Or: The Effects of Alcohol Part II
and his home, to a nautch-girl.
which is not necessarily a bad thing.
and cat-fighting!
As much as I wanted to like this film (Pran in a red wig! Kind, handsome Rehman!) I just couldn’t. It is such a downer!
Life is excessively hard for poor Shankar (Dilip Kumar), what with his status in the household being lower than an insect’s and all. His adoptive brother Ramesh (Pran) hates him for no good reason and abuses him terribly. Shankar tolerates the abuse for the sake of Rupa, Ramesh’s sister (Waheeda Rehman). He loves her and she loves him, but she doesn’t have the courage to stand up to her brother. Ramesh is drunk all the time, and we know what drunkards are like.
One day Ramesh flogs Shankar and throws him into the sea, leaving him for dead. Shankar is rescued by fishermen, and things brighten up a bit when he discovers during his travels that he is the long-lost heir to a kingdom. But on his return home to marry Rupa, he discovers that Ramesh is still relentlessly hateful even though he has lost all his wealth; and Rupa is now engaged to Satish (Rehman), who doesn’t seem to mind her endless sniveling and self-pity.
Much gnashing of teeth and vengeful plotting ensues, ensnaring innocent people too. Everybody suffers, no one more than this viewer.
Thank goodness for Tun Tun and Johnny Walker! They play a married couple who have had nine children in five years.
Before the film is over, Tun Tun is giving birth to four more, while her husband argues with the hospital Matron…who looks strangely familiar.
The special effects at the beginning seemed familiar, too.
I think I hear Mr. Bill squealing in terror.
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