Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ghulami

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Jul 17, 2012, 5:52:36 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Ghulami'''
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+1985 199’ col/scope Hindi
+d/s J.P. Dutta pc Habib and Faruq Nadiadwala
+dial O.P. Dutta lyr Gulzar c Ishwar Bidri
+m Laxmikant-Pyarelal
+lp Dharmendra, Reena Roy, Smita Patil, Om
+Shivpuri, Mazhar Khan, Bharat Kapoor, Anita
+Raj, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raza Murad,
+Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah
+
+
+Violent ruralist melodrama about Rajput
+oppression in the desert of Rajasthan. The hero
+Ranjit Singh (Dharmendra), son of a Jat farmer,
+leads a popular rebellion against the corrupt
+zamindar (Shivpuri) and his three nephews.
+The hero is aided by a policeman (Kharbanda)
+whose son had been killed by the nephews,
+and an army officer from a Jat regiment
+(Chakraborty) who decides to use his military
+skills to defend his community from the
+rapacious Thakurs. On the side of the zamindar
+is his son-in-law, the police officer Sultan Singh
+(Shah). However, the cop’s wife Sumitra (Patil)
+is sympathetic to Ranjit Singh’s cause. The Jats’
+objective is to capture and burn the account
+ledgers of the moneylending thakur
+community to free themselves from bonded
+labour. They eventually succeed though the
+hero dies, leaving his wife Moran (Reena Roy)
+and infant son to continue the struggle.
+Rajasthan’s arid desert landscape, its vultures
+and shots of the famous folk fair at Pushkar (a
+major tourist attraction) give the film both an
+exotic and a primitivist atmosphere. However,
+it went beyond poetic metaphor in several
+inflammatory scenes addressing the region’s
+charged communal situation. The scene where
+the hero’s mother rushes into the villain’s
+house to save her son without taking off her
+slippers, and is then humiliated by being forced
+to put the slippers on her head and walk out,
+led to riots in several small cities in Rajasthan.
+
+[[Film]]