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Drama, Music 152 min
IMDb8.1
A debauchee Zamindar greatly neglects his wife. The decadence of the Bengali Zamindar milieu in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a young upward mobile rustic seeking fortune in Calcutta, fascinated by the lonely lady of the house.
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# ***Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam*** Directed by \[Abrar Alvi\], produced & co-directed by \[Guru Dutt\], who also co-stars in it alongside \[Meena Kumari\], \[Rehman\], and \[Waheeda Rehman\]. **Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** ### **Meena's Melancholic Masterpiece** It is rather bizarre that the best-ever adaptation of a book into a cinematic masterpiece in Indian cinema is black and white, but then it is notoriously difficult to achieve that amazing feat. Yet the combined genius of Abrar Alvi and Guru Dutt was able to accomplish that true miracle in this mesmerizingly poetic but pragmatically realistic version of the Bimal Mitra Bengali novel in 1962. This is as much a social documentary on the degenerate debauchery of the Indian aristocracy, set in the era of the British Raj, which works as a socio-political satire on their lackadaisical indifference to Indian colonisation, as well as an enthralling human drama about relationships that will haunt you forever. The three principal characters are the rather wayward, womanising landlord husband \[Rehman\], his enchantingly beautiful, celestially loyal wife, Chhoti Bahu \[Meena Kumari\], and the young man Bhootnath \[Guru Dutt\], a y
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