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12 Nov, 2021

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Kathputli (1957)

Amiya Chakraborty , Nitin Bose

Release Date1957
GenreDrama
FormatB-W
LanguageHindi
Run Time131 min
Length4402.23 meters
Number of Reels17
Gauge35 mm
Censor RatingU
Censor Certificate Number89767
Certificate Date05/03/1979 (Re-certification)
Shooting LocationFamous Cine Laboratory & Studios, Mahalaxmi, Bombay

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Are we puppets in the hands of fate? Have we no free-will? Are we the victims of circumstances? There are big questions and let's leave them to metaphysicians. We are interested in small things which add up to make life. Our little love, little hopes, little jealousies of little darlings who live in their own little worlds, building castles in their dreams and striving to live happily forever afterwards in them.

Pushpa, a sweet young thing, lived to love inanimate puppets spring to life at the hands of the handsome puppeteer Shivraj. But the hand that made puppets dance and jump, skid and fight, make love and romance, got crippled in an accident. Shivraj shed silent tears and Pushpa cried. Puppets lay limp and dead but Pushpa's heart-stings were touched. Her pity turned to love and she found a new life surge in her. She loved to dance and sing in her newfound joy. Her devotion to her love symbolised in her dance did not go un-noticed by the famous impresario Loknath. She found herself on the stage and soon after that in the lime light.

She married Shivraj, made a small happy home for him and bore him a child. But Shivraj didn't enjoy his life in the back-seat of Pushpa's drive to fame. He found fault with her for no reason and saw red where it didn't exist. His feeling of humiliation gave way to jealousy and frustration. He was driven to deserting her by a hand he didn't discern that was of the green-eyed monster of jealousy.

Her little hopes, her fond love, her child were all beyond her reach now. But Loknath, the man who brought her into limelight, helped her find Shivraj and her child. Shivraj refused to come back to her, to what he thought to be her pride in her pettiness. On the stage, it was never the same again. Everything had changed. That's how she felt though if the truth be told things did shape differently.
Perhaps they were all victims of circumstances; Pushpa, Shivraj, the little child and Loknath. So are we-but do our circumstances make us face helplessly the situations that Pushpa had before her or Shivraj!

Does Loknath's struggle to find a solution succeeding in bringing joy where there were tears, hope in despair, light in darkness?
See 'Kath Putli' and find out for yourself.

[From the official press booklet]