Under the weekly film screenings, a Bollywood movie Usne Kaha Tha was screened here on Sunday at Abhirang Auditorium, Bharat Bhawan. The weekly film screening is being organized by Chhavi wing of classical cinema, Bharat Bhawan.
While talking to The Pioneer, in-charge of the Chhavi series of classical cinema Narendra Rai said, “We are getting a good response by the movie lovers of the city. Each Sunday a huge crowd visits Bharat Bhavan for the weekly film screenings. Keeping in view the love for classical cinema, we will soon organize a film festival under Chhavi series.”
Usne Kaha Tha is a 1960 Bollywood drama film directed by Moni Bhattacharjee starring Sunil Dutt and Nanda in lead roles. It is based on a renowned Hindi short story of the same name written by Chandradhar Sharma Guleri. The story revolves around two characters Nandu and Kamli. Nandu lives in a small town with his widowed mother.
He is friendly with a young girl, Kamli. Kamli's father falls ill and hence her family relocates to a bigger town, Ambala. Years later, Kamli's father passes away and she returns to village. Nandu and Kamli fall in love and want to marry. When Nandu's mother goes to meet Kamli's uncle, she is humiliated. Nandu then decides to join the army, with the hope that her uncle will consider him suitable enough to get Kamli married to him. But when he returns, Kamli is set to marry someone else.
He then goes back to the army to try to forget Kamli. He is surprised to find that his superior officer, Ram Singh, is Kamli's husband. Disappointed with his fate, he does not know what to do. The war starts but before going on war, Kamli takes a promise from him to protect her husband, which he does. And when Ram Singh asks a dying Nandu why he risked his life to save him, his last words are, Usne Kaha Tha. It was a treat for the movie lovers to watch Sunil Dutt and Nanda again on a big screen.