A drama set amid an earthquake in Bihar. Miss Renee (Khote) looks after the victims while her lover, the businessman Sardar (Mohanned), wants to make money from the disaster.
Acting
Durga Khote's simmering dignity against Mohamed's sleazy charm.
Direction
Bose makes earthquake aftermath feel claustrophobically intimate.
Production
Destruction as character — sets that breathe desperation.
Director
Debaki Bose
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of early Indian cinema's rare disaster films, shot partially on location in Bihar with actual earthquake survivors as extras.
Debaki Bose made this for New Theatres Calcutta, using the disaster genre to smuggle anti-colonial critique past British censors who missed the class warfare allegory.
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