I think it's the best score by 'Ravindra Jain' so far (better than even 'Nadiya Ke Paar' and 'Chitchor'). All the songs except for 'Sun Saiba' and 'Main Hee Main Hoon' are beautiful and meaningful. Acting wise Raza Murad and Saeed Jaffery are brilliant and soul of the film. In one of the scenes Ganga, in a train to Varanasi, is feeding her infant son while men look at each other and smile. Raj Kapoor says a lot through Manilal's black goggles. Manilal is a pimp, a gray character, becomes a blind man to trap Ganga. Characterization is brilliant for example Kunj visits brothels but he loud mouths about it. At one point in time Ganga sleeps in a funeral house and consoles herself saying that dead ones are better than those living. Sica used a bicycle to expose post world war Italy and Raj Kapoor has used a river to expose the double standards of Indian culture. This film always reminds me of Bicycle thief. It talks about the fate of millions of innocent girls sold in India and the medium it uses is mind blowing. I find this film extremely romantic and spiritual. She is sold bought raped and beaten by the time she reaches Calcutta. River Ganga flows almost like sewer water after that and that's what happens to the protagonist. By the time she reaches Varanasi Ganga loses its purity. River Ganga get polluted on its way and the first bank which pollutes river Ganga is Haridwar and so Ganga (Mandakini) tastes her stint with fate in Haridwar.
River Ganga is revered by Indians as god from ancient times. Ganga, traveling from Gangotri to Calcutta, represents river Ganga which starts from Himalayas and through northern plains reaches Calcutta and merges into Bay of Bengal. How long can you tolerate two bad actors that too together? Movie begins when Ganga leaves Himalayas for Calcutta. First half of the film is perfect for toilet breaks, cigarette, pop corn and probably grocery. The whole journey of Ganga from Gangotri to Calcutta depicts the poor condition of women in the Indian society. Naren sends Kunj, his maternal uncle and his well wisher, to fetch Ganga but Ganga, now pregnant, has already left alone from Himalayas to Calcutta. Naren comes back home and finds that his father has fixed his marriage with an ambitious politician Bhagwat Chowdhary's daughter. Naren decides to go home and gain his family's confidence before he can take Ganga home. He goes to Himalayas on vacations and meets Ganga a local Himalayan girl. Naren is a simple man and son of an influential businessman in Calcutta.
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