'Nishant'-end of darkness was a movie made by Shyam Benegal in 70’s. 'Nishant' is a story about the exploitation of women and oppression of landlords, written by Vijay Tendulkar and the film stars Naseeruddhin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smitha Patil, Amrish Puri and Girish karnad. I can say, undoubtedly, they belong to best bunch of actors of last millennium.
The story is about the incidents happened at a village in Andhra Pradesh during 40s. Naseeruddhin Shah is youngest brother of brutal, powerful landlord of village, Amrish Puri. Smitha Patil is wife of Naseeruddhin Shah, who keeps her husband away from his brothers, who actively indulge in alcohol and women (he himself is not inclined to all these habits). Girish Karnad is a school master, who gets transferred to this village, comes with his wife Shabana Azmi and only son. Naseer gets attracted to Shabana at the very first sight and keep thinking abt her all the time. One day his brothers observe the difference in Naseer and make him savor the alcohol and in that trance he reveals them his fascination for Shabana. At the same night, somebody knocks on the door of Girish, while they are having the dinner and Shabana opens the door to answer and to her surprise, Naseer’s brothers grab her and take her forcibly to their mansion. Girish tries to get har wife back in all the possible ways; he approaches the landlord, police, lawyers and collector, and what not!! All these efforts go in vain as no villager is ready to testify in front of court. At the end, with the help of the priest, Girish mobilizes the villagers and they successfully end the oppression of landlord by killing all the brothers. The ironic twist in the end was they kill both Shabana and Smitha in the spur of moment.
The film mainly depicts the oppression of landlords that had(s) been prevailing in the villages of India. In Girish we can see the plight of a helpless and cowardice middle class citizen of India. He even reconciles with the situation and starts to live as if nothing had happened. But the movie shows even the powerless, feeble and vulnerable people can become stronger and detrimental if they stand together against the atrocious, vicious force of oppression. Shabana’s tryst with Girish at the temple spurs him to mobilize the people and bring the difference in the society. Even though he succeeds in bringing the change, but the force gets cut loose without a substantial leader and unmethodical, disorganized approach. That’s why the end up killing innocent Smitha and Shabana, who were truly victims of the society, were not among culprits.
This was the debut film of Smitha Patil, one of the greatest actresses of bollywood. Shabana did her role impeccably. The photography of the movie is picturesque by Govind Nihalani. Nishant does need a fair bit of thinking to get the point that director wants to address. One need to put his effort to understand thoroughly, otherwise will be in 'Nisha'!!
The story is about the incidents happened at a village in Andhra Pradesh during 40s. Naseeruddhin Shah is youngest brother of brutal, powerful landlord of village, Amrish Puri. Smitha Patil is wife of Naseeruddhin Shah, who keeps her husband away from his brothers, who actively indulge in alcohol and women (he himself is not inclined to all these habits). Girish Karnad is a school master, who gets transferred to this village, comes with his wife Shabana Azmi and only son. Naseer gets attracted to Shabana at the very first sight and keep thinking abt her all the time. One day his brothers observe the difference in Naseer and make him savor the alcohol and in that trance he reveals them his fascination for Shabana. At the same night, somebody knocks on the door of Girish, while they are having the dinner and Shabana opens the door to answer and to her surprise, Naseer’s brothers grab her and take her forcibly to their mansion. Girish tries to get har wife back in all the possible ways; he approaches the landlord, police, lawyers and collector, and what not!! All these efforts go in vain as no villager is ready to testify in front of court. At the end, with the help of the priest, Girish mobilizes the villagers and they successfully end the oppression of landlord by killing all the brothers. The ironic twist in the end was they kill both Shabana and Smitha in the spur of moment.
The film mainly depicts the oppression of landlords that had(s) been prevailing in the villages of India. In Girish we can see the plight of a helpless and cowardice middle class citizen of India. He even reconciles with the situation and starts to live as if nothing had happened. But the movie shows even the powerless, feeble and vulnerable people can become stronger and detrimental if they stand together against the atrocious, vicious force of oppression. Shabana’s tryst with Girish at the temple spurs him to mobilize the people and bring the difference in the society. Even though he succeeds in bringing the change, but the force gets cut loose without a substantial leader and unmethodical, disorganized approach. That’s why the end up killing innocent Smitha and Shabana, who were truly victims of the society, were not among culprits.
This was the debut film of Smitha Patil, one of the greatest actresses of bollywood. Shabana did her role impeccably. The photography of the movie is picturesque by Govind Nihalani. Nishant does need a fair bit of thinking to get the point that director wants to address. One need to put his effort to understand thoroughly, otherwise will be in 'Nisha'!!
2 comments:
For me Nishat is the energetic buddy ..
hey today I went through most of u r blogs.. and felt Iam spending time with you....
Nice time dear
Amrish Puri was indispensable during the 80s and 90s and bollywood producers and directors never thought of making any film without the versatile actor.
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