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story�screeiiplay �i^ direction ��� fvhyjun behegai ), � j ,;� -: ,v:*y i( \4 To be l?orn of lowjca^te in a ca&te-. ridden society is '��]* curse. And jto be continued to jbej treated .like 'one-is-'worse- than tfiatrdebiJKat-mg. The people ijiiried under centuries of hun^ilidtiort;/ have no wilt of their; own; r^o stamini to fightv With thein jto jbe tfeatetj-as drawers of \vatet and hewer^ of vvvood, becomes a viay ;of life. Constitutionally j vv�i. may tyave abolished .caste; jbegar (free labour) and exploitation: of!the lowly but in practical life tlytfse curses of feudal; times, are jstill parctised and.preathed. : ankur is^ pp>y�rful{indictment of such practices sjtillj.prevalertt in many parts bfj Jmlia, Shjyam Senegal has precisdly and-brilliantly stated the prpblj&m but he; has not tried to imd ja;' cat egopcal answer to it.' Whatever social protes t he Ipid ce^sj in it he Usj firiame of the film is�ieejblej. If rte means to suggest thattfte sjeed of protest (and revolt) agiinst}Tnanrs bajr/ba-rity.-to man has bfren;sown thep he must go further, ^nurture I the seeduig a.nd giv�J us a foHowup to ahkcur. The ankur j sequel could start from its yeTqy last seer�e � the y oung boy thrciwing a �t.orje, at the landlord's jwijridlowpane to express- hts disgust� at j his brutality. It ';O>u!ldi have better strucuired tensiion than awkuir �'.'itself.' In the coinniercial set "up, we havci^ had sprqe * *enter|rain-ing** films on ihp theme but> tKat !;,hould not be anvp^cuse tof-let the seddling wither! away, aiikur'$> xtory. afier all. ij5; not a n.oveljone. Lakshmi. a ycting maidrseTvant working on a fafm4 js devoted to
landlord'^ ypurjg son, Surira, takes farm. In|true feu he lords! it over
stops al| the ficilities and concessions evfcn )f hi& faih^r^s mistres^j Surya's ^rfe ha^ no(tyet joined bjm. He fjrtds 4iJlage life
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college-going charge of the, ialistic fashion the 'villagers,
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CALCUTTA. Dec.23 (UNI)Anand Amritraj Kfted the Men's singles title of the National Lawn Tennis Championships beating his younger brother Vijay in straight sets 6-4, 6-4, 8-6 in the final here. The Amritraj brothers won.the men's doubles title beating J-Mukherjea and P.Lall. The -junior boys singles title, went, to Shankar Kfishnan Who was fully extended by his cousin -Ramesh Krisfrnan (son of Ramanathan Krishnan) before winning 6-4, 5-7. 6-4.
CALCUTTA,Z)ec.2<r India, ;two down in the ifive match cricket series against the West Indies have made thre changes for' the Test starting.here tomorrow,
Pataudi dind Gavaskar who missed the Delhi Test through injury will; return to * the teanr . Abid Ali, Patel and Kantikar willr be dropped. ! ^
Surya a�j[k$ Laksh abortion jShe rcfu
ing LakJfnmt nnc s her nusnanu Kishtiyaj sleeping by her side.
Tears of [joy \Vell return ajnd fear . react Jo jhcr preg
scandal mi to have an ies. One morn-s her husband
jp at Kjshtiya's how he will Her fear
is howevjcr unfounded, Kishtiya is happy atj the prospects of his wife bearing jhirn a child. Ho goe^ to Surya fqr. a job. Guilt-conscious
Surya Ithinks pc >s to be, humiliated and or beaten up by Kishtiya|. IReflcdtvcly ^he whips Ki.shtiyU iVrercipessly in (the
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.protest!. LakshJtii. a passive ' villagjes is lived in slow
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\\itnessl cursc-s anythinjg. The JKishtiy;! is left ,
metaphor. Shaban^t Azrni plays La'kshimi .with sensitivity � and soberness: Only she is too fair and (heavily made-up for ,a potters wife and maid jservanfc when j all the worrten arotind her are difk-complexroned and common (featured. Almost jail the other .characters are real |mmans caught up in the fatalistic pressures of a feudal an^ social we. ftit the two which stmd out most ! prominently are Sadhu Meher as the deaf-an<i-dlumb
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husband and Agha Moriammcd Hussein as the village patel; Anant Nag sounds too harsh as the iandlor&'s son and he constantly overplays. At places the film is top slow,
slower than its slow momentum. know thaft
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vi!J?L(2er4 disperse A bov, who >s,Surya with his pasttime of kite-ftyifigv picks up a stone and hurls itSat the .v indow pane. A seedling revolt las been ?>o>vn. ' Shyarn Bencg il's dlircction rifi difnifica, the na Tattor^ cool ,and . cleary. af time sAb'tle .points are ^ ^dc by a deft tpuch or a visual
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the ftlm is shot entirely in an Andhra vijtege, - bring out the la-ngurousness and timelfessness of village life.
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