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Reliving the classics of the golden era… |
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When wondering on what to zoom into my DVD player for the weekend,there I found a copy of a movie named “Saudagar” which I hardly knew anything about.All I could recognize were the faces of the ensemble cast starring Big B and Nutan.So i was pretty much sure of a tidy fare in the offing.Eventually it has surpassed all my expectations and here’s why. |
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Setting of the movie….. |
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The movie commences with scenes capturing daily trends and chores of a villager.Mejuben(Nutan) is a widow who leads an unhappy compromising life who has nothing in life to be satisfied with.Meanwhile, Moti(Amitabh) is a trader of the essence earned from Khajur trees and converting to gur.To earn her living,Mejuben works a deal out with Moti and share the revenues earned from the business.Moti is a successful trader but has a meagre share in the money pocketed ,not even for himself.As days move on,Moti is awe-struck by a girl PhoolBanu(Padma Khanna) and both madly fall in love.In his quest for a marriage proposal to her girl’s father,the latter demands 500 bucks as a minimum deposit or a kind of security for his daughter.Moti, who hardly earns a square meal a day is left pondering over on how to arrange for the required sum and win over his lady love.Moti gets cunning this time around and plans to play a prank of a marriage with Mejuban and ensure the whole revenue to himself and when he’s able to make the ends meet,leave her on the name of divorce and marry his love interest.Poor lady falls in the trap and subsequently marries him though she’s a bit surprised of his decision.The rest of the tale focuses on twists and turns of both their lives and what fate had ultimately in store for them. |
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What struck me? |
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This offbeat movie is full of life like situations with each scene striking a chord with the audiences despite little commercial value.In terms of script,it has it’s heart at the right place.Amitabh long before his dream run in commercial cinema shows why is he called a true legend.Without any violence nor power dialogues,he redefines acting with subtle expressions and unmatchable composure.Nutan is at her very best matching scene by scene,expression by expression with Big B and handles a tough role with an admirable ease.Despite lesser screen presence,she steals the heart of the spectator scaling the film to unimaginable heights.Padma Khanna as a materialistic wife is just about passable.The music gels well with the pace of the movie and Sajna Hai Mujhe is my pick of the album. |
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Life has many situations where we’re tested for our true caliber as an individual.The person who bails out himself safely without causing any unduly harm to others emerges as a true winner in life.The characters in the movie too are put into check their real mettle mentally.The basic reason the film works is for its simplicity and connectivity factors.Barely 2 hours,the film stands out effectively portraying the uncertainties of the unprivileged and on the whole has a good stamp of Rajshri Films in it.The director uses his imagination and turbulent realities weaving a gritty tale.Hats off! Make time for this one!This is a salute to a gem of the golden era! |
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Revision as of 13:08, 23 May 2010
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| Directed by | Sudhendu Roy |
| Written by | Narendranath Mitra (story) Sudhendu Roy (screenplay) |
| Produced by | Tarachand Barjatya Subhash Ghai |
| Starring | Nutan Amitabh Bachchan Padma Khanna |
| Cinematography | Dilip Ranjan Mukhopadhyay |
| Music by | Ravindra Jain |
Release date | 1973 (India) |
Running time | 213 min |
Saudagar (Persian and Urdu: ( سوداگر ) translation: Trader) is a 1973 Bollywood film, directed by Sudhendu Roy. It stars Nutan Behl as Mijuben and Amitabh Bachchan as Moti, in the leading roles. It also featured Trilok Kapoor, Padma Khanna as Phoolbanu. Murad, Leela Mishra as (Badi Bhi), Dev Kishan, Jugnu; V. Gopal are also featured in the movie.
This film is not to be confused with another Saudagar (1991 film).
Plot
Moti (Amitabh Bachchan) was a "gur" (unrefined concentrated cane sugar) trader who used to trade the seasonal Gur made of Khajur" (date-nectar). During off season, he saw a girl Phoolbanu, and fell in love with her. Moti approached PhoolBanu's father, who asked for mehar(Dowry) which he did not have. Moti starts saving money for mehar. Mejuben (Nutan) was a widow who was Moti's business associate who used to prepare the Gur for him to sell. Her Gur (and consequently Moti's) was very famous and people always preferred to buy from Moti. Moti gets an idea to save even more for the Meher. He decides to get married to Mejuben so that he does not have to pay her, and hence can save more and sooner. Mejuben, unaware of Moti's ulterior motive, is first surprised by the proposal but latter accepts it. They started living together working very hard to make Gur. At the end of the season, Moti saves enough for the Meher, and divorces Mejuben. This incident shocks Mejuben and people of the community and Mejuben once again becomes alone. Moti meets Phoolbanu's father and ask for the daughter. As per condition her father got the Mehar and he married off her daugheter(Phoolbanu) with Moti. Moti and Phulbanu were happy to start with till the Gur season arrived. The only trade Moti knew was to collect nectar from Date-palms sell Gur made out of them. That was his livelihood, but Phulbanu didn't know to make Gur to save herself! She would make very bad Gur, and his customers would hate the Gur, and his business started plummeting till people stopped buying from his shop. In the mean time, a fish trader(Majhi) asked Mejuben to marry him. He was honest with her to say that he had small children and wanted Mejuben look after them. He always treated her with curtsy. It was almost the end of the Gur season, and Moti had not made good profit that year as Phulbanu was not able to prepare tasty gur. He finally was left with no other option than to request Mejuben to make a few vats of Gur for him to sell. He took two cans of date-nectar and approached Mejuben at her husband's house to request her to make him some Gur to sell. He was followed by Phulbanu who had seen him going somewhere while she was on way to her father's house. At first Mejuben was very angry seeing Moti but on hearing him she understood that he was in a pitiful condition. She also saw Phulbanu who was listening everything from behind a fence. As the eyes of the two ladies met they started weeping and hugged each other. The movie ends with this scene leaving unclear whether Mejuben prepared gur for Moti or not and whether she actually taught Phulbanu how to prepare tasty gur. The second proposition seems plausible as in the end of the film Phulbanu had called Mejuben as 'Apa" which translates to 'sister' which was accepted by Mejuben and it is very possible that the whole issue got resolved and relations between Moti and Mejuben became better though the character changed. [1]
Music
The music for the film was composed by the legendary duo of Ravindra Jain. The trio produced several memorable songs for the movie, notably Sajana hai Mujhe Sajna Ke liye& Kyon Laayo Sainya Paan by Asha Bhosle, Har hansi cheej ka by Kishore Kumar, Door hai kinara by Manna Dey and Tera Mera Saath Rahe by Lata Mangeshakar.
Cast
- Nutan ... Mahjubhi
- Amitabh Bachchan ... Moti
- Trilok Kapoor
- Padma Khanna ... Phoolbanu
- Murad
- Leela Mishra ... Badi Bhi
- Dev Kishan
- Jugnu
- V. Gopal
- C.S. Dubey
References
http://crifilmedu.blogspot.com/2010/04/reliving-classics-of-golden-era.html
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