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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sunday Surkhi-Unconventional ندیا کے پار

That is it is not a "surkhi" in its normal sense. The news has been very unpleasant so I decided to try a departure from the "surkhi" path.
"Wuthering Heights" and "Nadiya kay par" (ندیا کے پار ) which is my most fav. movie (1949?)
What is common to these two very different movies?
Here is my report. Now many English (meaning movies or films in English or "Holywood") movies are taken as a whole or in part in some Indian (Urdu/Hindi movies of "Bolywood") Like for example Film "Jadoo" جادو was a Bolywood version of "Loves of Carmen" (Movie starring Rita Hayworth). In addition to the whole movie theme, Rita's dance and song with those hand trippets (I dont know what you call them) creating that critit-like sounds is copied by the Jadoo heroine Nalini Jaiwant نلنی جیونتincluding its tune. And there are other scenes for example I can recall a movie, "Love in the Afternoon" starring Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn in which the last scene when Gary is going away in the train and Audrey is following walking and then running to be picked up by the hero, and in his arms, eventually. Very similar scene you have in the Bolywood film, جب جب پھول کھلے" jab jab phool khilay " starrring Shashi Kapoor when he is leaving the heroine in Bombay and on the train as it moves away on the platform the heroine starts walking and then running begging the hero to take her with him until the platform is about to run out and the hero catches hold of the running heroine into his arms.
Now here, in Wuthering Heights (The only novel of Emily Bronte, sister of more well-known Charlotte Bronte, published in 1847, filmed 1939 and was nominated for best picture of that year) the large house of the hero (Heathcliff-played by Sir Laurence Olivier) recieves a stray traveller in a snow storm and gives him the room reluctantly for overnight stay. He happens to have experience of the ghost of Heathcliff's beloved Kathy. He gets frightened and is then told the story of the, unfortunate love affair of Heathcliff and Kathy.
Nadiya kay par ندیا کے پار, A doctor who does not find a boat to cross the river in a storm and rain; comes into the village of fishermen who let him stay reluctantly in the room of the heroine and hero (Kamini Kaushal and Daleep Kumar کامنی کوشل اور دلیپ کمار ،playing Phulwa پھلوا،اور کںور and Kunwar) and the poor doc gets the freightening experiences of the ghost and then is given the story by the villain. The last scene of Wuthering heights shows hero and heroine 's shadows walking in the snow in "the heights" and in ندیا کے پارNadiya kay Par the shadow of the boat of hero and heroine makes the last scene--the boat in which they drowned in the middle of the flooded river's whirlpool. (May be these coincidental similarities? but...)