The Thin EdgeRuchir JoshiThe spirits who have power over the delta of Bengal are clearly hostile to the easy preservation and dissemination of serious Bangla cinema from the years gone by. Jago Hua Savera (Day Shall Dawn) is a rare thing, a Pakistani neo-realist film based loosely on Manik Bandopadhyay's Padma Nodir Maajhi. Made in 1958, the film has a script, dialogues and lyrics by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and direction and production by West Pakistanis, A.J. In India, though, the film is withdrawn from the Mumbai Film Festival in 2016 because, no surprises, it's a Pakistani film. Jago Hua Savera reminds many of us of Ritwik Ghatak's Titash Ekti Nodir Naam.

Source: The Telegraph April 09, 2018 18:22 UTC