Saheb Bibi Golam - Hindi Movie Review
In order to adapt Bimal Mitra's acclaimed Bangla novel Saheb Bibi Golam onto the big screen, Guru Dutt made some important adjustments to the tale. In order to attempt and place both in their proper context and to praise their exquisite beauty and amazing characters, Vijay Kumar takes a 360-degree view of both the literary work and the cinematic masterpiece.
Following his discovery of Chhoti Bahu's mortal remains in the ruins of the Bada Mahal, Bhoot Nath emerges from the 1962 release of Guru Dutt's film adaptation of Saheb Bibi Golam to reunite with his waiting bride Jaba. This scenario is unexpected because it completely contradicts Bimal Mitra's idea on the subject. Even though Bhoot Nath is well aware that Jaba and him were married when she was only two months old and he was four, the story reveals that he continues to use the excuse that Atulya Chakraborty, who was his birth name, died a long time ago.
Saheb Bibi Golam, which takes place at the start of the twentieth centuries, is a work of fiction that is unavoidably entrenched in the facts of the period. It is a novelist's dissection of the past of a particular city, in this case Calcutta. And when the master storyteller incorporates his characters, the past comes to life.
Without Mitra's characters, the history would not have been as compelling or as easy to comprehend. At that time, Calcutta was undergoing transformations and experiencing a variety of, frequently conflicting impulses.
In terms of Mitra's characters, the history could not have been more compelling or better understood. At that time, Calcutta was in a state of flux, going through transformations, and experiencing varied and frequently conflicting impulses. The novel thus reflects on every strain and strand of the then social milieu through its characters: the brutal, profligate, licentious, and exploitative Choudhuries of the bada mahal who stand in for the decrepit old order; the woman who has no choice but to serve her swami as well as the empowered woman with a choice who finds expression in Chhoti Bahu and Jaba respectively; the Bramho Samaj movement to overcome the rigidities and intolerance
The common denominator Bhoot Nath connects the different sub-streams that make up the narrative. In reality, the book is Bhoot Nath's flashback narrative.
It will be nearly impossible to turn this work into a 150-minute movie, though, considering its length and sweep. That requires a television series with at least 50 episodes. Thus, the scope of Guru Dutt's movie is constrained to a powerful, women-centric sub-stream that features Chhoti Bahu and Jaba in a situational interaction with an impressionable, barely intelligent Bhoot Nath.
Bhoot Nath is initially depicted as barely surviving in the village of Fatehpur, supported both emotionally and materially by his phuphi (father's sister). The phuphi also passes away, leaving Bhoot Nath with little choice but to travel to Calcutta in search of a job that will enable him to support himself. He resides in Calcutta with Braj Rakhal, the late cousin's husband, in a neighbourhood of Bada Mahal that is home to the Choudhuries, the zamindars.
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