keshavrao Bhole
camera V. Avadhoot
cut V. Shantaram
occupation

Duniya Na Mane (translated: The world does not approve of it ) is a Hindi film by V. Shantaram from 1937. It deals with the widespread disregard of the wishes of women when getting married .

action

Nirmala, a young girl, is married to the old widower Kakasaheb by her foster parents for a certain sum of money. He himself is a progressive lawyer with a son and daughter Nirmala's age. The marriage is a shock to Nirmala, but she bravely tries to find her way around the house and make the most of it. The widower himself believes that he has not lost his manhood in old age. His son Jugal, who is studying in college, soon starts flirting with his young stepmother.

Marriage doesn't work. Only the young daughter Sushila, who lives in the house, is Nirmala's age and is herself a widow, keeps Nirmala happy. Slowly Kakasaheb realizes the injustice of his marriage with and for Nirmala and commits suicide. So he leaves the girl he once married against her will and lets her go her own way.

music

Song title Singer
In the world's broad field of battle Shanta Apte
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani Shanta Apte

Munshi Aziz wrote the lyrics to the music of Keshavrao Bhole . The text of the English-language song In the world's broad field of battle ... Be not like dumb, driven cattle is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .

background

Poster by Duniya Na Mane

The script for this Prabhat production was written by the author Narayan Hari Apte based on his novel Na Patnari Goshta , published in 1923 . Sheikh Fattelal and Vishnupant Damle were responsible for the set design and the sound . At the same time, a Marathi version of the film called Kunku was made .

Shakuntala Paranjpe , who played Sushila, was known off-screen as a dedicated social activist who campaigned for women's rights. Shanta Aptes' freshness and lightness in her first major leading role established her as the leading singer of the 1930s.

criticism

Despite the emphatically melodramatic traits of the film, Shantaram, who always edited his films himself, managed to create some outstanding visualizations such as the smiling face of the old man in the shards of the smashed mirror and the leitmotif of the ticking clock. Many of these images symbolize the old man's sexual impotence.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://hindi-films-songs.com/duniyanamane.html
  2. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 272
  3. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 272

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