A children’s movie Kaya Palat was screened here on Thursday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The movie was screened under the regular series of children’s film screening ‘Ullas’ organised every Thursday at tribal museum.
The movie was directed by Satyen Bose which follows the story of a young scientist Dr Rai. The movie features Ashok Kumar in lead role. Dr. Rai is a brilliant post graduate student. He experiments to conquer time and make humanity ageless. Fellow scientist Kalicharan is jealous of his achievements and tries to sabotage his experiment by mixing the wrong chemical in his portion.
This has surprisingly different result than expected and Dr. Rai turns into a boy of 10. As an adult in a child’s body, Dr. Rai helps the police solve many difficult cases. However he misses his old self and longs to be an adult again.
It is to be noted that Satyen Bose is one of the most successful and experimental filmmakers of India. Satyen Bose had no formal training in cinema but rose to become a prominent director and a master of the cinematic medium. His off-beat Bengali film ‘Parivartan’ in 1949 was a trailblazer and was remade into the immensely popular Hindi film ‘Jagruti’. He worked in many films in his career as writer, director as well as actor.
His film ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’ is an eternal comedy-classic of Indian cinema. ‘Dosti’ in 1964 won him global recognition. His other notable films include ‘Bandi’ (1957), ‘Aasra’ (1966) and ‘Raat Aur Din’ (1967).