The children’s film festival had a great start at Bharat Bhavan here on Friday. The film festival is being organised by Chhavi series of classical cinema, Bharat Bhavan.
The fest is organised with a motive to let children enjoy their summer vacations watching entertaining movies. Here on Friday, the film fest opened with two movies Dak Ghar and Tora.
Dak Ghar is a 1965 Bollywood film based on an eponymous play by Rabindranath Tagore. It was directed by Zul Vellani. The film featured Sachin, Mukri, AK Hangal, Sudha and Satyen Kappu in lead roles with cameo appearances by Balraj Sahni and Sharmila Tagore.
Dak Ghar is a 1912 Bengali play by Rabindranath Tagore. WB Yeats produced an English-language version of the play and also wrote a preface to it.
The movie followed the story of a young boy Amal.
Amal is a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local saint and doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the guard tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new post office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fantasizing about visiting the king beyond the hills and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house.
With the running time of 61 minutes, the movie kept the audience glued to their seats.
later, the movie Tora, directed by Jaahu Barua was screened at the hall.