27 Down
27 Down is a 1974 Indian drama film directed by Awtar Krishna Kaul, starring Raakhee and M.K. Raina. The film is based on a Hindi novel Athara Sooraj Ke Paudhe by Ramesh Bakshi about a railways employee who meets a girl on the train. Films music was classical musicians, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Bhubaneshwar Mishra, while the production design was by Bansi Chandragupta.
The film is set onDown, the BombayVaranasi Express, Sanjay M.K. Raina is on a pilgrimage journey to Varanasi Banaras, and remembers his life in flashbacks. Sanjay gives up his dreams to become an artist, in order to support his family he takes up his fathers profession of railways employee. He spends his days as railways ticket checker, till he meets a Life Insurance Corporation employee, Shalini Raakhee, on the suburban train. After a few more meetings, they falls in love, and Sanjay starts seeing life differently, but when his father finds about their relationship, he fixes his marriage with some other girl.The film was shot on location on Mumbai trains, platforms, and at Mumbais Victoria Terminus station, the cinematographer of the film, Apurba Kishore Bir wasyears old, when he got the project, he shot 70 percent of the film using a handheld camera, inspired by The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 war film with an aim to put the camera right in the conflict, he shot with wide lenses rather than zooms. Bir chose to shoot the film in black and white, as he wanted stark contrasts. As it was difficult to control across crowd, most of the films platform scenes were shot in the night, or at side platforms, and extras made it look like a busy time. ........
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