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Two brothers, Ram and Ratan, work in the same mill. However, things get complicated between them when Ram tries to support the mill owner Sewakram who defrauds all the employees.
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Widowed Mrs. Lal lives with her two sons, Ram and
Ratan; an unmarried daughter, Sheela; Ram's wife, Parvati and her
children. While Ram is employed in a mill, Ratan is studying engineering
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Widowed Mrs. Lal lives with her two sons, Ram
and Ratan; an unmarried daughter, Sheela; Ram's wife, Parvati and her
children. While Ram is employed in a mill, Ratan is studying engineering
in Calcutta. When Ratan returns, he is offered a job at the same mill,
falls in love with a Typist named Manju, much to chagrin of Malti, the
daughter of the mill-owner, Sewakram. When Ratan finds out that Sewakram
has been defrauding the employees, he decides to form a union, a move
that is opposed by Ram, who is very devoted and loyal to Sewakram.
Things go from bad to worse when the workers decide to go on strike on
one hand, while Ram decides to thrown Ratan out of the house. Word gets
around that Ratan is against Sewakram, and soon he gets blacklisted,
Sheela who was supposed to marry Kundan, the son of Sitaram, has her
marriage canceled, and the family lose their prestige and credit in the
community. The question remains, will the workers continue to be at the
mercy of Sewakram, and will the ...
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I thought it to be a blast since it had three
of the most prominent faces of Indian silver screen together; Motilal ,
Dilip Kumar and Raj Kumar. But I was disappointed. Though, it is
reasonably a good movie. It is all about Maalik-Mazdoor relations,
nothing new. Everyone has played their part quite well. Lyrics by
Pt.Pradeep is good with forgettable music by C.Ramchandra.
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I must get off the Gemini Studio fixation but with May Day coming about I thought this is a good topic to write on.
SS Vasan was a staunch Congressman and detested the communists. As is
well known, it is the latter, with their Union rules that finally
brought the cosy studio system to its knees. If you read Asokamitran’s
My Years with the Boss, there is a hilarious episode of how the
socialist poet Stephen Spender came to address the employees of Gemini.
But that is another story.
When I was young (and fat), I sat through a screening of Paigham (1959) on
Doordarshan. It stars Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala in the main roles,
with B Saroja Devi in the supporting cast. I saw it one Sunday evening
in Calcutta, in a neighbour’s flat. Those days were like that – you
could walk into anybody’s house, and join them in watching TV. It was a
good film, though never rising to the level of extraordinary. Dilip
Kumar was really the best of the lot. Vyjayanthimala was her usual
overacting self – all Bharata Natyam expressions. Raaj Kumar was good as
the elder brother and Moti Lal was fabulous as usual as the mill owner.
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According to Dilip Kumar’s delightful biography, it was during the
shooting of this movie that Jawaharlal Nehru made a visit to Gemini.
Grandmother Yadugiri Devi went on and on about how Panditji was such a
fan of Pappa (Vyjayanthimala)’s dance. Vasan therefore got her to stand
right upfront when Nehru came. Imagine Patti and Pappa’s discomfiture
when the PM saw Dilip Kumar, went up and put his hand around his
shoulder with a cheery “Hello Yousuf!” ignoring poor Pappa! Patti kept
silent about Pappa thereafter.If at all someone would have enjoyed this
episode it must have been Vasundhara Devi,Vyjayanthi’s mother, who was
estranged from daughter and mother-in-law. By then the heroine of
Gemini’s great hit Mangamma Sabatham had
come down in life and had a small role in Paigham, as Vyjayanthi’s
mother. Only Vasan could have got such impossible things done.
It was only when I grew older and read all about the studio system
and Vasan and Asokamitran, etc that I came to realise that as a film it
is all about class conflict. Vasan must have been at the receiving end
of so many Union pressures and yet, keeping the audience in mind, he
made a leftist film. C Ramchandra scored the music, which sadly was not
great. Legend has it that Vasan interfered quite a bit and that could
explain why the songs were not up to the usual Chitalkar mark.
A year later, Paigham was made remade in Tamil, with Sivaji Ganesan
overacting to the hilt in place of Dilip Kumar. Getting him was a coup
of sorts for Vasan and he never got along, Sivaji having never forgiven
the former for a rejection in his initial days. The film had an inspired
title – Irumbu Thirai
(Iron Curtain), thanks to an office boy who was rewarded for it by
Vasan. Those were after all the days of the Cold War and Churchill’s
phrase was still being used. Many of the Hindi film’s cast reprised
their roles for the Tamil movie, and that included Vyjayanthi and
Vasundhara. The music was by SV Venkataraman and a host of lyricists
worked on the songs. One piece alone stands out – Enna Seidalum, written
and set to music by Papanasam Sivan. Sung in playback by (Radha)
Jayalakshmi, it features Vasundhara Devi. Vasan had created a song for
his old friend, something that she did not have in the Hindi version. It
did not do anything dramatic to her career but it did give her a grand
send off. The woman who had sung her own songs in Mangamma Sabatham, had
to rely on playback for this movie. My song this week is Enna
Seidhalum. Enjoy!
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