Jaal (1952)

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Movie
Original title Yeah
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1952
length 165 minutes
Rod
Director Guru bun
script Guru bun
production TR Fatechand
music Sachin Dev Burman
camera VK Murthy
occupation

Jaal ( Hindi : जाल , jāl ; translated: The Net ) is a Hindi film by Guru Dutt from 1952.

action

The peaceful life of the Christian fishing people in Goa , a small Indian enclave under foreign rule, is disrupted with the arrival of the gold smuggler Tony. The fisher woman Maria succumbs to the charm of the smuggler against the will of her blind brother Carlo, the friend Simon and Tony's accomplice Lisa.

Even when Maria believes Tony's love is real, he plans to sell it to the Arabs. After the police catch him, Tony abandons Maria in the sea. Ultimately, she convinces Tony that no one is thoroughly evil. Tony is handed over to the police, knowing that Maria will be waiting for his return.

music

song Singer
Yeh Raat Yeh Chaandni Phir Kahaan Hemant Kumar
Pighla Hai Sona Lata Mangeshkar
De Bhi Chike Hum Kishore Kumar , Geeta Dutt
So Samajkar Dil Ko Lagana Geeta Dutt
Chaandni Raaten Pyar Ki Baaten Lata Mangeshkar , Hemant Kumar
Kaisi Yeh Jaagi Agan Lata Mangeshkar , choir
Chori Chori Meri Gali Lata Mangeshkar , choir
Zor Lagake Haiya Geeta Dutt , choir

The lyrics to the music of Sachin Dev Burman wrote Sahir Ludhianvi .

background

Dutt uses the sound of waves as a leitmotif and his well-known crane recordings , which he used later in Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool , can already be seen here.

criticism

Guru Dutt's successor to Baazi once again relied on the traction of the main actors Dev Anand and Geeta Bali . One of the most notable scenes in the film is a very stylish seduction scene in which Tony lures Maria to the beach with his song Yeh raat yeh chandni phir kahan and she literally gets caught in his web. The Goan fishing village serves as the backdrop for a moral story about sex and religion, which culminates in a strangely comical scene with masked dancers at a village festival.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 326
  2. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 326

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