Shabana and Wasim in Kudrat (1981) Movie |
Kudrat is a Bangladeshi classical film
directed in 1981 by Momtaz Ali. It is a black and white film. The story of the film is
one of the best contributions of the director Momtaz Ali.
Plot
Summary:
Zamindar
Imran Chaudhary is an oppressive ruler. The landlord how oppresses on the
renters in the same way oppresses on his own wife. They have a son named Rahat
Chaudhary. He sometimes looks the oppression on his mother. But he can't do
anything. The Zamindar everyday goes to dancing hall and passes time with a
woman dancer. But his wife is a very religious person all the time she depends
on Allah (God). One day Imran Chaudhary orders his wife to get out from the
Zamindar house. She was then pregnant. She wanted to take Rahat with her. But
Imran Chaudhary didn't permit. She reaches in a villager's house. Zamindar's
Dewan (rent collector) was with her. He knew that Begum Sahiba
had given birth a daughter child (Chadni). The owners of the house even didn't
know about the real introduction of Begum Sahiba. But Zamindar's Dewan gives
Zamindar false information. He told that Begum Sahiba has been died but has
given birth a son and he shows his own son to the Zamindar. Dewan's wife didn't
want it. But Zamindar gives responsibility of the child to his own mother Zohra,
after listening Dewan's words. Dewan was very greedy. He wanted to rule the
Zamindar's estate. He wanted his own son would be next Zamindar.So he selected
the covetous way. Imran Chaudhary names the son's name Farhad Chaudhary. The
boy Rahat Chaudhary can't tolerate his father's oppression. So, one day he
kills his father and becomes Zamindar himself. After many years, they become
more elder. Rahat Chaudhary becomes more cruel and oppressed to his renters. He
loses belief in Allah and religion. One day a dervish
comes to his territory and the sick people come to him to recover their
disease. But Rahat Chaudhary notices it and drives away them from the dervish.
He oppresses on him. Dervish told him that there is a bad ego into him when he
will come out from this he will get man’s love. But Rahat Chaudhary didn’t
believe him rather he oppresses on him. One day Rahat Chaudhary falls into a
river over a bridge to find the dervish.
Shabana,Film : Kudrat (1981) Movie |
A woman named Reshma was coming to her house from a marriage ceremony. She looks a body floating on the river’s bank. She orders her activists to take Rahat’s body to her house. Rahat gets well soon but does not give his real identity. He starts to like Resham.
Reshma and
his father do their hospitality well but Resham does not speak with him because
she is dumb. At last he can know that Imran Chaudhary is responsible for this.
Reshma’s father tells that one day they were coming home then Imran Chaudhary
kills his wife. After a few days Rahat comes back his house. Dilara is Dewan’s daughter.
She likes Rahat and dreams to get him. Sometimes she sings song at the Rahat’s
dancing hall. Farhad Chaudhary loves a village girl Chadni. Sometimes he goes
to meet her. After a few days, Rahat goes back to Reshma’s house. He loves
Reshma and proposes to marry her. He also gives his real identity. He marries
Reshma. At last Rahat takes his new bride to his house. Everyone becomes
astonished to see it but they become more astonished when they can know that
new bride is dumb. Dilara and Dewan start conspiracy with the new bride and
Rahat. But sometimes Farhat solves some little problems. One day Dilara orders
a man to sleep with Reshma at Reshma’s Prayer room. Rahat sees it and orders
Reshma to get out from his house. She goes but doesn’t get place at her
father’s house still. So, she gets out from her father’s house. Farhat knows
that his brother-in-law can’t do any mistakes. Sure there is a conspiracy. He
finds out the main culprit Dilara and Dewan helped her to do conspiracy. But
Rahat forgives her and gets out from house to find out Reshma. He does not find
her to his father-in-law’s house.
At last, he also gets out from home. Rahat
finds out his sister Chadni at a street seeing an ornament. He wore that to his
mother’s neck one day. He can know everything from Chadni’s parents. Dewan
hires gangsters to kill Rahat and his sister Chadni. But he did not know that
Farhad loves Chadni. At the last scene, Dewan and his gangsters fight with
Rahat and Farhad. Dilara is died and his father Dewan too. But Farhad at last
can know that Dewan is his real father and his father killed his mother for
covetousness. Rahat finds out his wife Reshma who gains her speaking power.
Wasim and Shaban in Kudrat (1981) Movie |
Casting:
There are some
noticeable characters who cast in this film.
Shabana as Reshma
Wasim as Rahat Chaudhary
Sucharita as Chadni
Ujjal as Farhad Chaudhary
Golam Mustafa as Dervish
And some other characters
Direction:
Momtaz Ali’s Kudrat is action romantic film about Zaminar or estate system
of past history. Momtaz Ali has directed it when it was black and white age of
Bangladeshi film industry. The main contribution of this film is a good story, music
and background music, cinematography, make up and costume design besides good
editing system.
Filming Location:
Filming location of the film ‘Kudrat’ is in Bangladesh. There are some lacks
of getting more information about this film. So, it is very difficult to
describe more about this film.
A still from the movie Kudrat (1981) |
Cinematography:
There are many types of shots in this film. But we cannot find more
creativity about this film in capturing scenes. It was 1980s then. So, there
was lacks of film studies and cinematography studies. Slowly it removes these
types of lacks. At present, it has overcome many lacks in Bangladesh Film
Industry. Then the capturing system of the film is very good. It inspires the
next film makers to learn more about cinematography.
Music and Sound:
M.A Mojid is the music composer of the film. He does his best in background
sound. Besides, there some romantic and popular songs are used in this film and
the popular singers are Runa Laila, Sabina Yasmin, Uma Islam, Syed Abdul
Hadi, Rabindranath Ray and Probal Chaudhary. The songs have played a
vital role to spread the gooed news of the film to the audiences.
Make up and Costume:
Make up and costume are some other contribution of the film to be a good
film. The costume of the Zamindar and the forces are really inspirable.
Besides, in many scenes the suitable dress and costume are used to attract the
audiences. Makeup has also played an important role in this film.
Wasim and Shabana in Kudrat (1981) Movie |
Editing:
The editing system is really a good work for the film. Editing has made
the story a full film. It has made the storytelling system more powerful. The editor
of the film Mahbub Ur rahman has done his best. Merging system has helped the
shots to make meaningful scenes and the scenes have made meaningful sequences. Thus
the whole film has become meaningful to the audiences.
In short, Kudrat is a classical Bengali language film. It was the film
of 1980s.Then there were lacks of modern technology, skilled man power and
financial facilities. So there are some lacks and mistakes of the film but it
is a good film for the then Bengali audiences. And it has inspired the next
directors to learn.
Kudrat (1981) Bengali Movie Poster |