Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Himmatwala

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Jul 10, 2012, 4:30:56 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Himmatwala

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+'''Himmatwala'''
+
+
+1983 179’(157’) col Hindi
+d/sc K. Raghavendra Rao pc Padmalaya
+p Krishna dial Kadar Khan lyr Indivar
+c K.S. Prakash m Bappi Lahiri
+lp Jeetendra, Sridevi, Amjad Khan, Waheeda
+Rehman, Satyen Kappoo, Shakti Kapoor,
+Shoma Anand, Asrani
+
+
+Ravi (Jeetendra), a government engineer,
+arrives in his ancestral village to right all the
+wrongs perpetrated on his family by the
+villainous Zamindar Sher Singh Bandookwala
+(Khan) and also - on behalf of the State - to
+introduce welfare measures represented by the
+dam he is to build on Sher Singh’s property.
+Sher Singh, who runs his own ‘parliament’ and
+system of dispensing justice, had earlier forced
+Ravi’s upright father (Kappoo), a school
+teacher, into bonded labour and raped Ravi’s
+mother (Rehman). The villains now force Ravi
+to donate his sister Padma in marriage to the
+evil Shakti (Kapoor), but in the end he reforms
+the villains. The hero bullies Sher Singh’s
+initially arrogant daughter Rekha (Sridevi) into
+supporting him and opposing her father. This
+modernisation melodrama, of the same
+generation as e.g. Bangarada Manushya
+(1972) and some of Bhartirajaa’s films, was
+also a vehicle for the successful entry of South
+Indian production capital into Hindi cinema
+and the best-known of the several Jeetendra-
+Sridevi films usually referred to as ‘South’
+pictures in the Bombay media. This shift
+sometimes created unusual rhetorical structures
+as it sought to transpose local idioms onto a
+‘national’ terrain: e.g the opening sequence in
+which Ravi’s mother tells him of the family’s
+unhappy history is narrated in quickfire, quasidocumentary
+imagery with freeze frames and
+cutaways providing ‘information’
+accompanying the mother’s strident voice-over.
+
+[[Film]]