![]() ![]() And it’s easy to see why Premchand’s edifying short – an evergreen inclusion in Hindi and Urdu textbooks for schoolchildren –proved such attractive source material for a high Nehruvian children’s film on the theme of Eid: if there is a single dominant mood replicated across the thousands of films produced by government entities in the decades following India’s independence, it is restraint and sacrifice, the renunciation of private desires and the realignment of “private values and actions with public or common ones” – as Srirupa Roy puts it in her trenchant survey of Indian governmental documentary film making, “ Moving Pictures” (2002). Abbas knows just how to give them the squeeze in this CFSI-produced adaptation of one of Munshi Premchand’s best known and most sarkari-friendly short stories, “ Idgah,” first published in lovely Hindustani in 1933. ![]() Dadi needs a new pair of tongs and legendary director K.A. ![]()
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