Bandini

I had heard a lot about the movie and its director Bimal Da. Having less work pressure this weekend, I got a DVD and watched it finally. To my surprise I found it up to no good. All those positive remarks made to me until then appeared having no value. Also from the direction point of view it was average, just average. More so because of having so much expectation built up, Bimal Roy now looked inferior to a regular B grade movie director.
But this was only until I saw the last 10 minutes of the movie. Until then I had almost decided to shut off the movie at one point in time. In the last sequence Nootan meets Ashok Kumar and gets to know about why he betrayed her and married the other woman. Ashok kumar is going to leave via a ship whereas Nootan’s train has also arrived. She is going through a mental tug of war whether to leave him or go back. In the background the famous song “o re maajhi…mere saajan hai us paar” plays. This all has been done with so much perfection; I bet that you can’t miss the magic Bimal Roy is trying to create. All well that ends well. Nootan goes back to Ashok Kumar and movie ends.

And after that there is one more member in Bimal Roy fan club now.