Tuesday 7 February 2017

Dickensian Indian cinema

Sone Ki Chidiya (1958)

Directed by Shaheed Latif this film stars Nutan, Talat Mahmood and Balraj Sahni. A young woman who is an orphan is abused by her family till she becomes a film star and then taken advantage of by them.

Taking a very Dickensian style story this tale of a young woman left at the mercy of others is pretty good. At some points the film is a little melodramatic and has twists just for the sake of extending the film a few minutes. Some of the editing is very abrupt and you do not get the sense of the passage of time between some scenes as you should but otherwise this is a decent watch.


3/5

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