1963 · drama · hindi
Bandini
Directed by Bimal Roy2h 37m1963
In 1930s British-ruled Bengal, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convicted murderer with past connections to a freedom fighter.
Our read: Bandini (1963) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · hindi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / hindi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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