The weekly film screening on Sunday at Bharat Bhavan, have become a plan-out event for the Bhopalites. As it is getting satisfactory response, A Japanese movie ‘The Quiet Duel’ was screened here on Sunday.
Directed by noted film director of Japan Akira Kurosawa, the movie was released in the year 1949. It is like a treat for the cine-goers to watch the movies of great international directors.
The movie stars Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, and Kenjiro Uemura having the running time of 95 minutes. The story revolves around a surgeon who gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during the operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Toshiro Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient (Kenjiro Uemura) due to a cut while operating the patient. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée (Miki Sanjo) without explanation.
The movie received a good response and the Bhopalites enjoyed watching it. Further, Prem Shankar Shukla said, “Akira Kurosawa is a big name in itself and people usually come whenever his movies are screened at Bharat Bhavan.” More than 60 people were present there. The film screenings at Bharat Bhavan is organised by Chhavi series of classical cinema which is one of the wings of Bharat Bhavan.