Director:Guru Dutt
Producer:T.R. Fatechand
Music:S. D. Burman
Main Cast:Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, K.N. Singh, Johnny Walker, Rashid Khan, Purnima, Krishna Kumari, Ram Singh, Raj Matwala
Genre:Social
Banner:Filmarts
Release:1952

Dutts classic follow-up to Baazi (1951) with the same stars. Set in a small Indian enclave still under foreign control (presumably Portugese Goa), Tony (Anand) is an unscrupulous gold smuggler who seduces the local belle Maria (Bali) and makes her his accomplice. Lisa (Purnima), who was Tonys companion until the police got on her track, tries to warn him. In teh end, when Tony is hunted down by the police, Maria stops the shootout and persuades him to go to jail, promising to wait for him. Marias blind brother Carlo (K.N. Singh) and her fiance Simon (R. Singh) are the other important characters in the story. The films most remarkable scenes, apart from its wonderfully suspenseful opening on the waterfront, include a very stylish seduction scne as Tony lures Maria to the beach with his song Yeh raat yeh chandni phir kahan (sungby Hemanta Mukherjee), and she ends up caught, literally, in his net. The rural Goan fishing community is transformed into a kind of frontier town to provide the setting for the morality tale of sex and religion, summarised in a strangley comic scene with masked dancers at a village fete. Dutt uses the sound of waves as a leitmotif and his renowned crane shots (of Pyaasa, 1957; Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) are already in evidence.

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Statutory Declaration: Contents of this Film,Scene,Song which was released, as per available sources now are in the public domain since the term of copyright has expired,under the copyright act 1957.

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