To pay tribute to Nitin Bose, a renowned director of Indian cinema, Bharat Bhavan organised a film fest ‘Ekagra’ under its Chhavi series of classical cinema. The fest began here from Thursday at Abhirang Auditorum, Bharat Bhavan. Ekagra film festival is organised every month to pay a tribute to the pioneers of the Hindi cinema. This time it is being organized for Nitin Bose. Here on Friday, Ashok Kumar starrer Mashal was screened marking the second day of the fest.
The film is directed by Nitin Bose and features Ashok Kumar along with Sumitra Devi, Roma Devi, Jal Mechant in the lead roles.
Samar Nath Ghosh (Ashok Kumar), after passing llB, returns to his village. There he meets Tarangini (Sumitra Devi), his childhood friend. They love each other. But Aaringini’s parents fix her marriage with a landlord. Suman tries a lot to convince them but fails to do so.
Tarangini becomes the second wife of the landlord who has a young son, Jatin. Sarla is a blind girl who works for the landlord and Jatin loves her. Samar starts practicing as an advocate. Somehow Samar comes to know that all the property of landlord Ramratan is actually not his and the actual heir to the property is Sarla.
Now Samar decides to help Sarla and asks Jatin to leave all the property. But Tarangini comes to Samar and reveals that Jatin and Sarla are in love with each other and requests him not to separate them.
The movie had a satisfactory response by the film lovers of the city.