Deep Jweley Jai (1959) User Reviews

A heartbreaker & tearjerker par excellence!!!

[samratrc1417 · 10/10 · 10 July 2009]

If you are a Hindi movie buff you will most probably have watched 'Khamoshi'. In case you didn't know, this is the movie 'khamoshi' was inspired from. In all fairness both are excellent!I challenge anybody (not those without a heart and a soul)to watch this and not cry!!It will take some doing! Suchitra Sen plays a nurse in an mental asylum who falls for her patient. That tells you that everything doesn't end up 'happily everafter' for her.Man!How much pain can one take! Suchitra as usual is simply superb. You should see her expressions when the song 'Ei raat tomar amar' plays. That says it all! I had tears in my eyes.Anil Chatterjee as the patient is also great. Both movies had excellent soundtracks. Again Hemanta Mukherjee (aka Hemant Kumar in bollywood)at his melodious best. I guarantee you'll hum these for a while after the movie.

As the expression goes 'They don't make them as they used to. Not anymore!'I wish movies like these were made now but i cant see anyone good enough to play these characters. You need a depth in your soul to penetrate the complexity of the characters but i guess nobody is that deep anymore.

Watch this movie. Its an unforgettable experience!

Deromanticising Romance

[saptarshichat · 10/10 · 7 April 2011]

The name of the movie draws from a short story of the famous Bengali novelist Asutosh Mukhopadhya meaning "Lighting the Lamp".Suchitra Sen plays the role of Radha a nurse,"used" to treat psychological patients by playing the role of both their mother and/or fiancé.This repeated "arranged" experiments of love uses her just as a tool to treat the patients ignoring the fact she's a human being herself with normal emotions.Her immense devotion,selfless sacrifice of her emotions brings light to the lives of her patients(all "wounded" in love) , but throws Radha into psychological crisis.Suchitra Sen plays one of the best performances of her life , etching out each minute trauma and pain she faces with this experiments of faking love.Pahari Sanyal,the Doctor who theorize these experiments (with striking resemblance to Freud)crafts another brilliant performance in the movie.The movie introspects the inner aspects of love,it's expectations and the complexities arising from it.One of the rare movies questing about the psychological aspects of love.Seldom,in the history of literature and movie making ,the expectations and aspirations of a nurse,who devotes herself to heal the needy, was this sincerely brought into focus.

The Music will Burn Bright in Memory!

[sumankumarganguly-454-264875 · 6/10 · 12 March 2014]

I have never been a fan of the typical romantic family dramas churned out by Tollywood in the old times. As a result, this film comes as a welcome change.

Based on Ashapurna Debi's 'Nurse Mitra', this story of a nurse endowed with the responsibility of curing people who have been rendered heart-broken in love, is a very fresh and novel concept. Suchitra Sen does full justice to the character and carries the entire film on her shoulders alone. But Basanta Chowdhury as the mentally disturbed patient is not fully convincing (Rajesh Khanna was far better in the Hindi remake 'Khamoshi'). In fact it's Pahari Sanyal who emerges as the main lead hero of the film. His descriptions of the psychological buildup of a mental patient were quite enlightening. Tulsi Chakraborty is hilarious in his cameo. But Anil Chatterjee is wasted in a minor appearance who inexplicably vanishes completely in the 2nd half.

The music by Hemanta Mukherjee is simply out of the world! Besides a haunting theme track, the film boasts of one of the most romantic songs ever filmed in Indian cinema: 'Ei Raat Tomar Aamar'. With the singer standing with his back to the camera and gazing at a moonlit star- filled sky; it creates one of the most charming cinematic impact ever experienced by me. Be it the tune, setting, instruments, voice, lyrics or expressions; the two and half minutes of the song are a cut above the rest of the film and is easily the highlight of the movie!

But the film tends to drag and get monotonous towards the end. The climax twist appears to be a bit too sudden. As I had seen the Hindi- version 'Khamoshi' before, it gave a sense of predictability to the plot. But still, this is certainly not at the level of Asit Sen's 'Uttor Falguni'. Although if one is simply a fan of acting, then Mrs. Sen won't give any chance for complaints. But unfortunately, a more eventful script was needed to prevent it from being just a one-time watch...