Death As Agency - Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi & Paglait A Comparative Analysis
Death, in Hindi cinema, has been used as highly dramatized melodrama inviting the audience to pull out their handkerchiefs and cry along with the mourners in the film.
At times, the melodrama is exaggerated to extremes even in an otherwise classic film like
Guide directed by Vijay Anand, or, in Bimal Roy’s
Devdas which however, was a faithful translation of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee’s literary classic.
Exaggerated melodrama has become archival in very significant films such as
Sholay, Deewar, Fanaa, Baazigar, Darr, and many more films much to the detriment of the beauty of the films but very fruitful for the box office.