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Hum Tum Aur Woh (1938)

Mehboob Khan

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  • Release Date1938
  • GenreDrama
  • FormatB/W
  • LanguageHindi
  • Run Time157 min
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LOVE enters everyone's life but once. Once it enters, it remains imbedded in the heart, never to be erased here on hereafter. To love is the right of everyone, but to achieve the object of one's love is not in one's own hands. All those who have felt the pangs of true love realise at one time or the other the omnipresence of a divine power which sanctions or rejects human desires. In this realisation all sanctions or rejects human desires. In this realisation all desires and passions of mere man dwindle into insignificance. The young collegians are no exception to this common rule. Love is the same whether with the high born or the low born, literate or the illiterate.

The true life story of 3 collegians adapted to the screen in this picture, presents one of the strangest love stories ever told. The intensity with which these three loved and lived led them on to an eternal love tangle, which was destined to be untangled only by the intervention of the Divine Power. Here is a story, therefore, the ending of which none can guess- Follow it closely.

A social drama was held in the college to which Moti invited his wealthy friend Rajgir. Rajgir was once a collegian, but thinking college was not a fit place to spend is millions, had left only a short time before. He now finds a new 'interest' in the company of Leela and Bina, and enrolls as a student once again. He gives a party to all his friends to celebrate his re-entry to the college. Rajgir is attracted by Leela and falls in love with her. The gathering consists of purely young persons and naturally the conversation turns to such topics as matrimony, future, etc. Bina mischievously suggests Leela's hand in marriage to Moti and Advani following the spirit joins the hands of these two. Leela feels a thrill pass through her whole being and suddenly realises that she is desperately love with Moti. She argues within herself that even if Moti does not love her, the sacred nobility of her love to whom ought to induce him to love her. From that moment onwards she enthrones Moti in her heart as her lawful husband.

Moti and Bina find Leela's room a very convenient place for meeting. Leela's love for Moti prompts her to give this facility to the lovers.

At one weak moment, Leela's passion for Moti got the better of her nobler self and one evening she manipulates to get Moti alone in her room. Moti is surprised at the advances of Leela and repels with all the courage of a noble youth. But goaded by her own conviction that she was doing nothing sinful as her heart had already accepted Moti as her husband, Leela is determined to achieve her object. Moti is so exhausted with his own feelings and the absurdity of Leela's arguments that he sinks down almost fainted. He, however, finds himself still in Leela's room the next morning.

With the break of dawn he rushes out like a madman and confides the whole affair to his beloved Bina. Bina's heart breaks and asks Moti to forget her forever, while Leela is happy at the fulfillment of her heart's desire.

Rajgir advances his love to Leela and asks her to marry him. But Leela refuses. Leela become a mother and her father accuses her of sin. He asks her to either get Moti to marry her or to commit suicide. But Leela upholds the sanctity of her union with Moti and argues that the sanction of her heart was greater than the sanction of society.  She tries all possible means to see Moti, to persuade him to acknowledge her for the sake of the child, but Moti refuses to see her. Meanwhile Bina is ill and is taken by her father to a village. Bina's  father who had already promised Bina' had in marriage to a wealthy youth, reports to Moti that Bina was dead. Leela finds the whole world against her but takes her stand refusing to acknowledge her love for Moti as sin.

Even Moti's human sympathy towards Leela turns into hatred. Taking Bina to be dead, his whole self being consumed by Leela's attitude towards him, Moti finds himself devoid of all hopes in life.

But what did Moti do?
What happened to Bina and her unflinching love for Moti?
What was the solution for Leela's problems?
Whose love was nobler and more sacred, Bina's or Leela's?
Were these cultured persons each propounding his own theory on the philosophy of life right in their views?

All this is for you to see and judge. After seeing the picture, perhaps you will get some food for thought and discussion with your friends.

[From the official press booklet]
 

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