AMAR BHUVAN

Director:

Mrinal Sen was an Indian filmmaker. Sen directed films primarily in Bengali and Hindi. He pioneered the New Wave cinema in India. Sen. was an ardent Marxist. His earlier films are characterized by their left-leaning, often Marxist approaches to Indian society. Sen won the National Film Awards 18 times. The films that he made next were essentially political, and earned him the reputation as a Marxist artist. The film fetched Mrinal Sen the Best Director and Nandita Das the best actress award at the Cairo Film Festival.

Log Line:

The film revolved around a triangle Meher, Noor and Sakina. Noor marries Sakina, but soon separates from her. He leaves for the Gulf and returns with a lot of money and a wife after a few years. And found his long lost feeling for Sakina returning

Conflicts:

Impossible Goal:

Noor and Sakina encounter in her house gives us many hopes about this well to do pair. Sakina’s nervousness and shaking hands are enough to portray her feelings for Noor. Just a random moment romanticized by amazing performance. When Sakina offer Noor some water and that slips right away from her hand, making her pallu fall and revealing her beautiful face and silky hair. We see Noor looking at Sakina with eyes full of love and adoration. This moment in the film gives us the hope for more romanticized moments. Noor and Sakina divorced with their mutual understanding but now it feels like they are getting their feelings back, which makes the story all too appealing to watch.

But to our luck this is not how it goes as Noor finds a different way to dhow his love by helping Meher on different stages. Promising himself a better life for Sakina and Meher.

Unlikely Hero:

Sakina is a twisted woman with much more twisted outcomes and feelings. Her reaction towards the help that noor is providing is neither thankful nor silence instead It is rebellious. For instance when Meher told her hat Noor has return her nose ring she was not happy about it but considered it a disgrace.

Although she seems happy with Meher but she still has feelings for Noor as for her attachment with that nose ring. And little moments she encounters with Noor spark with love. She is a faulted woman with unknown feeling residing inside her she tries to vanish the outlook of it.

Invincible Villain:

The conditions of village and mehar and sakina’s house are the only villain of this story. Despite of all the love Sakina and Meher share they are unable to fight their financial circumstances. Noor is only able to show his love for Sakina because he own money, money he could share and money he could lend. Money is not everything but it controls your life, your happiness can go vain if you have no money to cherish it.

Character Analysis:

Back-story:

Noor and Sakina were married long before Noor left for gulf. They were married on the call of Noor’s brother, but both tried to sustain the marriage but their heart won’t chose each other so instead of fighting with their feelings they choose to part their ways.

Appearance:

Sakina from nowhere looked like a mother of three children; average height dark complexion defined her beauty all too well. And Noor on the other hand was middle age man with average height and fair complexion.

Beliefs:

Sakina, Meher and Noor are the part of a Muslim religious community, follow their religion all too well and not only that but they respect other religion too. There is a scene in a movie where a Hindu man enters the frame and all the children and Noor too bent down to touch his feet as a gesture of love and respect.

Secrets And Fears:

Nose ring of Sakina is itself a secret that she has told no one and fears for the revelation of that secret. There is a moment in the movie when Noor comes to Meher house and Sakina encounter him they have their moment and just after Noor leaves Sakina is seen opening a box and getting nose ring out of it. It clearly shoes her attachment with not only that nose ring but with Noor too.

Act No 1:

Noor encounter with Sakina at her house seems like an Act 1 to me. Noor eyes are flowing with thousands of emotions that shout and confess his feelings for Sakina. From this moment the character is setting its want as for Noor it is the love for Sakina but a different way to show case it, his helping hand towards Meher promised Sakina a better life.

Act No 2:

When Meher takes the nose ring to Noor to pawn it without knowing the fact that the actual owner of this nose ring is Noor. Noor gladly agrees to pawn it and give Meher one thousand rupee which is too much for that nose ring. This scene shows the love that Noor hold within himself for Sakina and Meher. And the next thing Noor do is to return the nose ring to Sakina without asking for the return of money.