Musafir (मुसाफिर) 1940

Published on December 12, 2012 in Cinema

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Banner	Ranjit Studios
Director	Chaturbhuj Doshi
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Producer	Chandulal Shah
Orginal music	Gyan Dutt
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Playback Singers	Khursheed

Character	Actor / Actress
Charlie	Noor Mohammad Charlie
	Khurshid Anvar
	Vasanti
	Ishwarlal

The experienced editor Mukherjees 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 Choudhary, who shared a background in radical theatre and wer in Bombay mainly throught Bimal Roys patronage. Many of them worked togeher again on Madhumati (1940). Set in an old suburban house, presumably in Calcutta, the film narrates three tenously related Chekhovian stories about three sets of the houses occupants.s 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 parents so that she may belong to a family once more. The second story has a wayward youngman, Bhanu (K. Kumar), desperate to find a job 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 madam (D.Kumar) who crops up in the previous stories as well. He was in love with Uma (Kiron) who lived with in the house but disappeared just before their wedding day. In the end, the madmans death and the miraculous recovery of Umas paralysed son coincide. The stories invoke a cyclical sequence of marriage, birth, death and rebirth, enchanced by Choudhurys score and some remarkable camerawork.