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Railway Platform - 1950 [DVD] |
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UnRated |
| Year : |
1950 |
| Playtime : |
127 Minutes |
| Lang : |
Hindi |
| Genre : |
Drama |
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The train in which Indira made her getaway turned out to be a vehicle of fate: a vehicle that handed her smack in the midst of the cross currents of life. The train haulted at a small wayside station…. And did not proceed. The track ahead, it was learnt had been washed away by the floods, and the train would not get on its way for another twenty four hours at least. There was the poet, blithely singing away: the lower middle class youth, Ram accompanied by his mother and his sister, the washer man and his wife, there was also a miserly merchant with his child wife, and there were many others.
The miserly merchant, when he learned that there was a small provision shop about two furlongs away the only provision shop there about, lost no time in appropriating the shop and the adjoining well by paying Rs 140/- where after he settled down to selling available things at a premium, even selling water! He would not let Naina, the shop owner’s daughter give even a glass of water from her own cottage to Ram! The casual accquaitance ripened into mutual attraction, though Naina felt it more actually than did Ram. In this brief encounter with the princess on the other hand, Ram expressed his strong feelings about the snobbery of the so called ‘high-born’ some of the kinks in his character were later smoothened out by the Poet who, even though he had lost both his arms, had no grouse against the world. “Your trouble”said the poet to Ram is that two and two for you make four. Add them to make twenty two and you will enjoy life.
The rapping for some’Puris’ bought by Ram’s sister, the rapping tone from a newspaper the identity of the princess:and Ram, who had been casting about in his mind for ways of finding some some of money for the marriage of his sister, sent a telegram off to the princess’ father in the hope of receiving the reward of Rs 10,000 that had been announced.
There after, it transpired, the princess and he were suddenly attracted towards each other… so magnetically attracted that they decided to get married immediately, the maharaja arrived just when the marriage was to be solomnised…and then he brought of the question wasn’t Ram because he coveted her wealth? The answer to his question was of great importance to the princess as well as Naina who had patiently, stoically, stood by, while her hopes were being snatched away. What did finally transpire on that small wayside station while the train was stationary, stranded?
“Railway Platform” presents a panaroma of life, a new panaroma that is unusual, almost unique. |
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