A blind boatman, a vengeful mother-in-law, and 150 minutes of melodramatic chaos.
Tired of his life, a boat man gets hit in the eye by a bullet, blinding him by a young lady. They soon fall in love each other, but this is not liked by the older lady as she wants young to marry another man.
Direction
Shantaram's painterly compositions elevate soap to art.
Acting
Sandhya's blind girl—overwrought yet weirdly hypnotic.
Director
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
V. Shantaram cast his wife Sandhya in nearly all his films—this was their most emotionally brutal collaboration, essentially a weepie about impossible love made by a real couple.
The blinding-by-accident plot was controversial even in 1952; critics called it 'morbid' while audiences made it a hit. Shantaram knew suffering sells.
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