Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam Hindi The Master, The Wife and the Slave is a 1962 Indian Hindi film produced by Guru Dutt and directed by Abrar Alvi. It is based on a Bengali novel, Shaheb Bibi Golam by Bimal Mitra, and is a look into the tragic fall of the havelidom and feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot simultaneously exploring a platonic friendship between a beautiful, lonely wife Bibi of an aristocrat Sahib and a careerdriven lowincome parttime servant Ghulam. The films music is by Hemant Kumar and lyrics were by Shakeel Badayuni. The film is also noted for its brilliant cinematography by V. K. Murthy. The film stars Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rehman, Waheeda Rehman and Nazir Hussain.
The film opens at the ruins of an old haveli in Calcutta, where a group of labourers are busy pulling down what remains. When the workers break off for lunch, the overseer Guru Dutt wanders through the haveli. As he sits at a place there begins a flashback to the end of the 19th century.The lowerclass and educated Bhoothnath arrives in colonial Calcutta looking for work. He lives in the grand haveli of the Choudhurys, a family of zamindars with his BrotherinLaw. He works at the Mohini Sindoor factory run by Subinay Babu, a dedicated member of the Brahmo Samaj. Subinay Babus daughter Jaba Waheeda Rehman is amused by Bhoothnath whom she considers an unsophisticated rustic. Bhoothnath becomes fascinated with the goingson in the haveli and every night observes the decadent lifestyle of the Choudhury brothers. ........
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