Naukar Ki Kameez

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Naukar Ki Kameez
Directed by Mani Kaul
Written by Vinod Kumar Shukla
Based onNaukar Ki Kameez novel
by Vinod Kumar Shukla
StarringPankaj Sudhir Mishra
Anu Joseph
Om Prakash Dwivedi
Music byPushparaj Koshti
CinematographyK.U. Mohanan
Edited by Mani Kaul
Srinivas Patro
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Naukar Ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt) is a 1999 Hindi film based on Vinod Kumar Shukla's novel of the same name. [1] It was directed by Mani Kaul and starred Pankaj Sudhir Mishra, Anu Joseph and Om Prakash Dwivedi. [2]

Hindi Indo-Aryan language spoken in India

Hindi or Modern Standard Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and across the Indian subcontinent. Modern Hindi is the standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and other nearby areas of Northern India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with the English language. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Contrary to the popular belief, Hindi is not the national language of India because no language was given such a status in the Indian constitution.

Vinod Kumar Shukla commonly known as VK Shukla is a modern Hindi writer known for his style that often borders on magic-realism. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi work in 1999. This novel has been made into a stage play by theatre director Mohan Maharishi.

Mani Kaul Indian film director

Mani Kaul was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Starting his career with Uski Roti (1969), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win four of them in all. He won the National Film Award for Best Direction in 1974 for Duvidha and later the National Film Award for his documentary film Siddheshwari in 1989.

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The film was released on 30 September 1999 in Netherlands. [3]

Netherlands Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe

The Netherlands, informally Holland for the original County of Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe with some overseas territories in the Caribbean. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean Sea—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba—it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The official language is Dutch, but a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian. In the northern parts of the country, Low Saxon is also spoken.

Storyline

Santu, a young low level clerk in a small town government office, lives with his wife in a small rented house. He is often the object of ridicule at the office. One day, at the officer's bungalow, a run-away servant's left-behind shirt is found to fit him. He is forced into the position of doing errands around the house before going to work at the office. The film depicts his efforts to resist the efforts of his boss, landlord and landlord's wife to make him into a servant while trying to maintain his social standing.

His wife, on the other hand, within the space of her home is more in control of herself. But even she called upon to do the bidding of the doctor's wife on one or the other pretext. The circle of exploitation perpetuates itself. But at the end, Santu comes home to tell his wife, "From tomorrow I shall not go the Sahib's bungalow. And you, you will not go to the doctor's house." [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Nandini Gupta. "Naukar Ki Kameez". Sawnet. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Naukar Ki Kameez". Now Running. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Naukar Ki Kameez". IMDb . Retrieved 2 July 2015.


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