Gunga Jumna - The fight of the brothers

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Movie
German title Ganga Jumna - The fight of the brothers
Original title Gunga Jumna (Ganga Jamuna)
Country of production India
original language Hindi - Bhojpuri
Publishing year 1961
length 178 minutes
Rod
Director Nitin Bose
script Dilip Kumar , Wajahat Mirza
production Dilip Kumar
music Naushad
camera V. Babasaheb
cut The Dhaimade , Hrishikesh Mukherjee
occupation

Gunga Jumna is a very successful 1961 Hindi film directed by Nitin Bose .

action

The widow Govindi lives with her sons Gunga and Jumna in a small village called Haripur. One day Govindi is accused of stealing jewels from the Zamindar (lesser princess) and imprisoned. Due to the great emotional strain, she dies in prison. Now Gunga and Jumna are on their own. The older of the two, Gunga, becomes the breadwinner and works in the fields to enable his brother Jumna to study.

While Jumna is interested in Kamla, the Zaminder's daughter, Gunga falls in love with the pretty laundress Dhanno. When Hariram, the Zamindar's stepbrother, tries to attack Dhanno, she is saved by Gunga. This makes Hariram so angry that he accuses Gunga of stealing grain. Gunga was sent to prison for nine months.

Jumna, who has moved to the city, now has to give up his studies and becomes a beggar. A policeman has mercy on the honest man and makes him a policeman.

When Gunga is at large again, he learns that his studies have dropped out and becomes an outlaw. He marches to a haveli (private residential building) and forcibly brings money (for Jumna) and a weapon into his possession. Gunga is now being followed by the villagers as the gun went off, albeit unintentionally.

Gunga becomes the leader of a gang who also joins Dhanno and marries her lover. In the meantime, Jumna returns as a policeman. Gunga, caught in his loyalty, is ready to surrender, but Dhanno cannot withstand another separation. Jumna dutifully shoots his brother, and Dhanno is also killed.

backgrounds

Dilip Kumar wrote, produced and starred in this Technicolor film. The film songs come from Naushad and were interpreted by Asha Bhosle , Mohammed Rafi , Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar . Shakeel Badayuni wrote the lyrics . Dialogue and lyrics are written in the Hindi dialect, Bhojpuri , to give the story local authenticity.

The crook drama resembles a mixture of 30s Hollywood gangster film and westerns and established a copied action film scheme, as used in particular by Amitabh Bachchan in Deewaar (1975) or Don (1978).

Ganga Jumna was Dilip Kumar's second best-selling film after Mughal-e-Azam . Although Dilip was already 40 years old at that time, he was very popular with the audience and still occupied a few leading roles. Dilip Kumar and Nasir Khan are brothers in real life too. The director of the film, Nitin Bose , is the cousin of director Satyajit Ray .

Awards

Filmfare Award 1962

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 367

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