Musafir (1957)

 ●  Hindi ● 2 hrs 29 mins

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The experienced editor Mukherjee’s directorial debut constituted an important attempt to carve out a viable independent production sector in the Hindi cinema at the time. The film was made by a loose collective of mainly Bengali film people, including Ghatak and composer Choudhury who shared a background in radical theatre and were in Bombay mainly through Bimal Roy’s patronage. Many of them worked together again on Madhumati (1958). Set in an old suburban house, presumably in Calcutta, the film narrates three tenuously related Chekhovian stories about three sets of the house’s occupants. The first has the Bengali star S. Sen as an orphaned young woman, Shakuntala, who desperately wants her husband Ajay (Shekhar) to make up with his estranged parents so that she may belong to a family once more. The second story has a wayward young man, Bhanu (K. Kumar), desperate to find a job to support his aged father (Hussain) and his widowed sister-in-law (N. Roy). The third and longest story focuses on the shadowy figure of a neighbourhood ‘madman’ (D. Kumar) who crops up in the previous stories as well. He was in love with Uma (Kiron) who lived in the house but disappeared just before their wedding day. In the end, the madman’s death and the miraculous recovery of Uma’s paralysed son coincide. The stories invoke a cyclical sequence of marriage, birth, death and rebirth, enhanced by Choudhury’s score and some remarkable camerawork.

Cast: Dilip Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Suchitra Sen

Crew: Hrishikesh Mukherjee (Director), Kamal Bose (Director of Photography), Salil Choudhury (Music Director)

Genres: Drama

Release Dates: 01 Jan 1957 (India)

Hindi Name: मुसाफिर

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as Raja
as Bhanu
as Shakuntala Verma
as Nilambar Sharma
as Raja
as Mrs Nilambar Sharma
as Street Dancer
as Munni
as Madhav
as Bhanus Sister-In-Law
as Uma

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Film Type:
Feature
Language:
Hindi
Colour Info:
Black & White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.39:1 (Scope)
Stereoscopy:
No