Footpath (1953 film)

Zia Sarhadi

Tired of being poor, Noshu, a newspaperman abandons his scruples and starts to make money as a black marketeer. He gains his fortune but ruins his brothers life causing him to lose his job, his home and his wife whilst simultaneously losing his own selfrespect and that of his former neighbours and his girl. Tormented by his conscience, he writes an expose of the illegal trade but cannot prevent his own brother becoming a victim when an epidemic rages unchecked because criminals have stockpiled all the medicine.Footpath is one of the films featured in Avijit Ghoshs book,Retakes Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed ........

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