Kunku

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Movie
Original title Kunku
Country of production India
original language Marathi
Publishing year 1937
length 162 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

Kunku is a marathic film by V. Shantaram from 1937. It deals with the widespread failure to take into account the wishes of women when getting married .

action

Neera, 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 Neera's age. The marriage is a shock to Neera, 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 college son, Pandit, soon starts flirting with his young stepmother.

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

music

The songs are sung by the main actress Shanta Apte herself. The lyrics to the music of Keshavrao Bhole were written by Shantaram Athavale . 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

The title of the film refers to the red dot on the forehead of married women. 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 Hindi version of the film was also made, entitled Duniya Na Mane .

Shakuntala Paranjpe , who played the Chitra, was known outside the screen as a committed 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. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 272
  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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