Salma (1985)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Salma |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Urdu |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 149 minutes |
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| Director | Ramanand Sagar |
| script |
Gulshan Nanda Tabish Sultanpuri |
| production | Ramanand Sagar |
| music | Bappi Lahri |
| camera | K. Dattaram Vaikunth |
| cut | Subhash Sehgal |
| occupation | |
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Salma is a film drama from the Indian director Ramanand Sagar from 1985, enriched with singing and dancing .
action
Nawabzada Aslam is the only son of a wealthy family in Lucknow in northeast India. He lives in the house of his father, Nawab Bakar Ali, a successful, conservative businessman. His parents plan for him to marry Mumtaz, a cousin of Aslam who has lived abroad for a long time and has recently returned to Lucknow. Aslam falls in love with Salma Banarasi, a singer and dancer who is rejected by his parents as not befitting. When Aslam insists on his love for Salma, his father Bakar shoots him in a fit of anger and injures him badly. While Aslam is recovering from an emergency operation in the hospital, his mother visits Salma and successfully persuades her that holding on to the relationship would lead to long-term disaster for both Aslam and his entire family. Salma therefore decides to forego her lover and thus her own happiness in order to enable him to live a carefree life. To dissuade Aslan from their love, she plays him an affair with his best friend Iqbal. The angry Aslam breaks up with Salma and agrees to marry Mumtaz. To humiliate Salma, he hires her to dance and sing with Mumtaz at the wedding. Salma agrees. Shortly before the wedding she suffers poisoning which, according to the doctor she consulted, would lead to death if she sang again; to see Aslam one last time, she still decides to go on with her planned appearance. Immediately before the wedding, Aslam confronts Iqbal about the alleged affair and learns that it was only staged, that Salma still loves him and that she may never sing again. He rushes to the wedding ceremony that has started, but is too late: Salma has already started her wedding dance and singing. At the end of her song she sinks dead to the ground; Aslam then dies of grief and sinks down dead on Salma's corpse.
History of origin
The model for director Sagar was the Pakistani drama Anjuman from 1970. Salma was Sagar's last feature film, after which he only shot for television and worked as a producer. Composer Bappi Lahiri was responsible for the music of other Bollywood classics of the 1980s such as Disco Dancer , and in 1985 he won the Filmfare Award in the "Best Music Director" category for the film Sharaabi . One of the songs on Salma's soundtrack , Zindagi Tere Dar Pe Fanaa , was sung by leading actress Salma Agha .
criticism
Gregory David Booth, professor of musicology at the University of Auckland , sees the role of Salma as a reference to the tawaif , north Indian courtesans in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose role was comparable to that of Japanese geishas .
Web links
- Salma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 9: Making a Woman from a Tawaif: Courtesans as Heroes in Hindi Cinema. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .